Living Skin Building Facades - The FLARE (VIDEO)

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Living Skin Building Facades - The FLARE (VIDEO)




Living Skin Building Facades - The FLARE (VIDEO) Living Skin Building Facades - The FLARE (VIDEO)


The FLARE is a building facade that allows the exterior of an edifice to “express” itself and interact with its environment, therefore acting as a living skin or membrane. The system consists of a series of tiltable metal flakes supplemented by pneumatic cylinders that can be controlled individually. Each computer-controlled metal flake reflects sunlight and when it is tilted downwards, its face is shaded from the light making it appear as a dark pixel formed by natural light.

This is really revolutionary. A reflection membrane as a building facade. The video is really amazing.


By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight, the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light. The system is controlled by a computer to form any kind of surface animation. Sensor systems inside and outside the building communicate the buildings activity directly to the FLARE system which acts as the buildings lateral line. (flare-facade)

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Living Skin Building Facades - The FLARE (VIDEO)
Living Skin Building Facades - The FLARE (VIDEO)


Read More: flare-facade   Via: lunaticadesnuda.blogspot   Posted: May 6, 08
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Interesting and beautiful to watch. But, unless the flakes have solar capabilities, it's hard to imagine too many businesses and developers to use this technology on a large scale.

By: Maggie T. on May 6, 08 | 0 Trends | 38 Comments




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