Taking advantage of microcontrollers in preparing smart prototypes to design a movable glass architectural facade.

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1 Glass Department, Faculty of Applied Arts, Damietta University, Damietta , egypt .

2 Industrial Design Department, Faculty of Applied Arts, Damietta University

Abstract

The research tends to study the possibility of developing prototypes of glass facades from three-dimensional stereoscopic models free of movement or interaction with the environment to smart models simulating modern glass architectural destinations by taking advantage of microcontrollers, programmable electronic chips, small motors, interactive electronics and others to prepare a smart prototype that can be moved and interacted for glass architectural façade designs commensurate with the modern era and its requirements, through the study of microcontrollers, determining their capabilities and studying some Mobile architectural designs, which have been implemented in some modern buildings and the development of some designs for moving glass architectural facades, mobile prototypes can be prepared for them with the help of microcontrollers, which is what the research aims at, and the problem of research lies in the scarcity of the presence of kinetic glass architectural facades, where the designs depend on the stability of the glass facades except from some windows and leave the movement to other materials that advance them, and the importance of the research is due to reaching a design for moving glass facades whose movement can be controlled electronically through advanced technology This is achieved by following the analytical and descriptive approach.

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