tranSquility
a dynamically mediated facade
While taking an Engineering Without Borders class as part of my PhD at MIT, I worked with the amazing architect Onur Gun to design a media facade for an office building in Venice that could transition into a kinetic sculpture. This work was featured at the MIT Media Lab:
Transquility as a kinetic sculpture.
Here is the prototype that I built to demonstrate the concept and to work out some of the kinks. Each laser cut panel holds the place for one of the LED screens, and is actuated with 2 degrees of freedom.
The transQuiliy Prototype with a close up of the actuators.
I programmed the prototype to dance the Hokey Pokey when someone would walk by.
The Prototype in action!
Our paper on the topic is available here.
An Earlier Idea
We also considered a field of fiber optic grass that could be actuated to create a surface with texture:
Scematic of the original idea. The actuated panel in green moves the fiber optic elements (shown in blue) that are coupled to an RGB LED source.
Click though this Gallery to see the idea in action:
