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Ark NovaArata Isozaki + Anish Kapoor

Japanese architect, Arata Isozaki, and UK-based artist Anish Kapoor collaborated on ArkNova, a mobile concert hall with a capacity of 500-700 people. After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami that on March 11, 2011, many people along the San-riku Coast had their entire communities wiped away. Living in temporary housing and no economic base, the intention of the project was to use music, dance, and theater as a way to bring hope and creative in-spiration. The temporary gathering space would also function as a place to meet others and create a sense of normalcy. No one community had the money to in-vest in a permanent infrastructure of the sort, and no one company wanted to sponsor a project that would only bring this type of hope to one small community. With a portable building, this temporary resurgence could bring lasting hope to a number of different com-munities.

The hall will provide an platform for musical performances: dance, jazz, multimedia and inter-disciplinary projects lead by international artists and ensembles. an artistic committee with personalities associated with the lucerne festival will support the planning. Performances are intended to be supported by sponsors and supporters in order to provide the populating of the area with free access to the pro-grams being presented. the hall will not only serve as a venue for these performances, but also as a place to meet and create a sense of normalcy amongst the region.

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AirquariumFesto / Tenara Fabrics/Sefar Architecture

This spherical structure is thirty-two meters in diameter and eight meters tall. There is a 120-ton water filled torus that surrounds the sphere that an-chors the building. One twenty-foot container includes the air conditioning, ventilation, water exchanger for cooling and heating, emergency generator, weather station, thermostat control, and wind-load-dependent air-pressure control. The other container includes the shell and the membrane foundation torus, entrance tunnel, and airlock. The shell itself consist of a dou-ble-wall construction to provide thermal insulation for more efficient heating and cooling. During the day, its translucent fabric lets natural daylight in, reducing its energy demands.


Classroom of the FutureGollifer Langston Architects

Portable architecture doesn’t always have to be temporary. Fixed resources can also move from one site to another without too much transformation. The Classroom of the Future designed by British architec-ture firm Gollifer Langston Architects does just that. To optimize investment and availability, one classroom was outfitted with the most recent Information and communication technology available. Computerized hydraulic technology Is used to position itself on the ground and open/expand itself. Screens are also posi-tioned on the exterior of the mobile classroom, effec-tively transforming the space outside of the classroom into a learning environment as well. When retrofits or upgrades need to be made for the technology it hous-es, it will also only need to be made in one place and still benefit all of the children in the community.


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SLIDING HOUSEdrMM ArchitectsJan 2009

The sliding house is an example of transform-able architecture. The house transforms its overall composition and character according to the season, weather, or mood.

There are three distinct building forms, a house, garage, and annex with unconventional detailing and radical performance. The garage is pulled off axis to create a courtyard between the three. Material quali-ties also help distinguish the other two volumes: red summer membrane and glass, red and black stained larch.

A 20 ton mobile roof/wall enclosure is then able to traverse the site and three volumes creating com-binations of enclosure, open-air living, and framing of views. This roof/wall enclosure is an autonomous structure of steel timer and insulation and is pow-ered by hidden electric motors on wheels in recessed tracks.


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32m2 ApartmentGary Chang Architect2008

The 32m2 house is another type of transform-able architecture. Instead of the exterior moving, in-terior components transform the 32m2 house into 24 different room configurations. These different configu-rations create a virtual 368m2 apartment. Sliding walls and a “murphy” bed are key elements to the transfor-mation.

The apartment building itself has 370 units in 17 floors located in Hong Kong, China. Gary Chang initially moved into the apartment with 6 other fam-ily members and another lady when he was 14. He was used to transforming and conserving space. Since then he has renovated 14 times converting the $45,000 USD property into a luxury home worth around $1.3 million USD.

Gary Chang says, “The key idea is that every-one could looking into their home more carefully and into how better to optimize their resources, because space is a resource. There is no use making your home as if it is a perfect show flat but at the same time never using it.”


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FlareUniversity of VirginiaJanuary 2008

Created by Staab Architects, the FLARE is a modular system that creates dynamic facades for any building or wall typology. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to “express, communicate and interact with its environment.” The FLARE offers one of the more sophisticated electromechanical systems. It is also acclaimed for its ability to adapt to a variety of surfaces, whether it be planar, double-curved, ruled, etc.. What is problematic about the FLARE system is that it does not provide a viable solution for glazing, as the panels used are opaque. Application of the FLARE system is further limited in that it does not enhance environmental conditions. Application of solar panels could be incorporated onto the external skin. The interface could then control the panel’s movement in a constrained manner to absorb the most solar energy. As of now, the facade operates more as of an interactive, aesthetic media interface.

The system is controlled by a computer and can be applied to any type of surface animation. The Flare interface acts as a lateral line and receives data input from sensor systems inside and outside the building, The FLARE system consists of a number of “tiltable metal flake bodies supplemented by individually controllable pneumatic cylinders.” Due to its adaptable geometric pattern, an infinite array of flakes can be mounted on any building or wall surface. Each metal flake reflects the “bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position. When a flake is tilted downwards by


a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded from the sky light and appears as a dark pixel. By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight, the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light.”

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Al Bahar Towersaedas

International practice aedas is nearing comple-tion of the ‘al bahar towers’ for the abu dhabi invest-ment council headquarters in abu dhabi, that utilize what is perhaps the largest and most advanced inter-active sun-shading skin system. The two 25-storey office towers are parametrically designed based on Islamic geometric mosaics, using the tessellation of simple shapes to drive the structure. the cylindrical forms maximize volume and floor-to-wall area while offering views in all directions. Unfortunately however, this also opens the interior to a very large solar gain factor which is a substantial problem in the extreme lo-cal climates. reinterpreting the traditional wood-lattice screens called ‘mashrabiya’ using today’s technologi-cal abilities resulted in an outer ski. system of triangu-lar screens arranged in a series of scalable hexagons fold up to create a solid solar barrier.

Each of the 1000 panelss is connected to a lin-ear actuator which enables it to function in response to the position of the sun, effectively reducing heat gain and glare by 50% while giving islamic vernacular a contemporary representation. The intelligent facade, together with solar thermal panels for hot-water heat-ing and photovoltaic panels on the roof, minimize the need for internal lighting and cooling, altogether re-ducing total carbon dioxide emissions by over 1750 tons per year.


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Technorama FacadeNed Kahn2002

In 2002, Ned Kahn worked with the staff of Technorama, the major science center in Switzerland, and their architects, Durig and Rami, to create a fa-cade for the building which is composed of thousands of aluminum panels that move in the air currents and reveal the complex patterns of turbulence in the wind. The facade is visible from the large urban plaza in front of the museum. Unlike many other interactive or dynamic facades, the Technorama Facade does not use any sensors, motors, or electricity.


Nano Vent SkinAgustin Otegui

Using nano-manufacturing with bioengineered organisms as a production method, NVS merges dif-ferent kinds of micro organisms that work together to absorb and transform natural energy from the en-vironment. What comes out of this merging of living organisms is a skin that transforms two of the most abundant sources of green energy on earth: Sunlight and Wind. There is another advantage of using living organisms: the absorption of CO2 from the air.” The outer skin of the structure absorbs sunlight through an organic photovoltaic skin and transfers it to the nano-fibers inside the nano-wires which then is sent to stor-age units at the end of each panel.

Each turbine on the panel generates energy by chemical reactions on each end where it makes contact with the structure. Polarized organisms are re-sponsible for this process on every turbine’s turn.

The inner skin of each turbine works as a filter absorbing CO2 from the environment as wind passes through it.


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Piezoelctric Flooring

Piezoelectricity is electrical energy produced from mechanical pressure (including motions such as walking). When pressure is applied to an object, a negative charge is produced on the expanded side and a positive charge on the compressed side. Once the pressure is relieved, electrical current flows across the material.

A single footstep causes pressure when the foot hits the floor. When the flooring is engineered with piezoelectric technology, the electrical charge produced by that pressure is captured by floor sen-sors, converted to an electrical charge by piezo mate-rials (usually in the form of crystals or ceramics), then stored and used as a power source.

In 2007, two MIT graduate students proposed the idea of installing piezoelectric flooring in urban areas. Dubbed “Crowd Farming,” the idea was to in-stall a flooring system that would take advantage of piezoelectric principles by harvesting power from foot-steps in crowded places such as train stations, malls, concerts and anywhere where large groups of people move. The key is the crowd: One footstep can only provide enough electrical current to light two 60-watt bulbs for one second, but the greater the number of people walking across the piezoelectric floor, the greater amounts of power produced. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility -- approximately 28,500 foot-steps generate energy to power a train for one second [source: Christian Science Monitor]. Imagine what the combined power of commuters’ footsteps during rush hour could do.


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The JR stations in Tokyo, Japan have begun using Piezoelectric flooring at their ticketing gates to power the gates and display systems. With 25 square meters of piezoelectric flooring they expect to obtain over 1,400kw per day, more than enough to power their systems. Another example of Piezoelectric floor-ings use are dance floors in London, New York, Rot-terdam, and elsewhere.

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LumenhausVirginia Tech2002

LUMENHAUS is the third solar house designed and built at Virginia Tech as part of a research pro-gram begun in 2002. An innovative design integrating architecture and technology, the project won the inter-national Solar Decathlon Competition in Madrid, Spain in June of 2010.

In January, 2012, it was announced that the LUMENHAUS has won a 2012 AIA Honor Award for Architecture. This is the first time this award has been given to a university team.

As a modern pavilion, LUMENHAUS is an ar-chitectural space of distinction. Where most energy-conscious houses are closed with strategic openings to resist heat transfer, LUMENHAUS has open, flow-ing spaces linking occupants to each other within the house and to nature outside. Inspired by the Farn-sworth House by Mies Van Der Rohe, the north and south walls are all glass, maximizing the owner’s ex-posure to bright, natural daylight. The fully automated Eclipsis System, comprising independent sliding lay-ers, permits a revolutionary design in a solar-powered house, while filtering light in beautiful, flowing patterns throughout the day.

LUMENHAUS does more than literally deliver a brighter day, however. LUMENHAUS epitomizes a “whole building design” construction approach, in which all the home’s components and systems have been designed to work together to maximize user comfort with environmental protection. LUMENHAUS


uses technology optimally to make the owner’s life simpler, more energy efficient and less expensive. On the cutting edge of responsive architecture, LU-MENHAUS can operate completely self sufficiently, responding to environmental changes automatically to balance energy efficiency with user comfort. LUMEN-HAUS is a zero-energy home that is completely pow-ered by the sun. Other sustainable features include the use of passive energy systems, radiant heating and building materials that are from renewable and/or recyclable sources.

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