12 moving building facades (videos)
Jean Nouvel created a spectacular facade, based upon electronically controlled camera iris shaped devices in the style of decorative Arab screens, for the IMA in Paris, 20 years ago. For some reason, mechanical facades have recently started cropping up here and there in architecture. Here are some of our favorites.
| Share: |
|
The animated facade that started the trend nearly 20 years ago and managed to combine decoration with modernism.
"Hoberman has developed a unique series of hexagonal shading cells for Foster + Partners' design of the Audencia Provencial (Appeals Court) in Madrid, Spain"
"Flow 5.0 is an interactive landscape made out of hundreds of ventilators which reacts on your sound and<p />motion."
"An art installation by Ned Kahn composed of 3"x 3" aluminum squares that swing in the wind."
"Vertical Canal consists of tens of thousands of clear plastic elements that tilt in the wind and reveal patterns of turbulence. These patterns of turbulence, which are normally invisible, are extremely interesting sculpturally. "
"Wave Wall kinetic art installation at the LIGO Science Education Center in Livingston Parish, Louisiana"
"4D-Pixel is a smart surface which physically reacts to your voice, music and shows relievo letters. This interactive sculpture is a merging of electromagnetics, software and electronics. The dynamic of the wall is made of hundreds of pixels which react on the dynamic in soundfrequencies. "
