Category Archives: Meral Ece Tankal

Research Team:

Efilena Baseta – Ece Tankal – Ramin Shambayati

What our architecture may lack in a set style and goals is compensated in its ability to harness flows of energy and information in its various transitions. By treating our architecture as a homogenous system we give it the potential for infinite personalization based on control over specific spatial parameters. These parameters will define processes and reasons for change in architecture rather than finite and ultimately outdated states.

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We propose an architecture of transition.

A series of transitions between forces, (material) phases, people, spaces, and functions.

Form does not always follow the functions that we cannot predict but rather the phases that our new built environments can go through in their relationship with humans, nature, and existing buildings.

It is in our architecture that we as individuals must manifest our desire for control over spatial parameters.

These parameters will define processes and reasons for change in architecture rather than finite and ultimately outdated states.

link to final video: https://vimeo.com/90939396

click on the image above to watch the video!

The project is based on creating a structural system that reacts to certain stimuli and changes its configuration within a given space. The nature of responsiveness can occur after the structure is erected, resulting in real-time reactions to its local users. We experimented with different materials which were activated with various stimuli such as shear force, electricity, and magnetic fields. The problem was that in order to achieve bigger viscosity we had to apply continuous. One answer to this question were materials with photorheological (PR) properties, which get stiffer when you apply UV light and stay stiff until you apply a different UV light. However, due to the high cost and rarity of the aforementioned PR materials we are working with microcrystalline wax insted, which also allows us to create an optimized system without exerting a lot of energy. Read More »