As an architect, I am interested in studying how the mechanisms can be integrated into the architecture, because we have always designed buildings that stay intact for years and we have been taught that a building must remain static in the structural sense, despite everything is in constant motion and change.

Before ITP I worked in a prototype, designed entirely from the behavior of the material itself and its own self-structuring. That’s why I started researching about Origami Tessellations as a possibility of architectural construction. The advantages are that we could design flexible self-structuring surfaces and at the same time, they could transform itself, according to the need of social uses and environment stimulus, either by mechanical or electronic ways.

some interesting references are:

Ron Resch with his study about origami and mathematics.

Hyposurface by DECOI:
The surface behaves like a precisely controlled liquid: waves, patterns, logos, even text emerge and fade continually within its dynamic surface. The human eye is drawn to physical movement, and this gives HypoSurface a basic advantage over other display systems. (via hyposurface.org )

The Rietveld Schröder House:
Was built in 1924. This house doesn’t have walls rather a panels system which allows the house be a dynamic, changeable open zone. The mechanism is a system of sliding and revolving panels.

M-House by Michael Jantzen:
Consists of a series of rectangular panels that are attached with hingers to an open space frame grid of seven interlocking cubes. The panels are hinged to the cubes in either a horizontal or a vertical orientation. The hinges allow the panels to fold into, or out of the curb frames to perform various functions.
(via thecityreview.com)

Transformers:
the toy line of robots which are able to convert from robot to car, truck or something else.

Filed under mechanisms.