Versatility and Vicissitude: Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design

01 Introduction

Versatility & Vicissitude: An Introduction to Performance in Morpho-Ecological Design

Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

02 Form, Force and Structure: A Brief History

Professor Remo Pedreschi

03 Form, Force, Performance: Multi-Parametric Structural Design

Professor Klaus Bollinger, Professor Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann

04 Metabolism and Morphology

Michael Weinstock

05 Material Performance

Michael Hensel, Defne Sunguroglu and Achim Menges

06 Manufacturing Performance

Achim Menges

07 Performance-Oriented Design: Precursors and Potentials

Michael Hensel

08 Inclusive Performance: Efficiency Versus Effectiveness – Towards a Morpho-Ecological Approach for Design

Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

09 Complex Brick Assemblies

Defne Sunguroglu

10 Membrane Spaces

Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

11 Aggregates

Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

12 Environmental Intensifiers

Aleksandra Jaeschke

13 Engineering Ecologies

Peter Trummer

14 Designing Morpho-Ecologies: Versatility and Vicissitude of Heterogeneous Space

Michael Hensel and Achim Menges

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01 Interior Eye

Craftsteak, New York

Jayne Merkel

02 Building Profile

Public Toilet, Gravesend

David Littlefield

03 Practice Profile

m3architecture

Mark Taylor

04 Unit Factor

Renewable Types and the Urban Plan

Christopher Lee and Sam Jacoby

05 Spiller’s Bits

In Praise of the Blur

Neil Spiller

06 Yeang’s Eco-Files

Recharging your Eco-Batteries

Ken Yeang

07 McLean’s Nuggets

Will McLean

08 Userscape

The Use of the cellular and New Digital Mapping

Valentina Croci

09 Site Lines

Making Waves: East Beach Café

Howard Watson