Daily question: A building that “ripples”?
Fri, Oct 10, 08
From WHITEvoid interactive art & design in Germany (video):
FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment.
Each metal flake reflects the bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position. When the flake is tilted downwards by a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded from the sky light and this way 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.
How long before someone figures out a “green” variation of this to control climate or reflect environmental metadata?
