Embracing the Elements: Weather-Sensitive Architecture
Ryerson School of Interior Design Professor Filiz Klassen has produced a series of building skins to create responsive structures which can be described as hot, cold, wet or dry. (Ryerson University)Buildings typically provide shelter from the elements, but one Ryerson University researcher thinks structures ought to relate more to the environment instead. To this end she has created architectural “skins,” which interact with the weather to ultimately create environmental structures that integra
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