The soothing and slow movement of this transparent surface above the visitors provides the eery feeling of diving in the bottom of a shallow sea. This “breathing ceiling” is based on a new type of morphing system developed in our research lab: light, stiff, easy to manufacture and to roll.
BREATHING LANDSCAPE
Material: Heat-sealed TPU films
Trigger: air
Two superimposed sheets are thermosealed along a precise labyrinthing path by a digitally controlled hot point.
The seams defines internal flat channels that will contract laterally when inflated into tubes.When this contraction, oriented by the tubes, is not compatible, that is when some parts want to contract along different orientations, the geometrical frustration can only be solved by popping out of plane into a 3D shape. This could not have been obtained from the initial planar sheets without a lot of cutting and stitching.
Although very light, and capable of changing shape, this surface can become very stiff when inflated, and could be used at architectural scale.
PMMH laboratory (ESPCI-PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Paris Cité University)
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Joo-Won Hong
Louis Galiègue
Zacharie Guillaume
Alejandro Ibarra
Nathan Vani
Noga Zajfman
J.Panetta
F. Isvoranu
T.Chen
M.Pauly
E.Siefert
F.Auger
C.Barez
J.Bico
A.Bouvier
E.Reyssat
B.Roman
D.DLab
