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What if structures could build themselves or adapt to fluctuating
environments? Skylar Tibbits, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab in
the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA, crosses the
boundaries between architecture, biology, materials science and the
arts, to envision a world where material components can
self-assemble to provide adapting structures and optimized
fabrication solutions. The book examines the three main ingredients
for self-assembly, includes interviews with practitioners involved
in the work and presents research projects related to these topics
to provide a complete first look at exciting future technologies in
construction and self-transforming material products.
What if structures could build themselves or adapt to fluctuating
environments? Skylar Tibbits, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab in
the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA, crosses the
boundaries between architecture, biology, materials science and the
arts, to envision a world where material components can
self-assemble to provide adapting structures and optimized
fabrication solutions. The book examines the three main ingredients
for self-assembly, includes interviews with practitioners involved
in the work and presents research projects related to these topics
to provide a complete first look at exciting future technologies in
construction and self-transforming material products.
The first book on active matter, an emerging field focused on
programming physical materials to assemble themselves, transform
autonomously, and react to information. The past few decades
brought a revolution in computer software and hardware; today we
are on the cusp of a materials revolution. If yesterday we
programmed computers and other machines, today we program matter
itself. This has created new capabilities in design, computing, and
fabrication, which allow us to program proteins and bacteria, to
generate self-transforming wood products and architectural details,
and to create clothing from "intelligent textiles" that grow
themselves. This book offers essays and sample projects from the
front lines of the emerging field of active matter. Active matter
and programmable materials are at the intersection of science, art,
design, and engineering, with applications in fields from biology
and computer science to architecture and fashion. These essays
contextualize current work and explore recent research. Sample
projects, generously illustrated in color, show the range of
possibilities envisioned by their makers. Contributors explore the
design of active material at scales from nano to micro, kilo, and
even planetary. They investigate processes of self-assembly at a
microscopic level; test new materials that can sense and actuate
themselves; and examine the potential of active matter in the built
environment and in living and artificial systems. Active Matter is
an essential guide to a field that could shape the future of
design.
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