Variable-modulus and Active Material Systems

2011

This paper presents continuing research on responsive systems in architecture; the ability of architectural systems to change certain properties in response to their surrounding environmental pressures. While doing so, it shifts from current and past examples of mechanical approaches of adaptation, towards biological paradigms of seamless material integration. Looking at biological mechanisms of growth and focusing on the material make-up behind them, the research proposes the exploration of material systems in a two-fold interrelated manner: firstly, through passive material systems of variable elasticity, and secondly through the embedment of smart materials with shape-changing properties. The combination of the two is aiming at architectural systems of functional versatility.Through an interdisciplinary approach, the paper examines the following questions: Is it possible to envisage structures that share the principles of adaptation and response of living organisms? What are the ...

2020

Design and Nature V, 2010

2013

This ongoing investigation aims to learn from nature novel material organizations and structural systems in order to develop innovative architectural system. We developed a multidisciplinary approach, using scientific analysis and design research and prototyping. We focus on the study of a “living fossil” fish, whose armor system is so efficient it has remained almost unchanged for millions of years. We investigate its morphological characteristics, its structural properties, the assembly mechanisms and the underlying material properties in order to derive new principles to design new enhanced structural systems. We use micro computerized tomography and scanning electron microscopy to observe microstructures, parametric design to reconstruct the data into digital models and then several 3D printing technologies to prototype systems with high flexibility and adaptive capabilities, proposing new gradual material interfaces and transitions to embed performative capabilities and multifu...

Composites and Their Applications, 2012

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2013

Architectural Science Review, 2020

This paper explores the potential for new hybrid composite material applications in Architecture by rethinking the role of fabrication in the process of form-generation. Our work presents the development of composite materials system consisting of two flexible materials, which, when acting together, allow for variable states of stiffness and gain structural capacity through the process of fabrication. This morphogenetic act occurs at the moment of making as a result of the symbiotic interaction between the two materials, their geometric arrangement and the fabrication process. Our aim is to investigate a novel approach for integrated design, where the fabrication process of a composite material actuates and enhances material performance. Our findings include a formal vocabulary of initial, pre-stretched geometries and their post-stretched counterpart, as well as comparisons between physical experiments and digital simulations of such composites.

Digital Transformation of the Design, Construction and Management Processes of the Built Environment, 2019

In: A. Özdizbay - İ. Dağlı (Eds.) Pamphylia: Bereketli Ovada Halkların Ahengi = Harmony of the Peoples on the Fertile Plain, 2024

This paper aims to provide a thematic and comprehensive scientific overview of the ancient city of Aspendos.