WIND AND AIR
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| Wall ripples with the wind |
California designer, Ned Kahn, creates innovative kinetic materials with his building facades that allow them to respond to and evoke natural elements. In 2002, he worked with the staff of Technorama, the major science center in Switzerland, and their architects, Durig and Rami, to create a facade for the building which is composed of thousands of aluminum panels that move in the air currents and reveal the complex patterns of turbulence in the wind.
Video shows Technorama Facade moving and flowing based on wind patterns
Articulated Cloud - Pittsburgh Childrens Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. 2004
Composed of thousands of translucent, white plastic squares that move in the wind, the artwork is intended to suggest that the building has been enveloped by a digitized cloud.
WATER
The Tipping Wall is an art piece by Ned Kahn and is located at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. The artwork is a surface treatment on a cooling tower in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands. The Tipping Wall, located at the cooling tower adjacent to the southern end of the hotel features 7,000 mechanical polycarbonate tipping water channels on a large glass reinforced concrete wall about the size of a basketball court. Water running down the glass reinforced concrete wall will splash out and animate the white tipping channels which will be supported by stainless steel pins. The channels are supported by ball bearing so that they can tip. As each channel fills with water, it must "decide" to tip either left or right, like a seesaw and spill water into either of the two channels below it. Thus the entire array becomes an interrelated web of water decisions. Water will be recovered at the catchment area below the tippers and re-circulated to the distribution trough..
Video shows reflected ripples moving up the building facade
Water ripples spread up theTempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ while mirrors create random sparkles like light hitting the surface of water
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