ABSTRACT
This paper presents architectural design methods and models to organise a multilayered oak composite into a dynamic responsive building envelope. Physical and computational prototypes are developed and presented. These show how the bending behaviour of singular and nested active elements can be organised to modulate light conditions and create an architecturally created interplay between the natural environment, the materialisation of architecture and the spatial programme inside the envelope. The work is based on the idea to use the local available energy, exergy, to construct dynamic architectural models. Lastly, a final full-scale prototype is shown in an applied context, illustrating the visual and thermal properties as an architectural construct. From this prototype a discussion is provided, which aims to propose potential future studies based on this work.
