Flare Fassade / 2009 / WHITEvoid interactive art&design
Flare – is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment. The system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies supplemented by individually controllable pneumatic cylinders. Due to the developed pattern, an infinite array of flakes can be mounted on any building or wall surface in a modular system of multiplied FLARE units.
Idea, Visualization: Christopher Bauder, Christian Perstl WHITEvoid 2009 (building by Staab Architects Berlin) / Technical Realization 1x1m Module: Christian Guder
One Flare module – consisting of 16 aluminium cast units, which can be inclined silently with a Festo Pneumatic system – is about 1x1m. By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight the individual flakes of the system act like pixels formed by natural light.
My task: Planning, Realization and transition from prototyping to production of the 1x1m aluminium modules – powder-coated and Festo Pneumatic systems