> >Structural engineering, prompted by advances inmechanics and computing as well as design principles such as sustainability andresilience, is evolving towards adaptive structures. Adaptive structures arestructures that use active components to change shape and properties inresponse to their environment and/or to their users’ desires. Form-foundstructures, such as tensegrity and shell structures, can be designed toaccommodate such changes within their structural behavior. Dialectic formfinding is an extension of the traditional form-finding process integratingperformance-related constraints and criteria in the search of a geometry instatic equilibrium. Two examples of dialectic form-found structurallyintegrated adaptive structures are presented. The first example is ashape-shifting tensegrity-inspired structure, while the second example is ashape-shifting shell structure. Both systems are designed to explore elasticdeformations for shape changes reducing actuation requirements and highlightingthe potential of the proposed method.
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