Morphouse // Design 10

Morphøuse is a research and design project that studies how we can think differently about building facades in the way that they are built and the way that they manipulate light. Through the research of mechanical louvers and dynamic building skins, our goal was to create a facade that can change shape and form while directing light into different spaces of the built environment. By taking a flat material and applying a triangulated tessellation to it, the material can begin to fold and bend in to different forms giving it many dynamic shapes. With studying potential material of the dynamic skin, it became apparent that the skin must be able to diffuse light, direct it and still maintain its malleability. With these goals, a layering of acrylic and poly-carbonate became the final materials for the dynamic skin. The dynamic skin was then combined with continuous servo motors that are controlled with an Arduino Uno to begin to actuate the skin into the different forms.