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Intelligent Surfaces — our suite of adaptive shading and cladding solutions — help connect an occupant to their environment in new ways. When a building physically transforms, it in turn transforms the viewer’s surroundings — through spatial impact or shifting play of light from kinetic surfaces.
Our systems create this visual impact while providing performance benefits suitable for any building geometry, climate, or context; and can be customized by pattern, size, and configuration for specific building designs and requirements.
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Tessellate™
Continually evolving surface, pattern and opacity
Tessellate™ surface modules are self-contained, framed screens with perforated patterns that can continually shift and evolve; they create a dynamic architectural element that regulates light and solar gain, ventilation and airflow, privacy, and views.
Developed by ABI, Tessellate™ surfaces are delivered in partnership with A. Zahner Co.
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Adaptive Fritting™
Living glass for next-generation building façades
Adaptive Fritting™ is an integrated glass unit with a custom, moveable, graphic pattern that can modulate its transparency to control transmitted light, solar gain, views, and privacy. Graphic appliqués are available in a variety of geometric patterns and colors; and can be customized to match architectural details or imagery.
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Strata™
Building surfaces from nearly nothing
Strata™ consists of modular units that hide within a single slender profile when retracted and that can extend to form a nearly continuous surface. Advantages include the ability to be designed into non-rectangular shapes, match three-dimensionally curved surfaces when extended, and visually disappear into a building’s underlying structure when retracted.
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Permea™
Dynamically permeable surfacing
Permea™ surfaces provide panels of controlled permeability that vary smoothly between a covered state and a largely open state. In addition to regulating daylighting, solar gain and airflow, Permea™ can be used to seal off an interior environment from dust, debris and harsh weather; and for special situations can be engineered to function as a protective blast shield.
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