Aleatory Construction Based on Jamming: Stability Through Self‐Confinement. (July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Murphy, Kieran; Roth, Leah; Peterman, Dan; Jaeger, Heinrich
• Other Names: Tibbits Skylar guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 87:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 74
• Page End: 81
• Publication Date: 2017-07
• Subjects: JaegerLab -- University of Chicago -- James Franck Institute -- Kieran Murphy -- Leah Roth -- Dan Peterman -- Heinrich Jaeger -- Project Z‐Form -- Experimental Station/Peterman Studio -- Chicago -- Herzog & de Meuron -- Dominus Winery -- Napa Valley -- California -- Ulrick Knaak -- Tillman Klein -- Marcel Bilow -- Architectural Engineering and Technology -- Delft University of Technology -- Delft -- the Netherlands -- Deflateables project -- Gramazio Kohler Research -- MIT Self‐Assembly Lab -- Chicago Architecture Biennial -- Karola Dierichs -- Achim Menges -- Institute for Computational Design -- University of Stuttgart -- Dan Peterman -- University of Illinois; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2198
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : The physical process of jamming could take architectural sustainability/recyclability to a whole new level. It involves achieving structural rigidity through the crowding of particles within a confined space, rather than by permanent bonding. Project Z‐Form, a collaboration between a team of physicists from the JaegerLab at the University of Chicago – including PhD students Kieran Murphy and Leah Roth and professor Heinrich Jaeger – and artist Dan Peterman, sets out to develop a pourable material that not only self‐supports but can also bear loads. Here they explain the project and the concepts behind it.