Miura Ori Skin

Shell of the New Earth.

“Lung’s see what your eyes don’t”

“It’s like gambling, a lucky draw. Every day you wake up and look up at the sky and see how it goes. We’re powerless,”

“It was so sudden and we didn’t have time to plan anything,”

These were the words of the people living in Beijing on one of the capital’s first issued “Red Alert” days. This wasn’t a city under siege, this is a city under smog – dangerous levels of it.

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New Earth IAAC_Miura Ori Skins2 Imagine a world so polluted you have zero visibility at 5m. The air is toxic , so is the water and the food. Homo sapiens are evolving to the new earth, as a result there is no verbal communication between the people. They have developed a second skin which lets them see through the smog, their faces are covered with masks. This is the atmosphere they live in, which has resulted in them being depressed. The skin becomes the communicating layer, as people are at close proximity with others the skin responds. Emotions are expressed by the vibrations created through skin. The skin is evolved to be thermochormic. This is the “New Earth” resultant of the today we are living.

Materiability
Based on the final system for the proposed skin design, the Material and Fabrication techniques decided are as follows:
– Fabric: Laser cutting / Folding
– Thermochromics: Screen Printing
– 3D Printing: SLS nylon / Mold casting

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Fabric

Miura Fold / Origami
The Miura fold is a form of rigid origami, meaning that the fold can be carried out by a continuous motion in which, at each step, each parallelogram is completely flat. This property allows it to be used to fold surfaces made of rigid materials.

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Bi-stable Origami
Bi-stable Auxetic structure
Bi-stable structures are structures that have two different stable configurations. Due to this interesting and distinguishing property, they are gaining popularity in deploy-able structures, robotics and micro-structural systems.

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Thermochromics
Screen Printing
The Miura fold is a form of rigid origami, meaning that the fold can be carried out by a continuous motion in which, at each step, each parallelogram is completely flat. This property allows it to be used to fold surfaces made of rigid materials. Thermochromism is the property of substances to change color due to a change in temperature. The two common approaches are based on liquid crystals and leuco dyes. Liquid crystals are used in precision applications, as their responses can be engineered to accurate temperatures, but their color range is limited by their principle of
operation.

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