Smart Materials and Technologies in Architecture - Addington

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Résumé :
Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new smart or intelligent materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems in building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diverse but largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access to information about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies. Two of the leading experts in this field - Addington and Schodek - have solved this problem by incorporating all the relevant information of all the latest technologies available to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials by describing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest how these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design goals. Here, the wealth of technical understanding already available in the materials science and engineering literature is at last made accessible to a design audience....

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Chapter 1: Materials in Architecture and design Chapter 2: Fundamental Characterization of Materials Chapter 3: Energy Phenomena and environments Chapter 4: Types and Characteristics of Smart Materials Chapter 5: Elements and Control Systems Chapter 6: Smart Products Chapter 7: Smart Components, Assemblies and Systems in Architecture Chapter 8: Smart Environments Chapter 9: Revisiting the Design Context Bibliography Glossary Index...

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Michelle Addington is the Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design at Yale University.

Daniel L. Schodek is the Kumagai Research Professor of Architectural Technology at the Harvard Design School, where he taught from 1969 until 2008.