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The house that SHAPESHIFTS: Designers create ‘origami’ model building that expands and contracts depending on the temperature
- Researchers at Barcelona’s Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya have designed a prototype structure that can change shape
- When it is heated above 60°C it expands and grows into a new form
- Drones and gravity can also be used to pull it into different arrangements
- When it cools it solidifies in the new position and flattens when heated again
- While only a prototype for now the researchers say it could one day lead to structures that can be moulded into different shapes
- The designers say it could be used to make changeable spaces such as shelters or pavillions
In the future will it be possible to have houses that expand and contract as it gets hotter and colder?
That’s the dream of a team of students who have designed a shape-shifting prototype that can bend and twist at high temperatures.
The structure responds to temperature changes which could allow for future constructions that can be shape-shifted as needed using heat-carrying wires embedded in the structures.
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