Architects are developing shape-shifting buildings that function like living systems, altering their shape in response to changing weather conditions or to the way people use them. If successful, "Responsive structures" will monitor their internal and external environment and change form to suit any situation.
Above is a full-scale prototype of an "actuated tensegrity" structure. This prototype was built from cast aluminum pieces, and the structure is programmable and responsive to its surrounding environment. At the Office for Robotic Architectural Media & The Bureau for Responsive Architecture, Tristan d'Estree Sterk is working on shape-changing "building envelopes" using a system of rods and wires manipulated by festo's pneumatic "muscles" that serve as the building's skeleton, forming the wall stucture.
good ,bit a bit overdesigned.
and expensive.
try www.tombarber.com for a better way to do it.
like the overall site though,
but waht about the future when bukdings change use, what of form follows function, when the function changes, demountability?????????
tom barber
Posted by: tom barber | April 27, 2007 at 08:54 PM