Keywon Chung Inspired Amateur

Intelux

2009

– Transparency-adjustable structure for energy saving

We crave sunlight sometimes, and avoid it other times. And we spend extraneous energy and materials to avoid it. How might we simplify the way we control the amount of incoming incident light?

Intelux is a construction material designed to control the amount of light. Through actuation, a microstructure material can exhibit both diffusion and transparency. We used polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), glass, and polycarbonate materials and air pressure and microfluidic actuation, lasercut etching to create prototypes, and evaluated its cooling and light-diffusing effects.

Finalist at MIT MADMEC 2009

With Jaebum Joo, Kimin Jun, and Hyewon Kim