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"Next Generation" 1st prize: Microstructure research for building skins, Cambridge, USA

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3-D printed structurally- and environmentally-differentiated skin demonstrating the polyjet matrix technology.

Open-cells skin prototype.

Closed-cells skin prototype.

Curvature range in prototype.

Mold prototype for porous skin.

Composite porous mock-up.

Microstructural organizations.

Mechanically shaped carbon nanotube rib for varying the structural cross section in micro scale.

Growth control mechanisms.

Performance control mechanisms.

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Holcim Awards "Next Generation" 1st prize 2008 North America: Neri Oxman (right) and John Anastasios Hart.

Holcim Awards "Next Generation" 1st prize 2008 North America: Neri Oxman (right) and John Anastasios Hart.

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