Mirrored facade speaks mechanical reflections

Everyone knows that the pieces of broken mirrors perfectly reflect the situation no worse than a mirror. But in childhood, none of you tried to re-move pieces of glass to get a picture? Something similar is now able to creators dynamic facade.



Skyscrapers, the walls are composed entirely of glass, many blamed for the inconspicuous appearance, but they have at least one visual advantage in front of the brick and concrete: they can "change" appearance, depending on the color of the sky. Does it run on the clouds, or the weather is clear, the facade of "mirror" the skyscraper will reflect itself in all this beauty.

But what if you make the next logical step? Let the different parts of the facade to reflect the different sky, surrounding buildings, earth and asphalt. Let these reflections to live their lives constantly changing. Finally, make a wall on a building to run light and dark stripes, waves, circles. And even if such a variation to multiply on the volatility of the sky ...

It is this enchanting spectacle is able to provide an interesting thing called Flare Facade. How it works, best seen in this video.




Intricate angles and facets of one such plate allow build one "screen" that can close the facade of any shape, even though, at least waved.

Well, change the brightness of "pixels" in the "screen" has a very simple way. Each mirror unit mounted on an axis and can vary from a small angle by means of a pneumatic actuator.

When the surface is "pixel" is oriented vertically to the ground observer, it reflects the bright sky. Well, if pneumatic cylinders tilt steel block down - it will already reflect the land. So turn out the light and dark dots on the "screen".

Of course, controls the deviation of all elements of the computer, which can provide a reproduction of any figure - albeit a static image, though the animation. Speed drives, you can create on the surface of the facade is quite lively picture.