Onye Ahanotu

Auxetic Surfaces

"The experimental system featured 12 different elastic surfaces that are perforated such as to produce a controlled expansion and contraction when actuated through an external mechanism. The sheets are perforated based on scientific principles. Perforations scale and transform according to the irregular boundaries of each sheet. The elements are suspended and move slowly to produce a constantly changing texture overhead. The project is part of the long-term collaboration with Prof. Joanna Aizenberg’s Adaptive Materials Platform at the Wyss Institute."

ALivE

w/ Harvard GSD

Adaptive Living Environments (ALivE) is a collaboration at Harvard University between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Map+S Group (New Frontiers in Material Processes and Systems @ Harvard Graduate School of Design). This collaboration seeks to bring Engineers, Scientists, Designers and Architects together to apply novel systems and materials technologies to the architectural context. Of special interest are adaptive materials and systems; dynamic materials able to automatically & predictively respond to the environment or a stimulus.

Over the years, I worked to ideate, develop and solve scale-up challenges faced when translating novel technologies to designed objects.