Posts Tagged ‘exterior’

Activ

Pilkington’s Activ glass uses the power of the sun to clean itself. Activ is manufactured with the same advanced pyrolytic technology used to produce glass panels for electronic and photovoltaic solar-cell applications. Activ loosens dirt, gradually breaking down organic residue with a special PhotoActiv...

February 3rd, 2006 | glass | Read More

Eco-Curtain

Inaba Electric Works has developed Eco-Curtain, a wind-powered system designed for integration in building facades. The curtain, displayed here above the entrance to a shopping mall in Nagoya, Japan, demonstrates a creative solution for environmentally-friendly power generation within a dense urban environment....

January 27th, 2006 | feature, metals | Read More

Trespa

Trespa Meteon is an extremely weather resistant panel material, unaffected by sunlight, rain – including “acid rain” – or moisture. The phenolic-based material is also highly impact resistant, and the surface of the panel has a closed structure, which does not attract dirt and makes deliberate...

January 10th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

T-OPAL

Our longing for summer and sunshine has not been answered too often this year. But no sooner do the sun’s rays make their way through the clouds, complaints abound about the heat and dazzling light this generates in our modern glass buildings. Venetian blinds, shutter blinds and curtains are rolled...

January 7th, 2006 | glass | Read More

Powermoon

Powermoon is a balloon-based lighting system suitable for road & railway infrastructure, outdoor events, entertainment, military, and search & rescue applications. Powermoon is packaged in a small, portable unit which may be quickly assembled on-site. Powermoon HQI lamps produce five times more...

December 22nd, 2005 | light | Read More

Image-Mesh

Image-Mesh is a video wall comprised of a plastic mesh embedded with tiny, pixel-addressable 3-in-1 RGB LEDs. Its panel structure is unobtrusive, lightweight, and may be easily erected and dismantled. It can be bent to a radius of 0.5m. Each 0.9m x 0.9m panel ‘module’ weighs just 1.5kg and...

December 9th, 2005 | light | Read More

Almute

Almute is an engineered metal panel that absorbs sound. Manufactured by Peer Inc., Almute represents the culmination of many years of development in advanced sintering and fine-grain metal processing. Peer Inc. mixes aluminum grains mixed with pre-alloyed metal powders and forms them into rigid panels...

November 18th, 2005 | metals | Read More

SmartSlab

The SmartSlab has been described as the world’s toughest digital video display for walls, floors, billboards and buildings. Each slab is designed in a honeycomb structure inspired by the optics of a fly’s eye. Instead of using standard pixels it uses hexels (hexagonal pixels) that provide...

November 11th, 2005 | interactive | Read More

Profilit

Pilkington Profilit is a translucent cast glass structural glazing system which consists of a series of self-supporting glass channels within an extruded metal perimeter frame. The system is relatively cost-effective, and well-suited for exterior and interior curved wall applications. The long, sweeping...

November 5th, 2005 | glass | Read More