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Research Question

Granular material in architecture

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Karola, D. Menges, A. "Towards an Aggregate Architecture: Designed Granular Systems as Programmable Matter in Architecture." 

Dierichs, K., Wood, D., Correa, D., Menges, A. “Smart Granular Materials: Prototypes for Hygroscopically Actuated Shape-Changing Particles”

Dierichs, Karola, and Achim Menges. "Granular Morphologies: Programming Material Behaviour with Designed Aggregates." 

Amira, A, R., Panagiotis, M. Magnetic Morphing

Ahlquist, Sean; McGee, Wes; Sharmin, Shahida. PneumaKnit: Actuated Architectures Through Wale- and Course-Wise Tubular Knit-Constrained Pneumatic Systems

El-Zanfaly, Dina. A Multisensory Computational Model for Human-Machine Making and Learning

Multi-Machine Fabrication

Freezing the Field

Heatherwick, Thomas. 2012. Thomas Heatherwick: making.

Neri Oxman, Jorge Duro-Royo, Steven Keating, Ben Peters and Elizabeth Tsai, TOWARDS ROBOTIC SWARM PRINTING

Menges, Achim. Material Performance : Fibrous Tectonics & Architectural Morphology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2016. 

Menges, Achim, ed. Material Synthesis : Fusing the Physical and the Computational. Architectural Design, Vol. 85, [no.] 05. London: John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

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