Kinetic Pavilion

Kinetic Pavilion is a student project by Yannick Bontinckx and Elise Elsacker done at MMLAB as part of the Parametric Design & Digital Fabrication elective.  Students where asked to explore different extensions to Grasshopper, a associative geometry modelling plug-in for Rhinoceros3D.  The scale model represents a pavilion that can change its configuration according to different inputs.  The strength of this project lies in  the working prototype rather then modelling a geometrical representation of a pavilion.  Relying on open-source hard and software it is desigend as a platform, a system which allows multiple sketches to be implemented.

The setup consist of 28 servo motors driven through two arduino micro-controllers. Several sketches or scripts can be uploaded to the model: Using Geco, data from Ecotect kan make it respond to weather and shading conditions, an attractor point can be controlled on the iPad communicating using gHow, abstract patterns animated in processing can control the motion over osc.

 

 

Next to organising and tutoring the course my main contribution was writing a processing code which can be found here:

http://www.openprocessing.org/visuals/?visualID=29565

 

role: tutor, organiser, programming

authors: Yannick Bontinckx and Elise Elsacker

collaborators: Tiemen Schotsaert

 

Jan 2011 | category: Project, Workshop | tags: arduino, digital fabrication, ecotect, firefly, ghowl, grasshopper, kinect, kinetic, mmlab, processing, reactive, servo