Moving Architecture

Hi team, 
As you know, Russell has placed some links for you to his pinterest board which contains some inspiration for you in relation to how your building might move. I found it helpful to look through some of the suggested ideas that Pinterest included after Russells blog as well.


Think laterally. 
Don't just show a door opening and closing, nor a lift going up and down... I know you can do better than that

....try to think about how your facade might be able to move. Can some of it hinge open, or hinge up, or twist around, or slide over itself. Does it move as the sun moves, acting as shading. Does it move for a special purpose, to change a space from one thing to another?

.... perhaps the facade has light images over it, or changes without the built elements moving, through the use of light or smoke

... look at some ideas of folding paper to show how one shape could become another . Here's some folding origami which changes shape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S2wJ3NK__o

.....is there something that moves on another object in your home, and you can adapt those ideas to use on your building? Jean Nouvel was inspired by a camera lens opening when he designed the Arab World Institute. Here's a bit of a dry youtube clip, but you get the point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ9FAwAmt98

.....perhaps there's something in your building that you need some times but not all the time that could fold away, slide away or lift away. Here's a stair that I'm using in one of my projects to access an attic space. A local Sydney manufacturer with an inventive mind....
www.bcompact.com  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwl5P9DTVg0 

... could your moving part be in the landscape...the movement of water perhaps, or the notion of plants growing over time that form an integrated part of your architecture.

... is your moving part separated from the building itself... These are some of the strangest things Ive seen for a while. Walking sculptures by Theo Jansen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-NqWDH2qE

....Or is it purely decorative.... like Phil Prices wind sculptures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmSzxelt_c0

I hope some of these ideas will inspire some inventive moving parts.
I cant wait to see what you all come up with for next week.