Team designs 35-foot smart structure that responds to people interacting with it. Winner of MIT's first mini-skyscraper design competition, "Muscles" is the brainchild of four graduate arch students known collectively as the WhoWhatWhenAir skyscraper team.
The team was awarded $7,000 to build its tower, which will be on view at MIT through May 21. In a full-scale tower, such active structural components would be used to cancel out movement and stabilize a tall structure against changing forces from wind or earthquakes.
MIT News
Via WM$NA>Responsive Architecture
Follow the erection process on their blog, musclesfrombrussels
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It is indeed a giant 'erection'. Another piece that reinforces the idea of skyscrapers in general.
...if you get the pun.
Very good! Now this is a sweet model. Tired of hearing about "responsive" skin architecture and not seeing anything. This is great want to see more!
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