#granular_structures

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Vibrant Formations

object created by material behavior

Dynamic properties of materials can be used for automated object assemblies. While put into a dynamic environment, single geometries will interlock and create new objects that act differently than the original ones.

Displaced objects before the vibrations started.

In the vibrations process, the single spirals move closer to each other in specific areas defined by material properties and the interactions of grains with the surrounding environment and objects.

Eventually, the spirals start to interlock into each other, creating new objects of higher order.

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Granular Vibrations to Vibrant Formations

What if we introduce novel geometry into existing material systems?

Granular Vibrations revealed underlying principles hidden beneath the forms formed by granular materials. What happens if we exchange the existing material principles with fabricated geometries? For thes purpose, two different geometries were introduced: the lock and the disruptor. Their role is to force or to suppress the communication between single particles in the mixture.

The geometries were first digitally tested in virtual dynamic simulations, later than fabricated and tested in real dynamic environment.

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Digital simulations of the Granulars

Several images from the digital simulation of granular segregation.

basic segregation

two material segregation

multi level segregation

cubic segregation

cubic segregation with two materials

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Detailed images of granulars

Zooming shows new texture qualities and gradients in the previous material experiments

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Virtual Composites exhibited!

The output of the research project was presented at the Academic Platform exhibition in Prague

Other projects are part of academic researches in Barcelona, Copenhagen,  Prague, Stuttgart, Vienna and Zürich.

Photos  © Peter Fabo

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Granular Vibrations

A video describing the process of vibrating the grains.

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The granular objects

The melted granular objects got additional texturing by salt. Focusing on the detail reveals new qualities - vertical organization, different levels of material storage and unique agent-like properties.

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The machine used to shake the materials granules.