San Diego Airport has unveiled their permanent interactive artwork DAZZLE on the Airport’s Rental Car Centre commissioned by San Diegos County Regional Airport Authority, that features the debut of E Ink's revolutionary prism technology on a large architectural scale. The installation has been designed to manipulate the form of the façade using inspiration from the World War I military technique “razzle dazzle” that camouflaged the outlines of ships. This phenomenon of visually scrambling the shapes to hide from being spotted can be witnessed in nature too, as the stripes on a zebra equally become an optical illusion to disrupt the predator’s perception.
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This E-Paper Tile Facade Is Inspired by the WW1 Military Optical Illusion "Razzle Dazzle"
https://www.archdaily.com/887248/this-e-paper-tile-facade-is-inspired-by-the-ww1-military-optical-illusion-razzle-dazzleElla Thorns
This Modular Green Wall System Generates Electricity From Moss
IaaC Student Elena Mitrofanova, working alongside biochemist Paolo Bombelli has created a proposal for a facade system that utilizes the natural electricity-generating power of plants. Consisting of a series of hollow, modular clay "bricks" containing moss, the system takes advantage of new scientific advances in the emerging field of biophotovoltaics (BPV) which Mitrofanova says "would be cheaper to produce, self-repairing, self-replicating, biodegradable and much more sustainable" than standard photovoltaics.
https://www.archdaily.com/782664/this-modular-green-wall-system-generates-electricity-from-mossRory Stott
HALO: Swedish Students' Solar Decathlon Entry
Designed and built by 25 students from Chalmers University in Sweden, HALO is a socially sustainable home for four students, running on renewable energy from the sun. HALO was designed using one underlying concept: shared space is double space.
https://www.archdaily.com/432984/halo-swedish-students-solar-decathlon-entryEric Baldwin