<p>The approach of "Informing Architecture by Materiality" opens the way to an innovative use of materials in the design professions. Taking material qualities and properties such as texture, elasticity, transparency and fluidity as a point of departure, the concept described and employed here transcends the conventional definitions of building materials. Instead, the focus is on a multitude of material operations, like folding and bending, carving and cutting, weaving and knitting, mirroring and screening. The featured design strategies and methods address established and "new" materials alike. They are applied both to the scale of the detail and the entire building. The examples comprise prototype structures as well as large building projects. Nine chapters deal with surfaces and layers, joints and juctions, weaving and texturing, nanoscale transformations, responsiveness, the integration of ephemeral factors like wind and light as well as material collections providing professional resources. Written by reknowned experts in this field, the book features many examples from international contemporary architecture. The introductory part provides the conceptual background, while a final chapter describes consequences for pressing issues of today, like sustainability or life cycle assessment.</p>

Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality

Arts & Photography

Thomas Schröpfer

Architecture

Birkhäuser Architecture

Ecological Urban Architecture identifies fields in which architects and urban designers can use their creative skills and methods to achieve sustainable results on the urban scale. Leading experts from around the world provide in-depth information on the complexity of ecological design in urban environments in response to four themes for creating qualitive outcomes: Materialize, Mobilize, Simulate, Transform. Contributors to the book include Achim Menges (Stuttgart University Institute for Computational Design), Federico Parolotto (Mobility in Chain), Eduardo Rico (Groundlab London), Sheila Kennedy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Matthias Sauerbruch (Sauerbruch Hutton). Ecological Urban Architecture provides in-depth information on the complexity of eco-design in urban environments and emphasizes the need for new sensibilities in disciplinary and trans-disciplinary thinking processes.

Ecological Urban Architecture: Qualitative Approaches to Sustainability

Science & Math

Technology

Birkhauser

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