Description
What if structures may build themselves or adapt to fluctuating environments? Skylar Tibbits, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab within the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA, crosses the bounds between architecture, biology, materials science and the humanities, to envision a world where subject matter components can self-assemble to offer adapting structures and optimized fabrication solutions. The book examines the 3 main ingredients for self-assembly, includes interviews with practitioners involved within the work and presents research projects related to those topics to offer a whole first take a look at exciting future technologies in construction and self-transforming subject matter products.