PROJECT : Inflatable Shading Device

This page exists to document the ISD project made by Mario di Sibio, Stefano Nastasi and Matthieu Brossette during the DFP workshop of DBD Mastere at ENPC

Introduction

The project is related to environmental awareness in building design. We aim at providing a shading system for facade Inspired by inflatable architecture and folding technics, we wondered about a way to shade buildings when temperature goes too high on a facade.

Inspiration

We got strong inspiration from origami folding art. By looking a bit further into architecture field, we observe that this technic is already used to enhance building properties, and to go from a static to a dynamic behavior of buildings. The inflatable and elastic properties of some materials, like plastic of fabric, is also considered here to enjoy a low-energy-consumption transformation of building parts.