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Environmental Intensifiers

  1. Aleksandra Jaeschke

Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ad.646

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Architectural Design

Architectural Design

Special Issue: Versatility and Vicissitude

Volume 78, Issue 2, pages 88–95, March/April 2008

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Jaeschke, A. (2008), Environmental Intensifiers. Archit Design, 78: 88–95. doi: 10.1002/ad.646

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  1. Issue published online: 6 MAR 2008
  2. Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

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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

Fibre-reinforced composite materials have significant potential in performance-oriented design. Composites enable seamless transitions between material make-up, characteristics and effects, and fibre directionality can yield variable context-specific behaviour. Such materials are the closest to those in living nature and could be further developed to mimic or optimise natural processes. Aleksandra Jaeschke examines developments in this field at the Department of Form Generation and Materialisation at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Offenbach, Germany, led by Achim Menges. She also looks at the specific ways in which integrated form-generation and materialisation are being used in design that engages with composites. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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