Dynamic fabric surface
Kinetic Wall is a dynamic fabric surface created for the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. The wall’s movement is activated by a series of motorized points that extend and retract, transforming an elastic, translucent textile into a topographical section of peaks and valleys. A digitally controlled choreography enables endless surface patterns that emerge slowly, then recede and change. This visual effect is further enhanced by the two layers of gridded fabric which produce a moiré effect.
Kinetic Wall creates a new kind of malleable poché and is supported by a space frame containing a mechanical plenum. The lightweight laminated timber scaffolding is an anchoring framework for the fabric and houses the mechanisms that activate the surface. The Kinetic Wall is a conceptual proposal for an architecture that is both materially and spatially fluid, and which is made of both natural and synthetic materials.
Contact: Barkow Leibinger, Berlin, Germany.
