Bio-Mimiking Facade

Bio-Mimiking Facade Panel reflects a hydroskeletal structure. This modification, movement and characteristics of the volume, gives control over external forces and exerts them inside. The use of an IQ based material ‘nitinol’, prevent random behaviours and cleared the pattern of architecture.

Bio_Mimiking Facade video

The checkered illusion facade consists of 18 pairs of black and white wings. Each pair rotates simultaneously around the same axis, which passes through their point of intersection at the bottom part of the wings, but in the opposite direction. The facade is divided in 5 rows, the 3 of which have 4 pairs and the 2 have 3 pairs of wings.  Each row is controlled by a mechanism behind the plexiglass surface, that connects the black wings to one stick and the white ones to another and moreover, the sticks are connected to gears, attached to  10 analog servos. The servos are activated by 5 light sensors, one for each row,giving them the capacity to move independently.

Funky Strobe – Responsive Frame

The origami pixel its conformed by a radial symmetry that makes possiblee the extended repetition in a plane, around a commonpoint. In an square shape, any of the four corners could work as a rotation point, which allowed to generate differents shapes aroundjust one pattern.

The system is designed to make it react in the prescence of solar light. The facade, conceived as of an origami structure, has the properties to be able to close down at the moment the sensors detect the incidence of solar light.

PHOTOSKIN, is a 1.00 per 1.00 meter panel, which responds to light changes, translating that into a colorful skin that moves.

For achieving this, the following system was developed: Flashlights > Light sensors > Servo motors > Profiles > Fabric

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