This document summarizes several student projects focused on interactive and kinetic architectural designs. It describes projects that include louvers that twist and rotate in response to environmental conditions, a deployable kinetic system of folding panels that expands and retracts based on occupant proximity, and an interactive ceiling with rotating colored panels that control shade and light patterns. The document also discusses generative design projects inspired by cultural references like Islamic geometry patterns and the Lotus Temple in Delhi.

1. Sinhgad College of Architecture Guide: Dr. Pankaja Bagul M.Arch Computer Applications DISSERTATION Anisha Jadhav
•The kinetics are so designed that they optimize
their configuration in real time by responding to
environmental changes.
•The system is conceived as a series of blinds
whose kinetics are designed that have the
properties of twisting, sliding, rotating by being
interactive with the ambient conditions.
I N T E R A C T I V E D E S I G N S
Twisting
Rotation and Twisting angle
ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENT
MECHANICAL CONCEPT
Louvre
Rotation
COMPOSITION
CONTROL MOVEMENT
MECHANISM
Motion/music, Ambient conditions
(Luminosity, weather, etc)
INPUT
INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT
Motion/temperature/s
ound Sensor
Ambient conditions
Control of twisting/rotation angle
of louvers according to input like
luminosity, temperature, motion,
sound
Twisting/rotation/sliding/
translation
Sunlight
Response of Louvers
INTERACTIVE LOUVERS
STAGE 1 STAGE 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4 STAGE 5
•The system is created in parametric
components.
•It responds to a collection of control
points.
•The system acts as a shutter composed
of multiple strips.
•Each louver could twist independently
of the others.
•The twisting of the louver is caused by
control points.
•Each louver reacts individually, while
creating an effect of movement in the
whole facade.
Input:
Program has to be made with following
conditions-
Amplitude of the blinds
Incident light (detected by light sensors)
No. of rotations/ twists (caused by
servomotor)
Time
•Designing a new generation of
buildings that optimize their
configuration in real time by
responding to environmental
changes.
•Here the configuration changes as
person passes by… it follows the
person
MECHANISM INVOLVED:
Servo motors, gears,
microcontroller, louvers

2. DEPLOYABLE KINETIC SYSTEMS
•The deployable kinetic systems are usually easily
constructed and deconstructed systems that exist in a
temporary location.
•These structures can have one or multiple functions
and their movement can be controlled in different
ways
These systems have the potential for mechanical
movement but they do not have any direct control
device or mechanism, they have a constructional
internal control that allows it to move by rotating or
sliding.
Sinhgad College of Architecture Guide: Dr. Pankaja Bagul M.Arch Computer Applications DISSERTATION Anisha Jadhav
I N T E R A C T I V E D E S I G N S
KINETIC SYSTEMS
MECHANIC SYSTEMS
ORIGAMI’S GEOMETRY
CREASE PATTERNS
KINETIC POTENTIAL
INFORMATIC
SYSTEMS
DATA READERS
SENSORS
ACTUATORS
MATERIALS
The kinetic adaptive enclosure was intended to create an
interactive structure that could create spaces. It is not
yet a building, but it may be the first step to
define a building that can be interactive as a whole.
Aimed to create a system that could assume different
forms in order to configure different spaces,
with a range of different areas and volumes and several
different geometric configurations so it would be
able to respond to several different needs of a user.
ADAPTIVE ENCLOSURE
Expansion
ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENT
MECHANICAL CONCEPT
Foldable
material,
ballows, panels
Retraction
COMPOSITION
CONTROL MOVEMENT
MECHANISM
Proximity of people/occupantsINPUT
EXPANDRETRACT
2 main arch like
supports acting as a
guide on which the
canopy would retract/
expand
STUDY MODEL
INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT
Motion, proximity of
occupants
Expansion and retraction of the
deployable kinetic system
Folding and unfolding of
enclosure
Sunlight
Adaptive Space
STAGES OF EXPANSION AND RETRACTION
UNDERSTANDING THE BASIC GEOMETRY AND KINETICS
THE MECHANICAL SYSTEM
BASIC ORIGAMI FOLDS
Overview of the direction of
movement. The kinetic movement can
be triggered either form horizontal or
vertical points which allowed
different type of scale in constructing
this kinetic system
The advantage of this system is that it allows for constant movement in
creating opening and closing of the system and the kinetic component can be
add-on or subtract based on the site condition and needs.

3. APERTURE FAÇADE:
Aperture is a façade installation
with interactive and displaying
modes.
The aperture opens and closes
imitating the movement of a person
standing in front of them
Sinhgad College of Architecture Guide: Dr. Pankaja Bagul M.Arch Computer Applications DISSERTATION Anisha Jadhav
I N T E R A C T I V E D E S I G N S
The system is designed as a ceiling made from multi-coloured, translucent, modular panels. The panels act
as gears, rotating in unison to control the amount of shade offered and the pattern of blended colours. Their
movement is related to the ambient light intensity, movement of people creating more shade (and colours)
when it is sunny and because of movement.
INTERACTIVE CEILING
ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENT
MECHANICAL CONCEPT
Circular
panels
Rotation
COMPOSITION
CONTROL MOVEMENT
MECHANISM
Motion/music, luminosityINPUT
INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT
Motion/light/sound Sensor
Control of rotational
movement of panels
Rotation of circular
panels
Sunlight
Play of colorful light
A rotating ceiling was designed in
response to the movement of the passerby.
Triangular metal grid on which the circular
components would rotate also giving a
background pattern
Initial concept was to
develop a ceiling
responding to music and
motion with the play of
ceiling lights passing
through overlapping
colorful translucent
components
EXPERIENTIAL DESIGNS
INTERACTIVE LIGHT AND
MUSIC COMPOSITION.
In this configuration, it’s been
combined with an interactive
light sculpture that reacts
dynamically to the dB level of
the musical output thus
triggering light illumination

4. Anisha Jadhav M.Arch C.A.
Digital Design Studies (Studio-II)
Sinhgad College of Architecture
Studio Coordinator :Dr.Pankaja Bagul
Generative design:
Using cultural heritage as reference
FORM AND PATTERN DEVELOPMENT
TESSELLATION ITERATIONS:
SURFACE DEVELOPED USING A SIMPLE
CIRCULAR AND POLYGONAL GRID
TESSELLATED SURFACES

5. Anisha Jadhav M.Arch C.A.
Digital Design Studies (Studio-II)
Sinhgad College of Architecture
Studio Coordinator :Dr.Pankaja Bagul
Generative design:
Using cultural heritage as reference
FORM AND PATTERN DEVELOPMENT
ITERATIONS OF THE PENDENTIVE FORM
CASE STUDIES:
LOTUS TEMPLE,DELHI
One of the outstanding structures of the 20th
century is the Bahai Temple in Delhi,
popularly known as the Lotus Temple.
The temple manifests itself as a half open
lotus flower, afloat, surrounded by its leaves.
Designed by architect Fariburz Sahba
INTERIOR OF THE TEMPLE
The Baha’i faith is
said to embody in
itself the nine major
faiths of the world
and in order to
symbolise this, each
component of the
temple is repeated
nine times.
The conga room has been a los angeles
cultural landmark. The latin live music
and dance venue was la’s center for
salsa and rumba.
CONGA ROOM, LOS
ANGELES
In an effort to meet the client’s desires for
an aesthetic that reflected the vibrancy and
dynamism of Latin culture, the ceiling
surface, fashioned from a series of
Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC)-
milled, painted plywood panels, was created
from an assemblage of diamond patterns,
which were initially derived from the classic
Cuban Rumba dance step.

6. Anisha Jadhav M.Arch C.A.
Digital Design Studies (Studio-II)
Sinhgad College of Architecture
Studio Coordinator :Dr.Pankaja Bagul
Generative design:
Using cultural heritage as reference
FORM AND PATTERN DEVELOPMENT
The honeycomb, a structure
of joined hexagons creates no
negative or additional space.
Further additions onto the
honeycomb require no new
development of geometry
The derived form of the module can be further generated for future
expansion horizontally or vertically.
Horizontally, the building will further generate following a radial grid.
RHOMBUS TESSELLATIONS TRIANGULAR TESSELLATIONS
HEXAGONAL TESSELLATIONS
SURFACE DEVELOPMENT AND FORM FINDING
SURFACE DEVELOPMENT AND FORM FINDING
•Polygonal geometries are frequently seen through Islamic
Architecture geometries.
•Tessellation iterations were done on rhombus, triangle and
hexagon.
•Rule: Niches in the ratio 1:2 were made on each face centrally,
alternately inside and outside.
SERIES OF VAULTS
MUQARNAS

7. Anisha Jadhav M.Arch C.A.
Digital Design Studies (Studio-II)
Sinhgad College of Architecture
Studio Coordinator :Dr.Pankaja Bagul
GENERATIVE DESIGN:
USING CULTURAL HERITAGE AS REFERENCE
POLYCARBONATE SHEETS
FIXED ON FRAMING
MEMBERS
COMPONENTS FIXED ON
FRAMING MEMBERS
HOLLOW STEEL COLUMN
FRAMING MEMBERS
PLAN
VIEW
FRONT VIEW
1 MODULE
(6 UNITS)