Furl: Soft Pneumatic Pavilion from Interactive Architecture Lab on Vimeo.

Architecture will always be a beautiful art form but buildings can be stubborn in their shaping of an environment.

Interactive Architecture Lab have designed a pavilion using soft robotics which allow for telekinesis to make for an ever adaptable shape shifting structure. Furl is a model of a kinetic interactive pavilion created by combining electroencephalography (EEG) with silicon casting to replace mechanical structures that existed in the principles of interactive architecture. Furl allows the individual to dictate the structure on a telekinetic level before hard architectural elements make the structure a physical reality. Not only does the EEG sense the desires of users needs but it can also pick up and adapt to the environment.

The brainchild of Bijing Zhang and Francois Mangion of the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, the project is part of a rise in works which allow the brainwaves of the community at large to dictate the outcome of works.

Biomeditation is another artwork that uses an EEG headset to track performers’ brainwaves as they meditate, capturing and translating cognitive and emotional experiences into audio and visual compositions.