Performative Wood: Physically Programming the Responsive Architecture of the HygroScope and HygroSkin Projects

• Autores: Achim Menges, Steffen Reichert
• Localización: Architectural design, ISSN 0003-8504, Vol. 85, Nº. 5, 2015, págs. 66-73
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In today's race for ever more ‘intelligent’ materials, wood, with its long association with craft and vernacular building traditions, is all too often overlooked. But upon closer examination it reveals a spectrum of properties that constitute a smart rather than an outdated material. Based on its moisture-sensitive characteristics, Guest-Editor Achim Menges, Director of the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart, and Steffen Reichert, Research Associate at the ICD, have developed a number of groundbreaking weather-responsive systems. These integrate the function of sensor, motor and responsive components in strikingly simple wood elements. They demonstrate the material's capacity to replace machines and to unfold a truly ecologically embedded architecture by tapping into the abundant flows and energies of the environment.