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Hyperbody Research Group, TU Delft: Muscle Tower I & II

Muscle Tower I & II reacts to its environment and determines the space around itself. It consists aluminium staves, connected fl exibly to each other and the FESTO Muscles by iron hollow spheres. The FESTO Muscles are con-trolled by a running program in VirTools, which is aware of its environment through movement sensors.

Precedents:Adaptive Structures:

Jointing System: Development models

Tesselation

morphing tessellation fi elds

Development models

Structural system: Diagrid

components model 1

Structural models

model 2

model 3

model 4

Donaucity Tower

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residential

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hotel

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retail

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