Nitinol prototype for "shape memory architecture"

Architectural prototype made by students at the workshop held at CITA, at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Thanks to Mette Ramsgard Thomsen. Collaborators: Joanna Berzowska, XS Labs in Montreal, Canada,
Marcello Coello, MIT Media Lab
Textiles, Danmarks Design School
Afdeling 2, KARCH
Date December 2006
The workshop invited a cross disciplinary group of students from Department 2 and Textiles at Danmarks Design School to explore the embedding of reactive 'smart' materials into the bespoke membranes developed in the Knitted Skins work-shop.
Memory polymers are used for suture in keyhole surgery and can be purchased in sheets but also in fluid state for casting. Using the mem-branes developed by the students in the first two workshops the idea is to embed or en-knit the memory polymers into the structure and use simple trigger to activate their state change.

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• xslabs
• berzowska
• architecture
• nitinol
• smart
• textile
• electronic
• fabric
• shape
• memory
• alloy

[abbrivi8]

love nitinol. got some my self. how do you get it to do 2 foarms or is that a special type of nitinol. i know there are many. i have been designing stuff incorpoating it and if i can have 2 shapes in its memory that owuld improve them greatly. also when i use it it gets realy hot when i am useing electricity. is this becouse i have the rong volts or amps or something?

[david203]

More information, please. Just looks like a mess to me.

[mishuyang]

hey what's the material's name of that?did u guys use electricty to finish the activation?

[cuafg]

thanks for the video, its great! is there any link- video project, similar to this one? :)