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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A Swiss startup, Zurich Soft Robotics, has devised a photovoltaic façade that tracks and moves with the sun.The company calls Solskin the first commercially available intelligent climate-adaptive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Openable concrete panels and sun-shading blinds add dynamism to the otherwise austere facades of the Elcano housing block by Madrid-based practice FRPO.