Dynamic Composite Cladding

Dynamic Composite Cladding is a collaborative research project that attempts to recast typical low cost cladding as a high performance, customized system. The focus of this research is to produce a next generation cladding system that departs from the conventional environmental and aesthetic thinking for a building façade. The composite cladding is designed to be a dynamically responsive yet inert facade system with a very low cost of production and installation. While the primary challenge for the system may be understood as being an environmentally responsive wall assembly without mechanical actuation — the aesthetic performance is positioned as an equal priority by applying complex visual design logics as surface topology. The research emerged out of a partnership established between an advanced composites manufacturing company, an architecture firm and the academy.