origamiCeiling, hexa 64 x 3
Reynaerts Duffel, Belgium
2017
LAb[au], Manuel Abendroth, Jéröme Decock, Els Vermang
Aluminium, SMA springs, custom tailored electronics and programming
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A kinetic ceiling based on a tessellated surface, subdivided into 192 triangles, their movement uses smart memory alloys to pull up the flaps and gravity for downwards motion, balancing control with randomness.
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This binary logic of heated and non-heated spring corresponds to the logic of programming and simple permutation. The random motion of the flaps opposes the geometric order of the tessellation and the architectural framework. Sometimes only a few tiles are moving and sometimes the whole surface is updating, proposing a variation in rhythm. As such, it expresses the concept of randomOrder, a synergic principle between the elementary use of colour, geometry and motion following a stochastic system.
history
the work has been commissioned by the Belgium company Reynaert in 2016
