Living Architecture Spring 2007 Pratt

These are the videos of our continued umbrella piece experiment. Here we attached two flexional wires to the umbrella to control the movement of the arm. One wire would lift the umbrella arm while the other would retract it. The second video also shows our attempt at hybridizing the styrene tube piece and the umbrella in order to generate a more controlled movement in the arm. Our latest experiment is taking a Frei Otto inspiration an applied to our process. This is done by adding the flexional wire through pieces of plexi-glass that is attached to a styrene rod. We also looked at how a difference in battery voltage would affect the movement of the piece.

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