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Animated Apertures
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“Animated Apertures emphasizes an Architecture that can exist between nature and technology and can evolve into an interactive and intelligent organism articulating a design aesthetic, which encompasses the concept of Stewardship, the responsible management of resource use, through both an environmental-economic dimension and a social-cultural one as well. Animated Apertures started as a design research project, to develop a window or opening that is constantly in flux without using mechanical devices but rather replacing them with advanced silicon composites that mix material properties on a molecular level and can transform from rigid to flexible within one material component. These components, mimicking nature and offering a large surface area, which is finished with a solar thin film coating that produces a significant amount of solar energy. This idea of a moving façade or window frame that is able to respond to environmental forces and exploit the latent potential of energetic exchanges between the natural and the built environment allows us to formulate an alternate path for sustainable design that focuses less on efficiency but on a visionary aesthetic that expresses a symbiotic relationship between nature, building morphologies and material expression.The architectural project for Animated Apertures is a ten unit, 20 story tall housing tower for Lima, Peru. On the interior, each of the housing units expands over three levels, which are stacked vertically utilizing an L-shape sectional diagram that maximizes double height spaces and outdoor areas through interlocking the units in plan and in section.The project aims to expand on the multi unit housing paradigm by developing a window or aperture typology that does both generate energy through solar thin film coating and becomes a shading device that creates a delicate balance between maximizing daylight and minimizing heat gain for each unit.The aperture is not just a flat element but a three dimensional spatial object that filters and reflects light for each housing units. Each aperture was carefully placed and aimed in such a way that it creates a delicate balance between maximizing daylight and minimizing heat gain for each unit.“
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