1st Sketch finished and Homeostatic Facade System

This is my first architectural sketch. The Taj Majal…

My next sketches are going to be of the following: spiral stair, a bicycle, a chair, and shoes.

Those are the objects that are required for the portfolio to get into architecture or interior design.

I already started the spiral stairs so I will be done very soon J I like this sketching thing its very soothing.   

Taj Majal

And now for one of the craziest thing I have found. A breathing building. The building is covered with a "homeostatic facade system"  which works as a thermal control system that uses mechanical-muscle operated, exterior surface-mounted louvers and is a feature of Decker Yeadon Architects' intelligent green-building architectural design.

 If you see the video of this building you will see how the crazy design and materials of the facade moves to reflect the sun´s heat. 

The Homeostatic Façade uses polymer and elastomer louvers with a silver coating that open when illuminated by the sun, and close again as the sun’s heating effect wanes. The dielectric silver-elastomer forms an actuator that responds to an electric charge on the silver surface proportional to the amount of incident sunlight.

This is a close-up of the facade:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CThFRt95aI