Living Architecture-SP06-Columbia

This is the first try to understand the working inside a Hauer tile when one wants to make it move and change the light it is letting through.





























Here is a flattened version that should provide the needed cantilever for the flexinol. Sadly it turned out that piano wire is too fickle in its behaviour to be of much use in a flat shape in this configuration.




























The following two images show two experiments to work with the 3d shape and to insert flexible material between the moving parts. The used pantyhose proved to be too sturdy to yield to the pull we exerted and the paperflaps were not to be controlled in a suitable way. So these experiments showed that this was not the way to do it.

























































This is the last development and it should be the thing that works. This small prototype is functioning manually but a bigger one is being built at the moment with flexinol to pull up two metal wires that cross in the middle and make the fabric bulge. Through the double aperture on both sides light can shine through the tile. The material that we plan to use will be spandex, black for the outside and white for the inside to better achieve a glow effect once the tile is activated.