NED KAHN
Ned Kahn’s Articulated Clouds was the first of large scale wind-kinetic architecture facades. It creates extraordinary visual effects from the wind. The tuberlance that created by the wind ultimately generated a exciting experience both visually and acoustically.
Museum in which the artist Ned Kahn cooperated with architects Koning/Eizenberg, the museum’s staff, contractors, and a plastics manufactorer. The whole party was there and because it was no longer just one party’s brainchild, something truly wonderful
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2.2 CUT Case Study: Articulated Clouds
Articulated Cloud is a facade covering for the Pittsburg Children’s
resulted. The wall is composed of thousands of white plastic square which move with the wind. Just as a cloud traces the paths of airflow as they cut through the sky, these flaps move in chorus and flow to create the impression that the entire building is enveloped in an abstract cloud. Ned Kahn replicates the forms and forces of nature. Studying systems that happen naturally, and what effect even the smallest influence that man can have on that system, Kahn’s work is both performance art of choreographed natural phenomena, and controlled simulation for understanding elemental forces.
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