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Penn Design | Fall 2012 | Halee Bouchehrian

Architecture 301: Biomimicry

 
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A study of motion

“Architecture is not a synchronizing phenomenon, but a gradual unfolding. It consists of a sequence of tableux, associated in time and space. Like music it is a means of conceiving time.” - Le Corbusier

A study of the musculature and anguilliform motion of the lamprey. As an early chordate, the lamprey triggers individual muscle sections, or myomeres, in succession through a regular nerve pulse traveling its spinal chord, resulting in the animal’s movement along a sine wave frequency. 

Focusing on the range of motion of individual myomere muscle segments, one can calculate the ratio of a sine wave amplitude to the length of the lamprey, resulting in 4/9.

 

Early drafting Studies

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Anguilliform motion study

Anguilliform motion study

Muscular sequential motion study

Muscular sequential motion study

 

Motion Study Models

Muscular analog model

Muscular analog model

 

Translation of analog concept to design of kinetic solar shade

Design of a kinetic shade for University of Pennsylvania’s Quain Engineering Courtyard referencing the motion studies of the lamprey

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kinetic study model

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Position and range of solar shade kinetic motion set to adjust to hourly changes in solar glare