Month: April 2008

Fabric Popularity Contest

Bon Bon Kakku from the Finnish fabric and interior manufacturer Vallila Interior is a website where you can design your own fabric. The most popular fabrics designs, based on user voting, get created and sold on the site. The minimum order is 3 by 1 meter at 25 Euros a meter so choose carefully. I […]

Living skin breathes life into building facades

Living skin breathes life into building facades

The FLARE system is a modular dynamic display for building facades that acts like a “living skin” to allow the building to “communicate” with its environment. The surface, controlled by a computer, consists of a series of tiltable metal flakes and controllable pneumatic cylinders that act as pixels based on their tilt in relation to […]