crosslab_yuki: Second skin

Second skin (Exhibition)

Designers today continually manipulate the relationship between the inside and outside of objects, garments, and buildings, creating skins that both reveal and conceal, skins that have depth, complexity, and their own behaviors and identities.

http://www.designwritingresearch.org/second_skin/second_home.html

Robert and Granger Moorhead
This hanging fixture consists of a flexible silicone shell that flips up or down to provide either task or ambient lighting. The glowing rubber flesh resembles a pod or cocoon harboring alien life.

Shin Azumi, Mathmos
This light uses Airswitch technology; it turns on an off as the user compresses the air above it with her hand.

Sulan Kolatan and
William Mac Donald,
Kol/Mac Studio

Resi-Rise is a project for a building with an undulating skin that serves as both the surface and structure of the building. The material becomes an exterior shell, like the fuselage of a plane.

Nike

The Nike ACG Commverst for emergency workers has a built-in communications system that functions under extreme weather conditions. A push-to-talk button allows the radio to be activated with gloved hands. Speaker and microphone are removable for washing.