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welcome to the beginning of Robotic Architecture. Thinking outside of the box, how can robotics be incorporated into architecture? We already have a sensored lights, and in Bill Gates' situation-a personalized heat adaption device which automatically adapts the temperature of a room to the occupant's personal likings.

Here we explore the use of a blockade, in this case-a wall, which can transform in to something beatuiful to allow a person to transition through. And so the design begins

possible locations

Because the de Young Museum in San Francisco already consist of outdoor art pieces, adding the flockwall will engage the visitors even more with the site and location.

design idea

As a possible design idea, the "birds" can be string together and hing along a motorized pivot, thus allowing for the "birds" to pivot and rotate along an axis. however, this does not allow for much of an organic movement nor does it allow the bird to move in any other axis.

bird formation

As a possible bird design, using the software Rhino, I designed a more abstract version of a bird and created a more linear bi curved piece.

Flockwall conceptual animation

To get an idea of how the movement of the birds should be, we each created a series of animation to see how the birds should maneuver the structure

conceptual flockwall animation

And thus began the tedious task of creating multiple animations to clearly convey our ideas.

The end product

For images of the end product at Coachella Music Festival. Please visit our final website at:
http://robotecture.com/flockwall/exhibit/

And for photos of our process, please visit our process website at:
http://robotecture.com/flockwall/process/