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Design: Client: Year: Performed:
Liquid Shading TU Delft 2014 Prototype
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Liquid Shading
The liquid shading concept is the project of three students during the Buckylab program of the TU Delft. The means of the program was to reinvent the current shading principles and to add an extra layer to this all-day item. Our struggle was the fact that most shading principles also block the view inside the building. This might undesirable when the orientation of the window has an amazing view. Our concept was also based on the interior atmosphere of the building, where the colours of the light entering the building might set the mood in certain parts of the building.
Detailing and Testing
The core of this project was conceptualizing and prototyping a model of a sunshading principle where our project was focussed on creating a system which didn't block the view and filter the incoming light in to create an atmosphere inside the building. The concept was based on the principles of buoyancy, where a lighter liquid floats on a more heavy one. To use this principle we created a window which was based on a hidden reservoir which would hold the heavier fluid when rotated to the bottom of the frame and vice versa. The window was therefore designed in a modular fashion containing their own round frames holding the two liquids. My main concern in this concept was designing a suitable and user-friendly handling. To do so I researched multiple ways of operating the windows, from manual operable per window, to gears and eventually a belt pulley system which could operate multiple windows at once. By creating an operating module with big coloured disks to operate the windows by colour, an intuitive design was created. The design of the mechanical parts of the prototype was also a fruit of my labour. This prototype was based on the manual operable window in which the window are handled separately. Here my skill in woodwork and detailing increased significantly since the entire prototype had to be build in full scale in a working fashion. Handmade wooden slide bearing and liquid reservoir had to be build from scratch and are still in working order.
Specifications
Design: Client: Year: Performed:
Liquid Shading TU Delft 2014 Prototype
Links
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Detailing and Testing
, The core of this project was conceptualizing and prototyping a model of a sunshading principle where our project was focussed on creating a system which didn't block the view and filter the incoming light in to create an atmosphere inside the building. The concept was based on the principles of buoyancy, where a lighter liquid floats on a more heavy one. To use this principle we created a window which was based on a hidden reservoir which would hold the heavier fluid when rotated to the bottom of the frame and vice versa. The window was therefore designed in a modular fashion containing their own round frames holding the two liquids.
My main concern in this concept was designing a suitable and user-friendly handling. To do so I researched multiple ways of operating the windows, from manual operable per window, to gears and eventually a belt pulley system which could operate multiple windows at once. By creating an operating module with big coloured disks to operate the windows by colour, an intuitive design was created. The design of the mechanical parts of the prototype was also a fruit of my labour. This prototype was based on the manual operable window in which the window are handled separately. Here my skill in woodwork and detailing increased significantly since the entire prototype had to be build in full scale in a working fashion. Handmade wooden slide bearing and liquid reservoir had to be build from scratch and are still in working order.
