TOWARDS A QUANTUM ARCHITECTURE
PHOTOELASTICITY
MICHAL KOSZYCKI
SMART MATERIALS
Smart materials or designed materials are materials that have one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by external stimuli
SMART MATERIALS INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
John Storrs Hall Utility fog
DeCOI Architects Aegis Hyposurface
R&Sie LostInParis
....‘dumb’ smart materials SIMPLEST TECHNO-MATERIAL SYSTEMS
thermochromic wood finish
‘Warped’ by Matt Hume
Hanabi Lamp
ARCHITECTURAL SCALE
Decker Yeadon prototype homeostatic facade system
Ned Kahn Swiss Science Center Winterthur, Switzerland
UV
CURRENT photovoltaic
UV
SPECULAR CHANGE photochromic
HEAT
SPECULAR CHANGE thermochromic
HEAT
DIFFUSION LEVEL CHANGE thermotropic
HEAT
SHAPE-CHANGE (FORCE) shape memory SMA alloy
CURRENT
HEAT resistor
CU
UV photovoltaic
RR
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ist or
HE
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UV
SHAPE-CHANGE (FORCE) shape memory SMA alloy
SHAPE-CHANGE (FORCE) technology
COMPUTER VIRTUAL REALITY
TECTONICS?
TECHTONICS >> LIGHT
Atomic Force Microscope
POLARIZATION / BIREFRINGENCE
PALARIZATION / BIREFRINGENCE / PHOTOELASTICITY PHOTOELASTICITY / POLARIZATION / BIREFRINGENCE
y y
Slow Slow
Incoming light
x Fast
Fast
Slow σ
1
σ2
α
z
s
Wave plate
δ
z
Transmitted light
σ1
σ2
α
z
s
δ
Birefringent
Fast
Fast
α
f
x
α
f
z
Transmitted light
Birefringent
ISOCLIMICS / ISOCHROMATICS
LOADING >>> LIGHT FILTRATION
...Plastarch (PSM)
STRUCTURAL TRANSPARENCY
Train Bombing Memorial / Madrid / next to ATOCHA railway station
Raynolds Manufacturing Acrylic Products
WAYS TO CONTROL POLARIZATION
Active Polarization Switch
Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal
Active Polarization Switch
ROBERT MARK