Title: Thaw
Category: #responsivearchitecture #behavingarchitectures #responsivestructures
Author: Center for Information Technology and Architecture. CITA
Year: 2010
Url: http://cita.karch.dk/Menu/Projects/Behaving+Architectures+%28selection%29
Description: Thaw investigates how to use textile concepts of tension and friction for tectonic structures of architectural scale. As a wall membrane, Thaw explores the making of a woven structure made of ash slats braced together by steel joints. Where most architectural structures work through principles of compression, Thaw is a tensile structure. As such Thaw is soft: it moves the forces through its woven field though frictive interconnectivity. Exploring the ideal of soft constructions, Thaw is animated. A pulley system draws Thaw in at a pulsing rhythm. The structure expands and contracts, inhales and exhales, resonating with its own material performance. A second skin lines the structure. As a pleated manifold the membrane is tied to the surface responding to the movement and incorporating its rhythm.
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