Aggregations Nature processes large amounts of potential construction material in the form of aggregates and organises them into dynamic morphologies. This research project aims at using these natural formative processes in order to actuate semi-natural dynamic...
Macro Fibres This project focused on the development of a generic shape- and fibre path-finding method for tow-steered composite structures by implementing the dynamic process of ‘adaptive growth’. Informing the design process by concepts such as adaptive response and...
Natural Granules Aggregations Based on research on natural aggregation undertaken by Frei Otto and his team at the Institute for Lightweight Structures in Stuttgart, and by Ralph A. Bagnold on the physics of blown sand and desert dunes, this research examined...
Porous Cast This research was fostered by an interest in the formation process of diatoms and radiolaria. Diatomes are unicellular or colonial algae. The cell is encased by a characteristic and highly differentiated cell wall, which is impregnated with silica....
Transitional Morphologies This project examined strategies and methods to incrementally change an assembly from a vector-active to a surface-active structural system. The transition from space-frame to surface morphology offers a range of performative capacities...
Membrane Arrays This research project aims at combining two form-active tension systems in an integral manner: a layered cable-net system and an array of membrane patches suspended between the layers of the cable-net. Both systems derive their specific articulation in...
