McGill University

Fall 2013

In collaboration with: Lisa Chow

Professor Aaron Sprecher

 

In response to the digital technology advancements in the field of architecture and design, an analogical and digital system was developed to represent the skin of a jellyfish. The goal of the project was to represent, digitally, the behaviour of the jellyfish in its natural environment.

 

The jellyfish mass is comprised of two layers of skin. This project focuses on the external skin, in which the creature uses to diffuse oxygen and for the absorption of nutrients. The flexible nature of the jellyfish also allows it to move freely in water.

 

Through this, the parameters of the digital system include curvature, perforation radius, and thickness. Flexibility is represented by curvature and deformation, the diffusion of oxygen and absorption of nutrients is simulated through the perforations and their respective radii. All of these parameters represent the changing skin of the jellyfish.