BioFacade
Bromeliad Neoregelia
This project is a replacement to the facade of the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. It was an excerise in creating a biomimetic facade that was responsive to the environment in some way. This facade collects and displays water; as such through research, the organism that was discovered was the tropical plant Bromeliad Neoregelia which, because its roots are so shallow, collects water by having its leaves form a vase. This idea was almost taken literally by having a series of petal shapes extrude from the concrete facade, the smallest petals were at the top and the largest were at the bottom. This was done so that the maximum amount of rainwater could be collected. As most of the time it does not rain enough for the petals to overflow, the water would then flow down acrylic tubes behind each petal. The final "panel," a small to-scale version of the entire facade, was put on display in an exhibition during a biomimicry event. The petals were originally made using Rhinoceros 4.0 and then 3D printed.
The Panel by itself.
Close-up of the leaves.
Close-up of the panel in the installation.
A view of my part of the installation.
Close-up of the facade in the projection mapping. The leaves are made out of burgandy acrylic, the tubes the water flows down is clear acrylic, the support that holds the facade to the wall is Cor-TEN steel, and the building exteriror is concrete.
The projection mapping by itself.
Projection mapping on site.
