kinetic architecture

Kinetic + exclusive interview with Kinetura

blog article 03/2011

Author: Oliver Van Poucke

“The Kinetower is Kinetura’s concept for a building whose façade elements respond to the sunlight or for the user inside. Kinetura is the design team of Barbara Van Biervliet and Xaveer Claerhout, established in 2006. Meanwhile, they both run the architecture office Claerhout–Van Biervliet since 1995.

Kinetower is an interesting design to promote their concept:

“The Kinetura concept is adding a new dynamic dimension to common static design and architecture.
By making use of the flexible characteristics of specific materials combined with motion-based technologies, objects transform in a silent and nearly imperceptible way into a contrasting shape with a completely different functionality and expression.
As if an extra dimension were involved…””