Material capacity: Embedded responsiveness

Architectural Design

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 52-59

  Menges, Achim ^a   Reichert, Steffen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

'matrix' of hemicelluloses and lignin; anisotropy; climate responsiveness; conifer cones; convertible building skin; Department for Form Generation and Materialisation; FAZ Summer Pavilion; HFG Offenbach; hygroscopicity; Institute of Computational Design (ICD), University of Stuttgart; Iva Kremsa, Kenzo Nakokoji and Etien Santiago, Wood and Hygroscopic Behaviour, Performative Wood Studio (Achim Menges), Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cambridge, Massachusetts; Pinophyta; Responsive Surface Structure; River Main; Steffen Reichert, Achim Menges and Florian Krampe, Hygroscopic Envelopes; veneer composite elements; Venus flytrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858679523     PISSN: 00038504     EISSN: 15542769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ad.1379     Document Type: Article

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