LIVING SKIN WALL TECHNOLOGY

living wall facade

FLAREis a modular system Is the system which can  create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment. FLARE turns the building facade into a penetrable kinetic membrane, breaking with all conventions of the building surface as a static skin.   


   FLARE units

 The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies supplemented by individually controllable pneumatic cylinders.
 Due to the developed pattern, an infinite array of flakes can be mounted on any building or wall surface in a modular system of multiplied FLARE units. 

flare units

 Each metal flake reflects the bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position.

When the flake is tilted downwards by a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded from the sky light and this way appears as a dark pixel.  

The system is controlled by a computer to form any kind of surface animation. Sensor systems inside and outside the building communicate the buildings activity directly to the FLARE system which acts as the buildings lateral line. 

By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight, the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light.