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Staab Architekten - Renovation of the C10 tower, University of Darmstadt 2011.

(Source: subtilitas)

Vaillo & Irigaray - CIB (Biomedical research institute), Pamplona 2008. 

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Lluís Clotet & Ignacio Paricio - Illa de la Llum apartments, Barcelona 2005. Via. »> One of my favorite buildings of the new area of Diagonal Mar in BCN, the image doesn’t make any justice to the “disintegration” effect the façade accomplish in this building. -MAD el conTEXTUAL«<Lluís Clotet & Ignacio Paricio - Illa de la Llum apartments, Barcelona 2005. Via. »> One of my favorite buildings of the new area of Diagonal Mar in BCN, the image doesn’t make any justice to the “disintegration” effect the façade accomplish in this building. -MAD el conTEXTUAL«<

Lluís Clotet & Ignacio Paricio - Illa de la Llum apartments, Barcelona 2005. Via.

»> One of my favorite buildings of the new area of Diagonal Mar in BCN, the image doesn’t make any justice to the “disintegration” effect the façade accomplish in this building. -MAD el conTEXTUAL«<

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“The Integrated Concentrating Solar Facade System is a building integrated photovoltaic system that takes a dramatically different approach than existing building integrated photovoltaic technologies to provide electrical power, thermal energy, enhanced daylighting and reduced solar gain. The system is architecturally integrated into the facades and roof atria of buildings while still providing maximum outside views and diffuse daylight for the building users. These benefits are accomplished by miniaturizing and distributing the essential components of concentrating PV technology within the weather-sealed windows of the building envelopes. The IC Solar System produces electricity with a PV cell, captures much of the remaining solar energy as heat for domestic hot water, space heating (or, possibly, for distributed absorption refrigeration cooling), reduces solar gain by the building, and enhances interior daylighting quality, thus reducing overuse of artificial lighting. The design and operation of the system permits direct partial views of the outside by the building’s inhabitants.”“The Integrated Concentrating Solar Facade System is a building integrated photovoltaic system that takes a dramatically different approach than existing building integrated photovoltaic technologies to provide electrical power, thermal energy, enhanced daylighting and reduced solar gain. The system is architecturally integrated into the facades and roof atria of buildings while still providing maximum outside views and diffuse daylight for the building users. These benefits are accomplished by miniaturizing and distributing the essential components of concentrating PV technology within the weather-sealed windows of the building envelopes. The IC Solar System produces electricity with a PV cell, captures much of the remaining solar energy as heat for domestic hot water, space heating (or, possibly, for distributed absorption refrigeration cooling), reduces solar gain by the building, and enhances interior daylighting quality, thus reducing overuse of artificial lighting. The design and operation of the system permits direct partial views of the outside by the building’s inhabitants.”

“The Integrated Concentrating Solar Facade System is a building integrated photovoltaic system that takes a dramatically different approach than existing building integrated photovoltaic technologies to provide electrical power, thermal energy, enhanced daylighting and reduced solar gain. The system is architecturally integrated into the facades and roof atria of buildings while still providing maximum outside views and diffuse daylight for the building users. These benefits are accomplished by miniaturizing and distributing the essential components of concentrating PV technology within the weather-sealed windows of the building envelopes. The IC Solar System produces electricity with a PV cell, captures much of the remaining solar energy as heat for domestic hot water, space heating (or, possibly, for distributed absorption refrigeration cooling), reduces solar gain by the building, and enhances interior daylighting quality, thus reducing overuse of artificial lighting. The design and operation of the system permits direct partial views of the outside by the building’s inhabitants.”

(Source: polychroniadis)

Atelier Feichang Jianzhu - Placid Rivers club, Tongzhou 2010. Via. Atelier Feichang Jianzhu - Placid Rivers club, Tongzhou 2010. Via.

Atelier Feichang Jianzhu - Placid Rivers club, Tongzhou 2010. Via.

‘Adaptive Fa[ca]de’ by Marilena Skavara (Bartlett School of the Built Environment, UCL)explores the functional possibilities and performative characteristics of cellular automata (CA). In addition to the unique emergent behaviour of CA, a neural network enables a further computational layer to evolve CA behaviour to the context of its surrounding environment. Building upon the early work of Conway’s ‘Game of life’ and Stephen Wolfram’s extensive research on the wider implementation of CA, ‘Adaptive Fa[ca]de’ becomes a living adapting skin, constantly training itself from the history of its own errors and achievements.