The design of the pavilion "CORPFORM" was realised for the "Open House - Intelligent Living by Designî at ENTRY 2006 in Essen/Germany. CORPFORM shows analogies to living organism: Its adaptive behaviour is the main focus of the experimental object in order to show an integrative system with adaptive building envelope and a structural system with variable chemical and physical properties with the goal to adapt to various external changing environmental conditions, such as light transmission, temperature or acoustic properties. Further on the pneumatic system is able to modify the overall geometry. Textiles, foils, ceramics, glass or plastics are embedded within the structure as cellular or multi-layer systems.

• Architects: formorf, Cologne
• Structural Design and cutting patterns: Teuffel Engineering Consultants/ Ingenieurbüro Dollansky
• Photographer: Frank Vinken

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