Smart Building Skin

EXPERIMENT

Reactive smart skin

A Spa as a spatial design, it’s exposed to many various inner temperatures that need to be regulated to keep a steady balanced equilibrium.

This study and design challenge is creating a SMART SKIN to the space design, that can be reactive and responsive to the needs of its inhabitants, regarding achieving a steady inner space temperature.  

Natural ventilation is a way to get rid of excess humidity in the space.

The smart biomimicry solution here is based on the function of the pine cones, and how in certain drying conditions they open their stems to the seeds to come out and spread.  

The experiment here, is to have same action of the pine cones, through  certain wood veneers which in this case; crossed cut of Maple veneers. The veneers bend upwards under humidity exposure.

As a space design, a certain yet random distribution of the theses veneers are covering up the space skin. That will allow excess humidity that built up in the inner atmosphere of the spa to escape out, by the ‘natural reaction’ of the veneers to bend and open the 'apertures' and act as a natural ventilation system. 

The pictures below are showing the procedure carried out to support and validate the Biomimicry concept; wood veneers act as natural ventilators.

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