Sixteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

This research transverses across the threshold of architecture into the realm of interdisciplinary integration between material science, design, and architecture. Responsive kinetic architecture is conventionally achieved through massive mechanical systems. A soft autonomous alternative to achieve such dynamic responses is through implementing shape changing materials where their intrinsic attributes enable them to alter their shape and exhibit dynamic immanent behavioural transformations induced by external stimuli. This paper proposes a design framework to design and develop a shape-changing material system within architectural applications. Such hybrid design framework is an offspring of amalgamating both, the conventional methodological design framework (MDF) and the responsive material systems’ aspects (RMA). Such hybrid design framework involves interdisciplinary collaboration between architects and material scientists specifically during the data collection phase and during testing and implementing the design.