Image: Materials and Applications.
'Bloom' is an exhibition exploring thermally responsive building skins at Materials and Applications, an exhibition space in Los Angeles. The installation is a shade structure created from self-organizing woven bi-metal panels. When the heat from the sun penetrates the panels they fan-out increasing the shade they offer, and opening gaps in the skin to allow better air circulation around the structure.
The research work is a collaboration between Los Angles architects Doris Sung, Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and structural engineer Matthew Melnyk and has been over a year in the planning. They have created a monocoque structure of 'hypar' panels that sits on a foundation of 1/2" thick slumped glass panels that provide the necessary structural stability and kentledge. The installation will be open to the public from November 2011 to spring 2012.
Image: Materials and Applications.
'Bloom' is an exhibition exploring thermally responsive building skins at Materials and Applications, an exhibition space in Los Angeles. The installation is a shade structure created from self-organizing woven bi-metal panels. When the heat from the sun penetrates the panels they fan-out increasing the shade they offer, and opening gaps in the skin to allow better air circulation around the structure.
The research work is a collaboration between Los Angles architects Doris Sung, Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter and structural engineer Matthew Melnyk and has been over a year in the planning. They have created a monocoque structure of 'hypar' panels that sits on a foundation of 1/2" thick slumped glass panels that provide the necessary structural stability and kentledge. The installation will be open to the public from November 2011 to spring 2012.
