The Kinetic Facade Building!
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- The Paris Institut du Monde Arabe!
This building was groundbreaking in its day…taking historic architectural approaches and combining them with modern technology to create a unique piece of architecture!
The Institut du Monde Arabe (Institute of the Arab World) building in Paris was designed by Jean Nouvel, opened in 1987, and has a stunning façade of camera-like apertures that react to the sun to control the amount of light and heat entering the building. A combination of the traditional mashrabiya and modern day mechanisms and sensors to create a combined nature+machine!
I’m so thrilled I could visit a structure that inspired me when I was becoming interested in structural and architectural design…to realize you could make a building responsive to its environment…to have a structure that could move and be responsive…enjoy!
About Me:
Hi, I'm Paul Kassabian. I'm a structural engineer and a Principal at SGH in Boston, MA. Being a structural engineer is my fulltime job and I’ve also taught full courses to graduate students at MIT for nine years, Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) for five years and at RISD (Fall 2023). These are videos based on my structural design projects and years of teaching structures to students.
Some legal/professional stuff:
As of this video, I’m a:
• Licensed Structural/Civil Engineer in 27 US States including my home state of Massachusetts.
• Professional Engineer in British Columbia
• Chartered Structural Engineer in the UK (both ICE and IStructE)
So my full designations are: Paul E. Kassabian, P.E., P.Eng (BC), C.Eng MICE MIStructE
MUSIC:
I purchased a license for use from Pond5.com
The item ID number is 32695415.
AdKey:p2A94LX-QZ4MW3
Publisher: Kero Herning - IPI/CAE: 825536431
Composer: Kero Herning - IPI/CAE: 825536431
Title: Happy Positive Playful
License : Individual License for Commercial Use.
It would be fascinating to watch a timelapse of these mechanisms at work.
Here you go! th-cam.com/video/zQ9FAwAmt98/w-d-xo.htmlsi=V17svr_vDNJFnFap
@@PaulKassabian Excellent. Thank you very much.
Cool cool cool cool
I love it
Magical
I hope i can visit it one day
Thank you for your videos
Thanks - glad you enjoyed the video!
What an incredible building!
Yeah right? and I saw you have a youtube channel too...so subscribed!
@@PaulKassabian Thank you so much Paul! Great to connect with you!
When I visited the building in the late 1990s, it was dirty and unkept. I read long ago that the apertures in the facade no longer functioned. Did you see them move? It's a lovely, intriguing building. I do hope the owners now treat it with care.
Thanks and yes! The repairs I discussed and book I show are from the upgrades to the facade. They move now...see here th-cam.com/video/zQ9FAwAmt98/w-d-xo.html
All I can say is ,"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Todo." Mind blowing Architecture.
magical and mesmerising. thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it!
This wonderful to see😮.... thank you soo much for sharing this❤
I wish you stayed till evening, so we'll see how the shutters close
here you go! th-cam.com/video/zQ9FAwAmt98/w-d-xo.html
I remember using drapes to block out the solar gain when I was younger.
Do mechanisms work ?
Yup! see here th-cam.com/video/zQ9FAwAmt98/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing Wow, that's very ahead, maybe to upgrade and put some oil supply system in... When you mention Islamic, there are "Cambridge Central Mosque" which incorporates English vaulting and Islamic sacred geometry that is masterpiece.
Yes! I must go next time and see in person!
Paul while you are in Paris go to Notre-Dame Cathedral :)
❤
great video but please change or remove that bg music
No kinetics shown in the video unfortunately. Overengineering mess though.
good point! see here th-cam.com/video/zQ9FAwAmt98/w-d-xo.html
Focus on the product not just your big face in the frame
Thanks! You should probably not watch the various upcoming videos I'll be posting...unfortunately my big face will be in all of them. :)
In a way kind of interesting but objectively not a great idea. Wasted space in side the building, built in inherent maintenance burden, huge cost, not sustainable, blocks views. I know, someone has to (or do they) test the boundaries of what is possible and push the new frontiers, just wish they would do it with their own money.
1. It fits inside the window mullion thickness 2. Blocking sunlight to protect artifacts in the museum is necessary, views are not. So you're half-wrong but using the word "objectively" as if you know what you're talking about.
@@gwety4496 Thanks for setting the record straight. I am so sorry I used the word objectively. So in my opinion a kind of interesting but not a great idea. Huge cost, not sustainable, I know, someone has to (or do they) test the boundaries of what is possible and push the new frontiers, just wish they would do it with their own money.