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Howeler+Yoon architecture firm's "spatial valve"

By Rain Noe - May 22, 2009

in Object Culture

This Construction.com video spotlighting architecture firm Howeler+Yoon is pretty standard stuff, but we were fascinated by the project they discuss in the first minute: A "spatial valve" that would allow people to pass through a space (or impede them from doing so) by changing its shape through a combination of rotation and compression. Also interesting: they had to model this one the old-fashioned way, as it was un-Rhino-able.

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