Shingler
The built environment generates 47% of the global carbon footprint those split between building, materials, and construction. Façade with a complex morphology produces a lower carbon footprint due to insulation and radiation scattering properties compared to a classic flat façade. Manufacturing of such consume energy and material resources due to the use of molds and low suitability for transportation.
SHINGLER, designed to meet climate challenges, suggests a new fabrication approach of a complex morphology façade using morphing clay.
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The project is a development of a material research by Arielle Blonder and Shira Shoval.
Morphing matter, like a rose petal shape itself by embedded internal stress into a desired shape. Morphing clay made by firing of two joint clay types with different shrinkage rate. those cause geometrical incompatibilities that resolve into a 3D shape. A research and refine of the parameters affecting the morphing clay made in collaboration with Prof. Earn Sharon’s Physics Lab of HUJI.
The façade designed for hot climate combine two passive cooling strategies. In its global geometry, a traditional desert construction methods such as wind tunnels; at the surface, hydrogel applied to the clay grooves, absorbing the dew, and permeating it through the clay, thus cooling the surrounding.
Using parametric code, a complex surface convert into shingling tiles and generate manufacturing instructions of the complex tiles to an on-site production line
Auto analyzing of the Water flow directions
Design a complex surface
Sub-divide the surface into a controllable domain
Transforming the tiles in one direction
Transforming the tiles in another direction
Extruding the tiles