Ars Electronica Festival · 2012
Designing Zero-Energy Building Components with Smart Thermobimetal
by Doris Sung
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2012
Doris Sung's “Designing Zero-Energy Building Components with Smart Thermobimetal” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2012, category The Next Idea.
Challenging the traditional presumption that building skins are static and inanimate, this applied research project examines the replacement of this convention with one that posits the prosthetic layer between man and his environment as a responsive and active skin.
About Doris Sung
**Doris Sung** (US). After receiving her BA at Princeton University and M.Arch. at Columbia University, Doris Sung worked in various offices in cities across the U.S. before arriving in Los Angeles in 2001.
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