brandon cuffy, judy fulton & stacy morton: coFLEXions

‘CoFLEXions: a responsive inflatable’ by brandon cuffy, judy fulton & stacy morton

designers brandon cuffy, judy fulton & stacy morton from the harvard graduate school of design have conceived ‘CoFLEXions: a responsive inflatable’,  as an attempt to create a system which investigates the relationship between individual and collective. by embedding actuators into the fabric of our architecture, it begins to have the ability to regulate form as a direct output from its users. this enables architects to reconsider the way in which space can adapt in real time using intelligent technologies to enhance user desires. 

the exterior mirrored surface invites the collective to touch and distort the image they perceive of themselves. a smart skin embedded with flex sensors and programmed using arduino was designed. it is this membrane through which inputs are received, processed, and generate spatial interiority for the individual and at the same time impact the greater environment of the collective. when an outside user interacts with the surface, the inflatable begins to deflate, affecting the interior space of the individual within.