Biomimicry with Steel Sheets: Designing "DNA" Into Materials Can Create Architecture that Constructs Itself
This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself."
X-POD 138 pavilion structure, currently installed at the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York. Image Courtesy of Haresh Lalvani
This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself."It?s the holy grail for any biomimicry design futurist: buildings and structures that use generative geometry to assemble and repair themselves, grow, and evolve all on their own. Buildings that grow like trees, assembling their matter through something like genomic instructions encoded in the material itself.To get there, architecture alone won?t cut it. And as such, one designer, Haresh Lalvani, is among the most successful at researching this fundamental revision of architecture and fabrication. (Or is it ?creation and evolution?") He employs a wildly interdisciplinary range of tools to further this inquiry: biology; mathematics; computer science; and, most notably, art.
Xurf (eXpanded sURFaces), a new invention using rotating platelets to self-rigidize curved surfaces. Image Courtesy of Haresh Lalvani
The cofounder of the Pratt Institute Center for Experimental Structures, Lalvani designs systems in which ?matter will start enco...
X-POD 138 pavilion structure, currently installed at the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York. Image Courtesy of Haresh Lalvani
This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself."It?s the holy grail for any biomimicry design futurist: buildings and structures that use generative geometry to assemble and repair themselves, grow, and evolve all on their own. Buildings that grow like trees, assembling their matter through something like genomic instructions encoded in the material itself.To get there, architecture alone won?t cut it. And as such, one designer, Haresh Lalvani, is among the most successful at researching this fundamental revision of architecture and fabrication. (Or is it ?creation and evolution?") He employs a wildly interdisciplinary range of tools to further this inquiry: biology; mathematics; computer science; and, most notably, art.
Xurf (eXpanded sURFaces), a new invention using rotating platelets to self-rigidize curved surfaces. Image Courtesy of Haresh Lalvani
The cofounder of the Pratt Institute Center for Experimental Structures, Lalvani designs systems in which ?matter will start enco...
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