ICD research associate Dylan Wood is an invited speaker and panelist on the topic of SMART MATERIALS FOR BETTER BUILDINGS at UK Construction Week, October 19 in Birmingham, UK.
Material Computation- Hyper Active Timber Surfaces
Timber is an inherently smart material used as a traditional building material across a vast array of applications. In addition, it also has the unique capacity to change-shape in response to changes in environmental conditions. This ability for the material to autonomously compute a change in shape combined with advances in material science and digital fabrication technology expose a new highly valuable function of wood as an even ‘smarter’ active, programmable, shape-changing material.
For more information, visit SMART MATERIALS FOR BETTER BUILDINGS -UK CONSTRUCTION WEEK 2016
Material Computation- Hyper Active Timber Surfaces
Timber is an inherently smart material used as a traditional building material across a vast array of applications. In addition, it also has the unique capacity to change-shape in response to changes in environmental conditions. This ability for the material to autonomously compute a change in shape combined with advances in material science and digital fabrication technology expose a new highly valuable function of wood as an even ‘smarter’ active, programmable, shape-changing material.
For more information, visit SMART MATERIALS FOR BETTER BUILDINGS -UK CONSTRUCTION WEEK 2016