By Daekwon Park and Woongki Sung Modular Pneumatic Façade System (MPFS), attempts to juxtapose key characteristics of biological design (modularity, robustness, homeostasis, and adaptive) with smart technologies (material, sensor, actuation, and control) in order to create a kinetic façade system that respond and interact with its environment in real-time.
Dena Molnar and Nicole Tariverdian Question:What role can textiles and interiors play in informing us about exterior conditions? Goal: To create a series of textiles that are augmented by exterior conditions like weather or temperature.
Sam Jacoby Nitinol, an alloy of nickel and titanium, has some wild phase-change properties. Beneath a certain threshold temperature, the atoms align in such a fashion, as to make the metal soft and ductile. Once heated, though, the alloy moves out of this martensite phase, and into a rigid austentite phase. “Training” nitinol sets this [...]