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Article
Aggregates
Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008
DOI: 10.1002/ad.645
Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Issue
Architectural Design
Special Issue: Versatility and Vicissitude
Volume 78, Issue 2, pages 80–87, March/April 2008
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How to Cite
Hensel, M. and Menges, A. (2008), Aggregates. Archit Design, 78: 80–87. doi: 10.1002/ad.645
Publication History
- Issue published online: 6 MAR 2008
- Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008
- Abstract
- Cited By
Keywords:
- Paul Valéry, Idée Fixe: The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, 1957;
- Department of Form Generation and Materialism;
- HfG in Offenbach;
- The Lounge Landscape and Intensifier 01 and 02 projects;
- Offenbach surfaces;
- 3-D spacer textile;
- glass-fibre bands;
- self-supporting exoskeletons;
- Intensifier 01;
- Nico Reinhardt, Intensifier 01, Department of Form Generation and Materialisation (Achim Menges), Hochschule für Gestaltung (Hfg), Offenbach, Germany, 2006-07;
- Form-finding;
- local manipulations;
- 3-D textile glass-fibre composite surfaces;
- three-dimensional spacer textile;
- glass-fibre-reinforced skin;
- full-scale prototypes;
- Intensifier 02;
- Elena Burggraf, Department of Form Generation and Materialisation (Achim Menges), HfG, Offenbach, 2006-07;
- the formative capacity of topological exactitude;
- glass-fibre band;
- local curvature;
- application of resin and related adhesive forces;
- Lounge Landscape;
- Nicola Burggraf, Susanne Hoffman, Steffen Reichert, Nico Reinhardt, Yanbo Xu, Department of Form Generation and Materialisation (Achim Menges), HfG, Offenbach, 2007;
- The Lounge Landscape;
- seating furniture;
- novel composite material system;
- 3-D spacer textile;
- stressed glass-fibre skin;
- seamless double-curves surfaces;
- mother mould;
- furniture morphologies;
- material specific and stackable;
- glossy, jet-black paint;
- body-surface interaction;
- animated illumination;
- advanced fibre-composite materials;
- open-ended computing protocols
Abstract
In their bound form, aggregates are by far the most ubiquitous materials in architectural construction. However, there are few precedents for using loose aggregates in any significant way, despite their ability to swiftly interact with a given environment. Michael Hensel and Achim Menges argue for a better understanding of the behaviour of such materials in order that they can be used in their loose form. Aggregates are formed not through the connection of elements with joints or a binding matrix, but through the loose accumulation of separate elements. This approach therefore requires a radical departure from architectural design based on assemblies and assembly processes. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.