Palscience

The concept of this extreme- architecture building is similar to Dubai’s world first moving tour, but Flare “the name of the building” has unique visual effects features which interact with the surround environment. According to Flare’s site “FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment.

The FLARE system consists of a number of tiltable metal flake bodies supplemented by individually controllable pneumatic cylinders. Sensor system inside and outside of the building connect to a computer in order to form any kind of surface animation.

The visual effect

• Each metal flake reflects the bright sky or sunlight when in vertical standby position.
• When the flake is tilted downwards by a computer controlled pneumatic piston, its face is shaded from the sky light and this way appears as a dark pixel.
• By reflecting ambient or direct sunlight, the individual flakes of the FLARE system act like pixels formed by natural light. Via Flare