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Architecture That Changes Shape In Response To Heat
An anonymous reader writes "A group of students at Barcelona's Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya has created a functioning prototype of architecture that adapts to environmental inputs. "The project, Translated Geometries, tackles the idea by developing a new use for Shape Memory Polymers, a composite material that can deform and return to its original state when activated by cues like heat, humidity and light." The idea is this: create a wall or a roof out of a series of folded triangles. At low temperatures, the roof would be in its folded state, laying mostly flat. When exposed to heat, the creases would flex and expand, unfolding the roof and giving it a much greater surface area, thereby increasing its convective cooling. As it cools, it folds back down into a smaller shape."
The roof gets hot, so it expands, thereby exposing much more surface to the sunlight.
Nope. It's exposing a larger area to roughly the same amount of sunlight.
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How is this considered a good thing?
From TFS:
thereby increasing its convective cooling.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
House I'm living in now is 40 years old or a bit more.
House I lived in previously was 50 years old, or a bit more.
Only people I know personally who live in a house less than ten years old just built the house....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
I'd rather use thermochromic paints.
You might be able to find other references, but here is a whole study. http://heatisland2009.lbl.gov/...
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
Oh look, a 370 year old house made of wood.
Building a house out of wood doesn't automatically mean that it'll fall down in 10 years. If a wood framed structure fails that early, the fault lies either with the architectural planning or the use of low quality wood that isn't suitable for construction.