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- Scalable Porosity
- Adaptive Environments
- Kite-powered Design-to-Robotic-Production
- Fibrous Smart Material Topologies
- S.M.A.R.T Environments
- Robotic Building
- METABODY
- --- METABODY 1st EVENT
- --- METABODY 2nd EVENT
- --- Hyperbody update 02-2014
- --- Hyperbody Msc2 prototypes
- --- Ambiguous Topology 07-2014
- --- Reflectego & RoboZoo 07-2014
- --- The Hyper-loop
- --- Nervion, Textrinium & [S]caring-ami 07-2015
- SynSerre
- Robotic Architecture
- Automotive Complex
- Space-Customizer
- InteractiveWall
- iLITE
- Manhal Oasis Masterplan
- Muscle NSA
- protoCITY 2005+
- Virtual Operation Room
- Digital Pavilion
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- Projects
- Fibrous Smart Material Topologies
- Year
- 2016
- Project Leader from Hyperbody
- Dr. Nimish Biloria
- Project team members
- Ir. Javid Jooshesh, TU Delft Dr. Oscar Tomico Plasencia, TU Eindhoven Ir. Troy Nachtigall, TU Eindhoven Dr. Pramod Agrawal, U Twente Virginia Garcia, EURECAT
- Keywords
- Material engineering, Robotics, Micro-climate, Physiological support, Real-time interaction, Health and Energy, Multi-performative interiors, Scalability, Sustainable material usage
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The project is a truly inter-disciplinary initiative for the 'designed engineering' of heterogeneous fibres with variable material behaviors to create real-time responsive interior environments (furniture systems). These smart furniture systems will embody properties of real-time adaptive temperature control, real-time structural adaptability and real-time physiological support of the human body. These properties shall be fully self-regulated (devoid of external power sources) via engineering multi-layered fibre compositions, which, can sense the forces exerted by the human body and accordingly alter their physical properties. The scale of operation is chosen deliberately, considering the time-span of one year within which we will produce of a fully operational 1:1 physical prototype and scientific material-research guidelines. A research through design approach with 3 iterations: working on the yarn (U Twente + EURECAT), textile (TUE) and product (TUD) levels shall be adopted in this research. Each iteration will consist of the development of a prototype, the creation of future usage scenarios + business possibilities and a workshop to envision future requirements. In this project, prototypes and material output will be co-designed with material scientists, architects, textile and industrial designers and will be used to assess 1) design challenges, 2) business opportunities, and 3) technical feasibility of scalable multi-performative interior systems for applications such as healthcare and future office environments.