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Now that science is advancing in a way that impacts building innovation from an architecture material standpoint, you as an architect should look to bridge the gap between selecting materials and designing materials to be used in your building designs. After all, this is a great way to increase your design abilities by finding more tailored and bottom-up ways to meet the global push toward more sustainable, healthy and happier designs for your occupants. Needless to say, being able to give input into your design in such a refined and detailed way will also help you stay on the cutting-edge.
That is why very specialized consultants are now surfacing to help designers work together with scientists to innovate new material compositions to be used in all kinds of products. Just imagine if you as an architect could specify a very unique and personalized material as you are working on a particular aspect of your building.
If you stop to think about the possibilities here, you might begin to realize that you can create some very exciting effects by changing the qualities of many materials that we know today — think about giving the material of your choosing different colors, transparencies, temperatures, textures and so much more. In fact, if you look around, you will see signs that materials scientists are taking action — as can be evidenced in a recent article I read in SEED Magazine this month.
Designing Happy Spaces from the Bottom-Up: Material Composition
Specifically, the article entitled Living in a Material World, shows an entire library where new innovative material compositions are not only researched and cataloged, but are also judged for competitions. This, in turn, serves to inherently push the trend towards Read more
