The Liquid Skin seminar, worked in collaboration with Cricursa, a glass factory that specializes in curved glass.  The goal was to create a performative skin by encapsulating liquid.  This project explored density differences between glycerol and water. 

 

Knowing that water will always sit on top of mineral oil, a shading system was designed to take advantage of this density difference.  

 

Liquids absorbs sunlight, resulting in a reduction of energy consumption in hot climates.   This can also potentially store energy.

 

The liquids serves as a shading technique.  The more dense the molecules are, the more diffused the light will be when it passes through a liquid. Mineral oil has a density of 1.26 g/cm and water has a density of 1.0g/cc at room temperature.