Artist, technician and DIY enthusiast David Moises (born 1973) is fascinated by mechanical devices, which he analyses, takes apart and reassembles in unexpected ways. Stuff Works demonstrates exactly how the artist's creations function, through illustrations and inventions inspired by the handyman magazine Hobby.

The rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies enables a radical paradigm shift in the construction of heat exchangers. In place of a layout limited to the use of planar or tubular starting materials, heat exchangers can now be optimized, reflecting their function and application in a particular environment. The complexity of form is no longer a restriction but a quality. Instead of brazing elements, resulting in rather inflexible standard components prone to leakages, with AM, we finally can create seamless integrated and custom solutions from monolithic material. To address AM for heat exchangers we both focus on the processes, materials, and connections as well as on the construction abilities within certain modeling and simulation tools. AM is not the total loss of restrictions. Depending on the processes used, delicate constraints have to be considered. But on the other hand, we can access materials, which can operate in a much wider heat range. It is evident that conventional modeling techniques cannot match the requirements of a flexible and adaptive form finding. Instead, we exploit biomimetic and mathematical approaches with parametric modeling. This results in unseen configurations and pushes the limits of how we should think about heat exchangers today.

In den letzten Jahren hat sich das Formenrepertoire der Architektur mit der Verwendung geometrisch komplexer Formen stark erweitert. F r die 3-D-Modellierung eignet sich das urspr nglich f r das Design von Schiffen, Schmuck und Konsumg tern konzipierte Programm Rhinoceros, denn es zeigt auch im architektonischen Kontext seine St rken. Der Autor macht Leser schrittweise mit dem Programm vertraut und erl utert die Funktionen anhand kleiner Entwurfsaufgaben von der Formfindung bis zu Umsetzung im Modellbau mit Rapid Prototyping oder Laserschneiden.