HYGROSCOPE – METEOROSENSITIVE MORPHOLOGY Achim Menges in collaboration with Steffen Reichert, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2012 The project explores a novel mode of responsive architecture based on the combination of material inherent behaviour and...
Differentiated Tensile Wood Laminate Morphologies This project investigates a component-based wood-laminate material system which organizes itself as a form-active tensile structure with differentiated surface articulation. This material system functions, in concept,...
Hyper-Toroidal Deep Surface Prototype This project investigates computational design strategies for differentiated, cell-based membrane morpholgies that describe a continuous surface with variable cylindrical apertures. The tensioned mesh and anchoring location serve...
Perforated Deep Surface Prototype This project investigates computational design strategies for individual cells, describing a continuous surface with variable cylindrical apertures. The tensioned mesh and anchoring location serve to contort the overall geometry....
Aggregated Lamination One of wood’s defining characteristics is its anisotropy resulting from its fibrous structure. Many manufacturing methods and engineering processes in wood lamination have tried to overcome this inherent natural quality, attempting to create a...
Kerf-Based Complex Wood Systems This research projected investigated complex wood systems constructed from steamed, free formed wooded slats and formed through strategic accumulative local weakening and disruption of fiber continuity by kerfing. Thus the project aimed...
