Kinetic Pavilion

The Kinetic Pavilion by Elise Elsacker and Yannick Bontinkx

This project orients itself on the development of a new kind of pavilion that’s capable of acting upon changing weather conditions, human movement or human moods/mindsets. It’s shape has been made dependable of ecological choices and parameters extracted from the pavilion’s surroundings. Just like every other organism, this new prototype changes itself when parameters take on other values. - text provided by authors.  For more information, make sure to check out their website.

How it works:

1. Input: Ipad, Ecotect, Processing (sine function, webcam, twitterfeeds,…)

2. Process:
a) input parameters are sent through OSCTouch , gHowl, geco GH2Ecotect and UPD to Grasshopper.
b) Different kinds of data are translated into height coordinates.
c) These processed coordinates are sent through Firefly to an Arduino-board

3. Output:
a) Arduino controls 28 servos
b) Spur gears translate these coordinates into a vertical movement, controlling the roof structure.