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210, South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Lamptron
210, South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
This research reexamines traditional notions of an “environmentally responsive” architecture through the development of fixed linkage systems that challenges ideas of typology and performance. Linkages and fixed-dimensional transformations have great application in mechanical engineering, and mathematics, but have had little deployment in the production of architectural systems that are little more than fluctuating ornament, or deployable structure. With automation, and access to computation and machinery, architectural design and production is poised to become an arena of re-configurable, actively engaged systems that can wholly engage changing occupant desire. The pursuit of this research has been in the design and implementation of fixed-linkage configurations that have varying degrees of freedom, and what spatial implications and altogether new volumetric changes emerge from their actions. This is tethered to the use of input sensor technologies; Whereas architectsʼ use of environmentally responsive mechatronics has typically focused on ideas of optimization, our prototype explores the application of photo-responsive actuation to physically transform familiar objects that are typically passive. In this prototype, varying luminosity threshold mapping is used to create linear, and scalable, transformation of linked linkages. The networking of these systems provides a new design methodology that allows for a transitive, and indeterminate spatial configuration. This model of architectural production is research that is presented here to define modes of control, and communication.
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