Professor: Martin Bechthold
Course: Nano Micro Macro: Adaptive Material Laboratory
This project is an experimental and computational investigation that focuses on the design and development of highly transformable materials and patterns that can be used as adaptive exterior shading systems.
The possibility of reversible transformations were explored using materials with two-way shape memory effects such as shape memory alloys and polymers to couple them with auxetic patterns to control the transformations. The proposed shading system lead to an improved daylighting performance as well as a significant reduction in glare.
Harvard GSD | Fall 2015 | Group of 3
