Flectofold – Towards A Soft Robotic Skin
This video demonstrates the design Development, prototyping, evaluation, fabrication & installation of an Elastic-Kinetic Material-Gradient Facade Shading System : FlectoFold. The Large scale demonstrator is being exhibited as part of BauBionik Exhibition at Natural History Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. DESIGN…
This video demonstrates the design Development, prototyping, evaluation, fabrication & installation of an Elastic-Kinetic Material-Gradient Facade Shading System : FlectoFold.
The Large scale demonstrator is being exhibited as part of BauBionik Exhibition at Natural History Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
Saman Saffarian
SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT
Larissa Born, Axel Körner, Anja Mader, Renate Sachse, Saman Saffarian, Gundula Schieber, Anna Westermeier, Dr. Simon Poppinga, Dr. Simon Schleicher
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Sandie Kate Fenton, Dongyuan Liu, Tessa Rudolph, Behrooz Tahanzadeh, James Solly, Ramon Weber, Valentin Koslowski
ITKE Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design
University of Stuttgart
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Knippers
ITFT Institute for Textile and Fiber Technologies
University of Stuttgart
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Götz T. Gresser
PBG Plant Biomechanics Group, Botanical Garden
University of Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck
IBB Institute for Structural Mechanics
University of Stuttgart
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manfred Bischoff