BRANCHING + SWARMING IN NATURE
The basic materials of biology have much lower densities than most engineering materials. They are successful not so much because of what they are but because of how they are put together. -Michael Hensel SKYLINE INTERSTATE BRIDGES EXISTING BRIDGE
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The mechanical appearance and behavior of steel, glass, sheet metal, and fasteners is replaced with a new language of blending based on compositing synthetic and biological materials, not in layers but in new molecular arrangements. The combinatorial range of capacities and aesthetics of polymers, resins, rubbers, silicone, cartilage, and cuticle puts into question the tired frame-and-infill model of design, which is based on extreme disparity of material capacities within hierarchical assemblies.