Pixel Skin
Developed by Sachin Anshuman, Principal Organizer for the Intelligent Building Laboratory at GCU Glasgow and creator of Orange Void, Pixel Skin is a heterogeneous smart surface designed to regulate light, solar radiation and views, as well as display dynamic signage. Anshuman's prototype uses shape memory alloys (SMA) to actuate each of four triangular panels residing within a single module, and each surface acts as a "pixel" with 255 increments between open and closed states.
Pixel Skin is designed to create dynamic windows which allow views or control internal lighting conditions across the building membrane in response to particular subject states and their positions. The surface may also simultaneously be used to generate low resolution images, low refresh-rate videos, or abstract patterns.
A response to common conflicts encountered with daylighting and signage in contemporary architectural surfaces, Pixel Skin is a multi-layered electrographic surface which allows the integration of illumination and view controls with real-time communications media. [via Orange Void; suggested by Dieter Janssen, Toronto.]
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