Self-folding structure could slash energy use in buildings
Monday, May 18, 2015 - 06:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Princeton student Denisa Buzatu's vision for an environmentally sustainable building is a sort of shape-shifting origami façade. For her senior thesis, Buzatu, a civil and environmental engineering major, is designing and prototyping a structure that shades the façade of a building by folding and adapting its shape in response to sunlight.