Servo Motor controlling flexible skin

Relation of extractable floor and the flexible skin.

Net House - the combined external skin

Flexible skin with lighting test

Deformation of flexible skin with "easing" movement

Breathing movement

Light Sensor controlling servo motor

Video demo without the flexible skin. The servo should pull a belt to control the movement instead of moving directly.

Servo movement with flexible skin. The breathing movement is exaggerated for easy recognition. Fine toning will done for the final work.

Video demo - side view showing the connecting Arduino.

Net House - Modified Structure

Modified structure for shape changing of the skin
We use a belt transmissions structure to give a stronger and direct manipulation of the flexible skin. Multiple independent motion can give more diverse combination of deformation.

The structural design for the Extendable floor.

Extendable Floor test 01 - the white rod represent the curvy flexible skin that pulls out the floor while deformation.

Extendable test 01 video

Extendable floor test 2

Design sketches of extendable floor

Net House - Mechanism Motion by servo

Sketch of the mechanical design

we strive to use less servors to realize the transformation function.

Original test for motor mechanism

Prototyping for the flexible skin

Flexible skin grid line pressing in motion

Elevating mechanism for the movable club house. A pair of synchronized mechanism lift the platform up and down.

Mechanism for the transformation of flexible skin. Each motor controls a pair of mirrored up-down motion of the skin. Strength of the mechanism will be tested with the actual skin mounted. There will be around 4 sets of this mechanism for the whole structure.

New structure as related to the original test.

Net House - Flexible Skin Mechanism

Flexible Skin changing shape by altering the height of skin. and can create subtle partitions for different number of participants.

Flexible Skin Breathing according to the nature of activity inside.

Exterior of Movable Club House of various shape

Interior of Movable Club House with extendible floor platform

Interior of Movable Club House

Side view of Movable Club House showing bulging flexible skin and extendible floor.

Image showing the mechanism of ceiling and platform. The change is activated by simple up/down motion of flexible skin attach points. Extendible floor move to cope with scalable space.

Mechanical test for extendible floor.


Skin Mechanism design 2

Net House - sliding platform structure

Testing for sliding platform structure

Net House-story (2011.02.18)

< Concept >

The NET HOUSE is an smart architecture that facilitate the interaction between people by using the metaphor of social media.

1. Users' activities and habits will be tracked and people with similar profile will be gathered in the system.

2. A

Movable and kinetic Clubhouse (bar, theatre, entertainment space) moves along programmed tracks to invite people joining the activities held in it, which create physical connection, like an invitation in the virtual world.

3. The Movable Clubhouse space and individual spaces link together. People walk into another space and participate the activities naturally and voluntarily.

< Story >

Tom is living in his net house. When he listens to music, reads books or even cooks, the house could record what kinds of food he prefers, what kinds of book he likes to read and analyze his hobby and interests based on his daily activities.

In this video, we want to demonstrate the living environment could detect and record your behavior to the system.

The whole building (or even the residential districts) is actually a smart network system to analyze each person’s daily life and then analyze people’s common interests and provide public activities like themed party or exhibition to connect people who have similar qualities, profile or hobbies together. Just like the social networking connect people with similar profile.

At a Friday night, Tom is watching TV at his house. Suddenly, the building tells him the clubhouse is holding a theme party about the UEFA Champions Soccer League, which he may be interested in.

The moving clubhouse moves to Tom’s house and be next to his French window. Tom finds there are so many neighbors are also the fans of soccer and even the fans of AC Milan. He open his window and steps into the clubhouse and joins the party, and has a perfect time enjoying the activity and watching the game with new friends together.

Structure testing:

The spatial appearance of "the movable club house" will be changed according to the number of participants and the nature of activities. For example expanding volume when there are more people, more vibrant movement of the overall shape for party, etc.

Net House-original concept(2011.02.11)

Net House - Social Network Smart Architecture

Social media has developed virtual networks on the Internet, and everyone is tied into an account characterized by one’s own profile and habits. The project started as an idea to translate the social media activity into physical world, and engage people to interact in real life. Imagine in a building, each modular apartment is a personal account, and the environment will learn about one’s life by detecting the activities, smell, color, music, etc so as to create individual profile. People with similar profile will be linked invisibly by the system and facilitate their interaction in daily life. Movable public spaces (bar, theatre, entertainment space) move along programmed tracks to create physical connection, like an invitation in the virtual world, and gather peoples with similar profile and enjoy activities among them. The challenge has been to create a responsive mechanical architectural system that executes the invisible links between people by intelligent digital control and management system. The system should be smart enough to facilitate communication but not invading the choice and private life of individual person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCMoLWVEe44