More information: Tiffany Cheng et al, Weather-responsive adaptive shading through biobased and bioinspired hygromorphic 4D-printing, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54808-8 ...

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Currently installed on a greenhouse at the Botanical Garden in Freiburg, the demonstrator consists of 101 flexible flaps, shading elements made from fiber-reinforced plastic laminates, that ...

Measuring 83.5 square meters (899 sq ft), the prototype covers the exterior of the windows along one side of the greenhouse. It's made up of an array of shading elements, each one of which in turn ...

The University of Stuttgart’s (Stuttgart, Germany) research demonstrator “Adaptive FRP elements for facade shading” has been selected as an interactive exhibit in the Building & Industry Innovation ...

The STO Verolith facade elements were used as panels for a flat design on an external wall insulation system (StoTherm Vario). Projects Images Products & BIM Professionals News Archive Submit a ...

It consists of a gridded array of pine-cone-scale-inspired self-bending elements, which are housed between two panes of glass in an aluminum-frame window unit. Vents in the frame allow outdoor air ...

Researchers at Germany's Institute for Textile and Fiber Technologies (ITFT) have designed a pneumatically activable PV façade equipped with solar tracking systems. “FlectoSol is the first ...

Terra-cotta sun shading offers transparency and dynamism for Australian business school. ... This zoning of the elevation helped inform where baguettes could be eliminated within each facade.

Each of the Temca contacts involved in the façades of the building praised the aesthetic and functional qualities of the parts as well as the ease of assembly on the building.” The façades of the ...

In a collaborative effort, Bcomp’s innovative flax fibre composites and Temca’s manufacturing expertise have been combined to create the cladding panels for the façade of the new Cité Scolaire ...

Completed in 2008 in Sydney, Australia. Images by John Gollings. The Freshwater House developed the idea of the operable façade to mediate between the requirements for privacy and shading on a ...