Kinetic Architecture

Al Bahar Towers

Year of Completion : 2012
Floor area : 70,000 sq meter
Height : 145m

Arab World Institute

Floor area : 16,894 m2
Year of Completed : 1987

Blur Building

Year of Completion : 2002
Structure Dimension : 300 ft Wide X 200 ft Depth X 75 ft High
Capacity : 400 visitors

Milwaukee Art Museum

Year of Construction : 2001
Structure: 217 ft moveable sunscreen
72 steel sensor embedded fins in 26 to 105 ft length
Movement : 3.5 minutes for wings to close and open

One Ocean, Thematic Pavilion EXPO 2012

Year of Construction : 2012
Kinetic Facade : Knippers Helbig, Stuttgart
Climate Design : Transsolar, Stuttgart Munchen New York
Structural Engineer: Brandstatter ZT GmbH, Salzburg
Light Design: podpod, Vienna

Kolding Campus, University of Southern Denmark

Floor area : 13,700 sq m
Kinetic movement : 1600 perforated metal sunshade panels

Sliding House

Dimension of Moving Roof: 52ft long, 20ft wide and 23ft high

The exterior walls and roof of this house are actually a second skin that slides across a longitudinal axis to reveal a second facade. Sliding back and forth, the mobile exterior offers the house's residents incredible flexibility with the look and behavior of the building. The lighting and mood of the interior spaces can be altered with the simple movement of the exterior.

Delta Shelter - A Transforming Cabin

Size: 1,000 Square Feet

The 1000-square-foot cabin in Mazama, Washington is made of steel and is raised above a floodplain in a wooded valley. When the Delta Shelter's owner is in residence, four 10' x 18' wall panels, or "shutters," can be rolled back, opening the whole house to the outdoors. The mechanism for opening these shutters is human-powered. A system that includes drive shafts, u-joints, spur gears and cables allows users to simply turn a hand wheel to simultaneously open the four sides of the building, revealing floor-to-ceiling glazed walls.

Opening the shutters transforms the house from a closed box to a transparent and penetrable form.