project07:Styling

Re-inventing delta technology

As mentioned before the building should breath ground breaking technology. To acclomplish this you've to create an environment where people are getting inspired. A place which promotes and which they associate themselfs with. The building is made of the most advanced materials and production techniques, one is inside technology. Navigating exterior as well as the interior feels like walking in the exterior/interior of a living installation / creature. You are inside technology.

The design has a dynamic appearance, the project explores notions of flow and interaction. Below you see some pictures which really grabs the desired appearance. The cladding of the façade consists of shiny tinted and open-jointed acryclic panels with visible fixing points on the cladding elements. One of the main purposes of the project is that it explores notions of flow and interaction.

The facade

On the interaction page the concept of the adaptive facade is showed. It is the principal on which way the facade interacts to the solar radiation. The pattern on the surface follows the dynamics of the the surface which contributes to the articulation of the shape. The radius of the openings in the facade are first affected by the curvature of the surface. Where the curvature is heigher the openings have also a bigger radius. Beside this determination of the radius, the radius is also affected by the amount of solar radiation, when a window is gaining more radiation the radius of the opening will shrink. You can see some explorations of the design of the facade below.