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Defining New Architectural Design Principles with ‘Living’ Inorganic Materials
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2011
DOI: 10.1002/ad.1210
Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Issue
Architectural Design
Special Issue: Protocell Architecture
Volume 81, Issue 2, pages 34–43, March/April 2011
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How to Cite
Cronin, L. (2011), Defining New Architectural Design Principles with ‘Living’ Inorganic Materials. Archit Design, 81: 34–43. doi: 10.1002/ad.1210
Publication History
- Issue published online: 17 MAR 2011
- Article first published online: 17 MAR 2011
- Abstract
- Cited By
Keywords:
- Leroy Cronin, Inorganic Cells, Cronin Group, University of Glasgow, 2010;
- morphogenically adaptable structures;
- metaspaces;
- nanoscale inorganic molecules;
- scalable new building materials;
- living technology;
- sustainable interactions;
- chemotactic responses and pathways;
- tubular architectures;
- 10 microns;
- self-growing architectures;
- ‘living technology’;
- Combined Tubular and Cellular Architectures;
- Outerspace and Innerspace at the Nanoscale;
- iChells;
- evolutionary ‘fitness parameter’;
- Self-healing buildings;
- peer-to-peer information storage;
- minimum chemical infrastructure
Abstract
At the University of Glasgow, Leroy Cronin is leading a group of scientists that are pioneering the engineering of a fundamentally new approach to building materials, which scales up from the nano scale to the micro. Cronin reflects on the possibilities of this new paradigm that gives inorganic cellular materials the potential to be ‘programmed’ to sense environmental changes, generate power, self-repair, shift properties and even compete with other building materials for resources. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.