Articulated Cloud by Ned Kahn

[SuperDogbrown]

really informative and interesting

[bonghom]

how to deal with the strong noise by wind?

[bittercokejjang]

omg

[barryfarrimond]

Beautiful.

[racmop1]

love this going to see this first hand soon

[karamerak]

=== Nice design :)......... Not so sci fci or not so expensive but sure has style



[sac78008]

An awful lot of dead pixels, there.

[id104335409]

FLOPY!

[martinaldaco]

I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE IN MY HANDS THE CONTRACT OF MANTEINANCE OF THAT BUILDING... I WOULD BE RICH!!!!!

[juancarlos50714]

ES LO MEJOR QUE HE VISTO

[sohoarchitecture]

amazing idea

[georgef551]

Where a 15MPH breeze sounds like a cat 4 hurricane is rolling through.

Looks nice on the outside, but I don't think they took noise into consideration.

[Missmuimuimui]

@georgef551 thats apart of the acoustical atmosphere. intentional

[georgef551]

@Missmuimuimui

I'd hate to be there on a very windy day. :)

[Sashadigsweed]

Beautiful and amazing.

[Muscari]

I gotta say this is the kind of architecture that I like. Not based giant digital screens, but on physical models that react to the evironment. The noise might be a little much at times though.

[furvert101]

they got something like this at the bart station at SFO... but the tile things that move are alot smaller (about 1 inch each) and looks like water ripples... its pretty cool!

[eastbayraised]

@furvert101 the one at the SFO Bart Station was also done by Ned Kahn - check him out - his work is global. He is amazing!!

[coastsj]

:54 mark is beautiful

[satweavers]

Very elegant! Simple. It looks as though the flaps get stuck in the up position. A little spring return would help that. 20-20 hindsight.

[mllejcruble]

so beautiful

[MrHardcorerap]

how about some LED lighting...?

[TheSnotrag2009]

that is beautiful

[sweinundhundherz]

pete, our taxes dollars at work, probably. But don't forget, this was put together during the Bush administration. I say this because I am almost certain that where you were going with your comment had to do something with Obama. So stop it!

And even if it is "our" tax dollars at work, what's wrong with a little art and ingenuity in our lives? Moving on....

[Nolansykinsley]

@sweinundhundherz possibly installing art can raise surrounding property values thus generating more tax dollars in the long run.

[furvert101]

@Nolansykinsley which may not be fun, but would help to establish a better economy in the future...

[sahayneemoonbow]

@sweinundhundherz 

[m2thehead]

its to loud

[pete43323]

our tax dollars at work,,im sure,,,

[xoen6]

pete43323, maybe smaller bombs production would help it then, eh?

[llluuuccc]

@pete43323

it wouldn't be that expensive and it is a practice of stastainable architecture so it helps reduce the money you pay in a way.

[gleneth00]

wow its like a visualisation of wind

[ogfunk187]

DAMN, I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THIS!!!

[asdasdasdasdasdas98]

i could cover my house in bin bags to create the same effect :-)

[TonyZXT]

please do, then post a vid!

[motherginsling]

You should cover yourself in a bin bag and crawl into a bin, no matter wich, you're unrecyclable.

[quiteobserver]

kinda useless, huh ??

[Wiktus1990]

Isnt that too noisy?

[ybunnygurl]

there is a tall office building near me that has this on its lower levels, you cant hear it over the city noises.

[theambassadork]

looks like some sort of Nintendo 64 cloud...

[ARCHITECTnato]

Wow nice job!

This are ideas that make revolution.

simple and elegant.

[MelissaAyr]

This is awesome. I love the way the clouds move over teh building and how you can feel it in the building. The natural organic way it moves with the wind.

Melissa Ayr

[tallerdefreddy]

Fantastic work! Stunning and brilliant!!

[Harrik2akoz]

just add some piezo there, and you got the energy front for all the building...

[80schild89]

very cool yes, very noisy more so yes. maybe the panels can work t harnes wind enerdy or someting

[ueberRegenbogen]

Nice to get some close shots of the elements.

I'd like to see something like this that shows radio energy dispersion patterns (maybe involving an LED cube, with voxels lighting different colours per frequency).

[moonmaan]

love this  it reminds me of a building here in chicago that has a facade reminiscent of water waves

[im4wur]

wrt: "it reminds me of a building here in chicago that has a facade reminiscent of water waves" - What building is that?

[russ1618]

beautiful, it's like clouds (peter gabriel--"downside up"--plays in the background)

[justejust]

What is the building for, I wonder? That sound... couldn't be inside for too long

[phielies]

who is the designer? and what is the building called? btw it looks amazing!

[dthreat]

The Building is the Pittsburgh Childrens Museum. The design was a collaboration between Ned Khan and the architects, Koning / Eizenberg.

[phielies]

great! thanx!

[moonmaan]

is this permanent then?

[dthreat]

Yes.

[acerb45666555]

toronto has a nice gold glass building!

[Panzersoldat]

I would love to see this type of kinetic art installed on the outsides of parking structures in large cities, turning what are normally semi-eyesores of a building into fantastic works of art. Kudos to Ned Kahn for coming up with such a brilliant idea! Now if only they could make those aluminum panels out of functioning solar panels....hmmmm :)

[im4wur]

Nice comments (all three). I wonder if the kinetic energy could be utilized for something other than their beauty.

Hmm, I wonder what sunlight looks like reflected off those panels. Reflected sun on water?

[moonmaan]

each panel could be hooked to a small dynamo-like motor, or reactor that could send pulses of energy that would be receivable, and most likely storable in a battery

it wouldn't be that much energy, but it would maybe be enough to power the lights for an hour or a couple of hours for instance.

and of course wind isn't constant

[im4wur]

Certainly feasible. - However, it seems like a lot of moving parts. (I don't know, just speculating).

Personally, I prefer the simplicity of: "Solar, Wind-Powered 'Seagull' Streetlight by Panasonic" - ( watch?v=cTmbKI-dS_w )

[im4wur]

wrt: "lot of moving parts" - That's a poor choice of words on my part. However, I'm trying to speak to the issue of complexity.

[im4wur]

It would be intersting to add colored LEDs that lit as a function of wind force (nighttime displays).

[ShiftingStars]

theres not actually a cloud, its the wind lifting up the metal flaps, creating the illusion of clouds or a cloud

[fassadenkuenstler]

Coole Fassade.fehlt nur noch Farbe :-)

[7r33fr0g]

Neat. Seeing what is normally unseen.

[koowaa]

i was wondering how will all the moving parts hold up to the constant shifting about. But who cares! its gorgeous!

[Potatool]

BEautiful art!

[Jody118118]

In southern spain in the time of the moors they used to bounce light off mercury to create a type of shimmering effect over their patternated walls.

I guess the idea is to create a building that isn't rigid, fixed or solid, but temporal or flowing. Which is a contradiction, buildings are usually about solidity.

[conzept123]

VERY cool. Looks more like water than a cloud to me though. The loudness of it would drive me crazy.

[dancingwithoutwords]

That's AWESOME!! IT'S POETRY in MOTION

[killersushi99]

We have one of these on a parking deck near uptown...it flows with the wind very cool.

[Anonymiter]

The idea was good.. but short of housing a factory I don't see how it'd be functional. It was fun to look at though!

[WaldoDANGERparish]

it's not supposed to really be functional.

it's art.

[adrastea99]

he uses Picasso as a blanket

[VideyoJunkei]

nice! a shame quite a few squares seem 'stuck' though!

[daybreak86]

lovely and fun :)

but are the noises bothering?

[angud2000]

exactly, that's what I was thinking too. Maybe a 3 layered glass can act as insulation -> (then it will cost more - well, one way or the conventional way).

[jawsquid]

incredibly cool

[mcandp2]

the dynamic nature of this structure was very interesting to see first-hand.

[darkito81]

is such a leaves noise! great!

[se4821]

nice

[ringelyi]

amazing