The End of Mechanics: Smart Materials and Adaptability
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Winter, 2006
http://www.robotecture.com/endofmechanics
Units: 2.0: Lecture / Location: F 10-12am, Building 3 Room 110
Instructor: Michael Fox (mafox@foxlin.com or michaelfox@csupomona.edu)

Exercise_05: Materials Documentation
Due Friday, 02/10

The exercise will be assessed on the following criteria:

60% Content
30% Presentation
10% Timeliness

Part1: Material Study
Document the following:

Research:
The name of the product
The type of the product (AIA MasterFormat material classification – metal, glass, plastic etc. )
The reference to the product (weblink or book)
A brief text summary of the product (200 words or less)
Photos of the product
Photos of the product in various architectural applications
Design:
A brief text summary in your own words of how and why the material is used in your application (200 words or less)
Two images of your application in your collective office design

Presentation:
You can begin to gather the above information.
A format will be provided for you next week when I return to fill in so that it is all standardized.
Your two application images need not be larger than 600 x 600 pixels.
Your two application images must clearly convey how the material is used in your application. I suggest you make a small 3-d model.

Hardcopy Resources: (most useful are in bold italics)
Amato, Ivan. Stuff. Harper Collins, 1997.
Ed. Bechthold, Griggs, Schodek and Steinberg, New Technologies in Architecture, (Boston, 2000)
Brownell, Blaine. Transmaterial. Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
Gordon, J. E. The New Science of Strong Materials. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1984. Kennedy, Sheila. KVA: Material Misuse. London: Architectural Association, 2001.
Lupton, Ellen. Skin. London: Laurence King, 2002.
Lavin, Sylvia. “Plasticity at Work”. Mood River (organized by Jeffrey Kipnis and Annetta Massie). Wexner Center, 2002.
Paola Antonelli, “Introduction,” from Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design, (New York, 1995)
Picon, Antoine. “Architecture and The Virtual: Towards a New Materiality”. Praxis 06, 2005.
Toshiko Mori, Immaterial/ Ultramaterial: architecture, design, and materials, ed. Toshiko Mori (New York, 2002)

Online:
The transmaterial pdf is very useful and has been uploaded to:
http://www.robotecture.com/tm

The lecture or precedent in Interactive Environments is here:
http://robotecture.com/ie/IE.html