Kinetic architecture

City of Hope National Medical Center's Northeast Parking Structure (Parking Structure A) is a six-story concrete parking structure offering 1,087 parking stalls for patients and staff, with future capability for retail space on the ground level. This project is an early phase of a 20-year expansion that will add approximately 1 million square feet to City of Hope's campus in Duarte, CA. RMA Photography, Inc. As part of the plan, a new parking structure acts as a distinct entry monument. CO Architects was part of the design-build team with TRC Parkitects and McCarthy Building Companies. The defining feature is a kinetic façade that embraces City of Hope's dedication to holistic cancer care and contributes to sustainability initi... More

Dynamic brick wall by ARCHITIME  The art-object is at intersection of kinetic and parametric architecture and dedicated to the highest feeling on the Earth - LOVE.    Authors: Grigory Malitskiy, Maria Malitskaya, ARCHITIME design group.Artist: Alexey Kio. Location: Russia, Moscow, Orbion transport hub, Skolkovo Date: 2020 About: The dynamic wall dance reveals, like a theatrical curtain, what is hidden in the emotions palette of love. Love kindles hearts and stirs the blood. Flaming hearts are looking for self-expression, finding it in creativity, and, in particular, street art, which has gone a way from vandalism to art, from destruction to creation. Architecture is silent and ready to accept a sensual creative impulse... More

Mask Architects developed a proposal for a public artwork to be located in Nuevo Polanco, Mexico City " Hole Zero + Timeless Kinetic Art Sculpture" has been selected one of 5 finalists among  340 international projects and Artist for MassivArt and MIRA  investment and real estate development company in Mexico.  Designed by Öznur Pınar ÇER, Danilo PETTA " Hole Zero + Timeless Kinetic Art Sculpture" is the first spiral interactive movement and rotated lattice loop structure in the world which has filled easily controlled rotatable kinetic art panels by human movements where human are interactive and environmental data according to the location of the structure on the site. Inspired by spacetime curving/bending whic... More

The Klotski is a three-story, mixed-use infill building situated in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Close to downtown, the area is noted for its dynamic mix of commercial, manufacturing, and residential uses. Reflecting the eclectic vibrancy and gritty nature of the neighborhood, the 10,041-square-foot CMU and steel-framed building houses a beer hall, an office, a maker space, a studio, and a small caretaker’s apartment. Kevin Scott Riffing on the idea of shifting uses and planes, the design takes its visual cue from a sliding tile puzzle, also known as a klotski, where the object is to rearrange tiles to solve the puzzle. The puzzle is expressed on the south-facing exterior of the building through the use of 7’x10&rs... More

Kaynemaile isn’t just a manufacturer; we work collaboratively with architects, designers and artists around the world. At the Playa Vista development in Los Angeles we collaborated with American artist Ned Kahn and the project architects Johnson Fain on a unique kinetic installation.Situated at the heart of the Playa Vista development this 98 feet tall kinetic installation winds itself around the parking garage façade—helping to connect the streetscape to the surrounding buildings. The kinetic installation is named Enagua after the Latin-American garment which gives volume and fullness underneath a dress. The installation takes advantage of a wind channel from the nearby Pacific Ocean that keeps the Kaynemaile Armour mesh rippling like bill... More