Energy-harvesting and Self-actuated Textiles in the Design of Domestic Spaces by Aurélie Mossé Aurélie Mossé │PhD Fellow │CITA │ Royal Academy of Fines

Energy-harvesting and Self-actuated Textiles in the Design of Domestic Spacesby Aurélie Mossé

Aurélie Mossé │PhD Fellow │CITA │ Royal Academy of Fines Arts │ Copenhagen │http://www.aureliemosse.com

Background

Aurélie Mossé [oreli mose] Pr.n.,f. 1. textile designer, Fr 2. Tex. Textile designer and researcher

MA Textile Futures (Central St Martins, London) (2008)

Professional Degree, Fashion & Design Environment(2006)

BA Surface, Material, Textile Design(ESAA Duperré, Paris) (2005)


[Exta]ordinary furniture – a collection of objects for domestic experience


PhD Tectonic Textiles – exploring the boundaries between textiles & architecture

www.tfrg.org.uk


PhD Tectonic Textiles – architectural textiles

Textiles that operate at a building scale (Christo) – Textiles principles applied to architecture processes (Nox)

Slow Furl by Mette Ramsgard& Karin Bech, CITA – Lily Pad, washable Arduino board

PhD Tectonic Textiles – how the design & use of smart textiles can be conceptualized, probed and implemented in an architectural context?

Research question: How energy-harvesting and self-actuated textiles can encourage a more sustainable home?



Questioning

● the role smart textiles can play in a domestic space.

● How they can be implemented in an architectural context to encourage a more sustainable lifestyle?

PhD Tectonic Textiles – Aims of the project


1 - Develop tangible scenarios for responsive textile architecture→ investigating energy-harvesting and self-actuated surface concepts

2 - Explore the potential of light responsive materials/technologies to challenge the conventional notion of home

3 – Testing the hypothesis through the production of cases studies / probes

4 – Assess the sustainable performance of the probes

5- Proposing innovative solutions about the embedment of energy-harvesting & self-actuating textiles in a domestic context/at architectural scale

PhD Tectonic Textiles – Objectives : sustainable living architecture


Conceptual Probe – paper simulation 1Scenario building

Origin of the project – Constellation Wallpaper, an energy-storage wallpaper

Conceptual Probe – paper simulation 2 Conceptual Probe – paper simulation 3

Context – Home as a territory of investigation

aneta grzeszykowska & jan smaga, serie plan

Context – Home : when textiles meet architecture

Transportable tent of Nganasan people, Siberia – Bedroom of Loos’ wife Lina, 1903 - View inside a court tent in Tabriz, western Iran, 1302

“the beginning of building coincides with the beginning of textiles […] It is certain that a kind of crude weaving began with the pen, as a means of dividing the “home”, the inner life from the outer life, as a formal construct of the spatial idea. It preceded the simple wall from stone or another material”

G.Semper

Do Ho Shu, 348 West 22nd street, Apt A, NY - Joe Berzowska, Skorpion dress – Ellis Ltd, Surgical implant – Maggie Orth Fuzzy Light Switch – BMW, Gina Light Visionary Model – Liquid Armor

Context – Home: under-exploited territory for smart textiles

M. Coelho,Sprout 1/0 - Automated technology solutions for houses, K. D.Brandon - R. Wingfield, Buried Light Wallpaper – Interactive Institute Goteborg, Interactive Pillows

Context – Smart & responsive : the future of the home?

“ But generally designers have not exploited the aesthetic & poetic dimensions of new materials with the same energy that engineers have exploited their functional possibilities[…] Most work in this area does not encourage poetic and cultural possibilities to converge

with practical and technical ones. ”

Anthony Dunne –Hertzian Tales

Context – Smart & responsive home: the future of the home?

Context – Energy-harvesting materials, towards a more sustainable home?

From Nano-architecture.net - Cochran & Wheeler Howes, Grow – Kennedy & Violin, Soft house

Hypothesis so far ...

Energy-harvesting & self-actuated materials can become the effective technologies that will encourage a more sustainable home

Material Matter – self-actuated materials

self-actuated materials Property change materials that operate a transformation in their molecular structure under the effect of an energy input, resulting in a change of behaviour (change of color, shape, elasticity etc)

Shape memory alloys – Electro-active polymer, TU Eindhoven – SMP reacting to light – M.Coelho

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Material Matter – Energy-harvesting materials

1 PowerPlastic®, flexible PV Konarka – 2 Powertex: printing PV cells – 3 Soft house, Kennedy & Violin – 4 DSC, dye-sensitive PV cells by Dyesol & Fraunhofer Institute

Energy-harvesting materials Materials with the ability to capture and store energy, among others solar power, thermal energy, wind energy, kinetic energy.

“design as a reflective action [Schoen 83] Rather than thinking problem solving as a process of solving predefined problems with a predefined knowledge set, design as a reflective practice is articulated as a dual mode of reflecting on action through action. As such the methods [will] includes an inherent ability to critically assess and creatively adjust the solution space of the research problem.”

Mette Ramsgard – Digital Crafting

Research Methodology – practice-based and design approach

Assumptions

Hypothesis / Can photovoltaic & shape memory materials can become the effective technologies that will encourage a more sustainable home?

Design Probe

Concept of responsive home

Material & technological Probe

Concept of self-generating and energy-harvesting

home

Demonstrator

Concept of energy –harvesting and self-

actuated home

Probe 1 Probe 2 Probe 3

Contextual Review / Framing of the project

Experiments

Design artefact as Conceptual Model Material Probe Working Prototype

Conclusions

Thesis

Definecriterions

for sustai-nable

home/design

Methodology

dvlpt

Evaluation Evaluation Evaluation

Research Process

Thank you!

Aurélie Mossé │PhD Fellow │CITA │ Royal Academy of Fines Arts , Architecture │ Copenhagen │ http://cita.karch.dk │http://www.aureliemosse.com

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Energy-harvesting and Self-actuated Textiles in the Design of Domestic Spaces by Aurélie Mossé Aurélie Mossé │PhD Fellow │CITA │ Royal Academy of Fines