Thursday, October 7, 2010

A Commercial Plaza, Gulberg, Lahore

A French Modern House

Facebook Office Lobby

Apartment Complex, Australia

Isabella's Little Pink House

Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

A graceful Jeddah Villa

Kobe Houses, Japan

I.T. Park Building, Lahore - 01

San Francisco Houses

Tenerife Concert Hall, Spain

I.T. Park Building, Lahore

DLF House, Hyderabad, India

Traditional Balcony, Barcelona

Boat Houses, California

The Netherlands' Farm House

Ravi Restaurant - Lahore

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

A Jeddah Bank - 02

Flare Facade - A Berlin Structure


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.


FLARE turns the building facade into a penetrable kinetic membrane, breaking with all conventions of the building surface as a static skin.


The FLARE 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.



The system is controlled by a computer to form any kind of surface animation. Sensor systems inside and outside the building communicate the buildings activity directly to the FLARE system which acts as the buildings lateral line.


Each metal flake reflects the bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position.
When the flake is tilted downwards by a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded from the sky light and this way appears as a dark pixel.



Source : http://www.flare-facade.com/
By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight, the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light.

A Jeddah Cafe



A Jeddah Bank - 01



A Bank Building in Jeddah