Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Can building walls regulate their temperature like human skin. Doris kim sung works with thermobimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin, dynamically and responsively, and can shade a room from sun and selfventilate. Your breathable thermal bi metals where do you want to take these next. Doris kim sung works with thermobimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin. Morton bast i was one of those kids that, every time i got in the car, i basically had to roll down the window. As the temperature rises, this deformation will allow the building skin to breathe much like the pores in human skin. Susan cain 89 is the author of the bestseller quiet. Doris kim sung is a biology student turned architect interested in thermobimetals, smart materials that respond dynamically to temperature change. Bimetals are created by laminating two thin sheets of metals that expand at different temperatures, causing the metal to curl when heated. Biologistturnedarchitect doris kim sung makes buildings breathe. How modern buildings with floortoceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. It was usually too hot, too stuffy or just too smelly, and my father would not let us use the air conditioner.
She was a biology major before she studied architecture. Watch doris kim sung s ted talk, metal that breathes. Doris kim sung was a biology major who switched into architecture, and her combination of the two interests has now led her, as an assistant professor at usc, to experimenting with building systems inspired by everything from human skin to grasshoppers breathing systems. Doris kim sung is an architecture professor at usc with a background in biology. The traditional work environment is undergoing rapid change. Prototyping a selfventilating building skin with smart.
She has been investigating the functions of the human skin and comparing that to the functions of a building skin. Bloom installation made with 14000 thermobimetal pieces. Buildings that breathe doris sungs living architecture. Doris kim sung to demonstrate her breathing metals concept anderson, 2012.
Ted presents doris kim sung, talking about future smart building materials. Doris kim sung women in technology visionary women. She has been experimenting with thermobimetals, which are two layers of metal that expand and contract in response to temperature at different rates, to essentially create metal that breathes. Selfventilating buildings, sung believes, have major potential for sustainable architecture. Create your citations, reference lists and bibliographies automatically using the apa, mla, chicago, or harvard referencing styles. In her ted talk in may of 2012 doris was describing the current problem with building systems which is the amount of energy used to heatcool our. Doris kim sung shares her thermal biometals in this solveforx talk, showing the ways that a breathing shifting metal can help heat, cool and shade a space. After receiving degrees at princeton and columbia, doris sung practiced architecture in various cities across the u. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. This talk, courtesy of ted, looks at energy efficient design. On ted, doris kim sung spoke about metal that breathes. By doing so, doris kim sung envisions walls that can shade a. Different kinds of metal that have two different coefficient of expansion which when.
In her highly relatable ted talk, she discusses the emphasis society places on extroversion and. This new project has to do with the architecture of buildings, specifically, with the ventilation and the way that buildings cool themselves. Biology student turn architect, doris kim sung has dedicated her studies to the infinite possibilities of thermobimetals, smart materials that respond dynamically to temperature change. Architect doris kim sungs metal that breathes core77. A skin that needs no control, and no energy whichs a big deal in architecture. Breathing biometal regulates building temperature a. This is largely a problem of materials, says sung, a professor at the usc school of architecture. Brandon shigeta to build a smarter building, you could start with making better sensors. Modern buildings with floortoceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. By laminating two different metal alloys with different coefficients of. But its not long before a similar technique is used in.
By laminating two metal alloys with different coefficients of expansion together, the result is a thermobimetal that curls when heated and flattens when cooled. Doris kim sung shares her thermal biometals in this solveforx talk, showing the ways that a breathing shifting metal can help heat, cool and shade a s. Doris kim sung works with thermobimetals, smart materials that act more like. Metal that breathes is one of the latest evolutionary byproducts of the new trend, and is best evidenced by the work of architect doris kim sung of the university of southern california. The second part focuses on the tectonics of thermobimetals as part of an operable, responsive skin. He is teaching currently as the wortham fellow at the rice university school of architecture and working on a book about architectural drawing in the age of outsourcing. Using responsive thermobimetals that breathe to heat or cool a building, doris sung is making architecture more lifelike and environmentally friendly. Doris kim sung works with thermobimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin, dynamically and responsively, and can shade a. Without the need for manual controls or power, this product can. Breathing life into the layer between man and nature. Biology student turn architect, doris kim sung has dedicated her studies to the infinite possibilities of thermobimetals, smart materials that. Philips lighting smart buildings by point 6 design ltd.
Doris kim sung bekerja dengan bimetal panas, bahan cerdas. Made out of thousands of pieces of temperaturereactive metal, this experimental canopy explores how existing materials could be used differently to reduce our reliance on mechanical systems of shading and cooling. The power of introverts in a world that cant stop talking. Dedicated desks, like private offices with a nameplate, windows, and a door that closes, are going the way of large workstation.
In her work, doris interprets architecture as an extension of the body and explores how buildings can passively. Glittering metallic pavilion morphs itself as temperature. Below, browse our playlist of popular ted videos by miller and other princeton alumni. Air conditioning used to be a luxury but as doris kim sung points out in this talk from tedxusc, modernized society has become thoroughly airconditioning reliant. Skin is the first line of defense for the body, she says. This materials science lesson teaches that, in certain metals, atoms are able to rearrange themselves like a marching band into specific formations in different states. Films media group modern buildings with floortoceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. So doris kim sung came up with a the idea of integrating the usage of the thermobimetal smart material with buildings skin.
Thermobimetals have been used since the beginning of the industrial. A lamination of two metals together with different thermal expansion. Doris kim sung works with thermobimetals, smart materials that act more like human. This property has proved very useful in surgery and robotics, as well as in architecture. Strategies for ideal indoor environments toward lowzero carbon buildings through a biomimetic approach article pdf available in international journal of ambient energy. Metal that breathes doris kim sung talks about a new project she is currently working on. Imagine glass skyscrapers with spectacular views that use less energy to cool because of smart material shades that require no motors or human interaction. Doris kim sung works with thermobimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin, dynamically and. Or you could take a cue from biologistturnedarchitect doris kim sung and invent building materials that react to the environment on. This subject entailed us writing a manifesto according to a 21st century ideology. Architect doris kim sung 86, an assistant professor at the university of southern california, is intrigued by the possibility of buildings that can breathe. Doris kim sung challenging the traditional presumption that.
Gedunggedung modern dengan jendela yang menyelimuti ruangan memberi pemandangan yang mengagumkan, namun diperlukan energi yang besar untuk mendinginkannya. She developed her research focus while teaching at university. Pdf strategies for ideal indoor environments toward low. Doris kim sung, dosu studio architecture, university of southern california, while doris is very much an artist, her education began with the study of biology and her process is based on her understanding of the biological world, such as the ways termite mounds accommodate themselves to thermal changes. Bloom, a temporary installation by usc architecture professor doris kim sung, isnt technically a facade. An interview with doris kim sung may 14, 2014 much of dosu studio architectures work is with thermalbimetals, a laminated sheet metal material that. During my art residency in bellagio, italy, i had the privilege of interviewing usc architecture professor and princeton alumna doris kim sung.
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