After a few days, perhaps you will witness a towering, green structure swinging to-and-fro, just like a giant stalk of grass moving by the wind. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology students have designed such a mini-skyscraper! Yes, skyscraper.
Inspired by nature, if architects and engineers start to work to make buildings smarter and more organic, it won’t be difficult for people living among the concretes of a city to come close to nature.
The four-story fiberglass sculpture is called ‘WhoWhatWhenAIR’. Four MIT graduate students have built this amazingly innovative structure. They attached inflatable tubes — called pneumatic actuators — to various points on the structure’s frame. By doing this, the team made the 40 feet structure to slant or lean up to 8 feet in any direction!
To turn their design into reality, the WhoWhatWhenAIR team was awarded $7,000. The sculpture’s main structure was built using this money. German company Festo, a maker of automation technology donated the actuators.
Via: Live Science
New skyscraper: It sways like grass in the wind!
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