Prototype II, Techtextil, Frankfurt, Germany, 2017 / UNStudio

New material boosts outer space lives.

2017-05-15

项目标签

设计公司: :; UNStudio
位置: :; Germany
类型: :; Architecture Design
材料: :; Membrane Structure Synthetic material
标签: :; Frankfurt
分类: :; Exhibition installation

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UNStudio 和 MDT-tex 事务所一起为 Techtextil “生活空间”展览会创造了一个名为 Prototype II 的项目，这是一个模块化的住所，畅想未来人类在月球或者火星上生活。设计的灵感来源于折叠式的结构：这个结构需要足够轻便紧凑以便能被送入太空。在 Techtextil 的安装过程中，这个自给自足的太空住所为参观者提供了一个虚拟现实中的火星旅程。项目是由欧洲航天局（ESA）和德国航空航天中心（DLR）的共同参展作品。

For the Techtextil ‘Living in Space’ exhibition UNStudio and MDT-tex have created Prototype II, a modular shelter which envisions how we might one day live on the moon or on Mars. The design is inspired by foldable structures and the need for lightweight and compact transport into space. In the Techtextil installation the self-supporting pavilion serves as a space in which guests can experience a trip to Mars in virtual reality – as represented by co-exhibitors the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).

▼太空居所，pavilion in the space

建筑表皮的材质是 PTFE 膜，一种最高性能的纺织品，为太空居所提供耐用、半透明、轻便的结构。比起其他建筑材料，如复合材料和轻质金属材质的外表皮，PTFE 能提供更使用灵活的性能。同其他纺织品一样，PTFE 也是可以定向编织的。可变化的颜色和纺织方式，可以满足任何类型包层材料的需要。当时在建筑环境中使用这种材料时，纺织品必须能够和其他硬质材料进行稳固的衔接。同 Prototype II 的前身 Eye_Beacon 一样，项目中的金属结构使用了轻便的铝制框架。

The primary material component of the shelter is PTFE membrane. A textile of the highest performance, PTFE provides a durable, yet translucent and lightweight infill. As a textile PTFE provides more uses and formal flexibility than other architectural materials, such as composites or lightweight metals. However, like any other textile, PTFE can be custom woven— with open weaves and colour integration—to match the needs of any cladding or pavilion project. When used in an architectural context, textiles must be combined with other materials to allow for a fixed shape and strong connections. As with its predecessor prototype, Eye_Beacon, Prototype II uses an aluminum and steel frame in each panel to accomplish this.

▼轻便的折叠结构，a folded aluminum steel frame

Eye_Beacon 和 Prototype II 都是基于多功能膜结构系统的原型，统称为“Cirrus”，目前由 UNStudio 和 MDT-tex 联合开发。这些原型中使用的框架覆膜策略将被进一步的开发和优化，以满足作为外墙、建筑表皮以及居所的功能。

Both Eye_Beacon and Prototype II are prototypes for a multi-functional membrane structure system, called ‘Cirrus’, which is currently being co-developed by UNStudio and MDT-tex. The framed membrane strategy used in each of these prototypes will be further developed and optimised to serve as a façade, a second skin or a shelter structure.

▼结构，structural diagram

PTFE | 聚四氟乙烯 | Polytetrafluoroethylene

由 MDT-tex 专门开发的 PTFE 织物与通常意义上使用硬质纽结敏感材料制成的用 PTFE 覆膜或夹层玻璃、芳纶、聚酯纤维织物的材质完全不同。它不是只有表面覆盖 PTFE，而是由多根扭曲连续的 PTFE 纤维组成。

The PTFE fabric specially developed by MDT-tex differs to the usual stiff, hard and kink-sensitive membrane materials made of PTFE coated or laminated glass, aramid or polyester fibre fabrics, in that it consists of PTFE multifilaments, which are formed from a plurality of twisted continuous fibres.

▼为太空生活优化的结构，the structure refined for outer space life

PTFE 相比传统的涂有 PVC 涂料的涤纶材料有更大的优势。高达 40% 的高透光率与它优异的自清洁性能相结合，材料性能完全满足了太空生活所需的一切要求。MDT-tex 设计的 PTFE 织物具有非常高的抗粘附性，也就是“自清洁性能”，这意味着没有污染服会粘附在现为上。此外，织物的延展性很低，温度耐受性能好（从-200到+ 327℃），同时也具有非常低的表面张力（极性）。

PTFE fabric has great advantages over PVC-coated polyester fabrics. The high light transmittance of up to 40% in combination with its excellent self-cleaning properties correlates perfectly with material-specific requirements. The MDT-tex PTFE fabric has pronounced anti-adhesive properties (‘self-cleaning effect’), which means that no contaminants adhere to the fibres. Furthermore, the fabric is characterised by its low extensibility, high temperature resistance (from -200 to + 327° C) and very low surface tension (polarity).

▼结构的细部，detail of the structure

PTFE（也称为特氟隆），对化学品、天气、紫外线辐射和温度影响有极好的耐受性。此外，它属于不易燃和自熄的B1分类，并具有非常低的导电和导热性。这些突出的性能引起了航空航天工程师的关注。此后，特氟隆和相关材料同其他材料一起，如电缆绝缘和热保护瓷砖，或作为太空服的保护层伴随着美国太空旅行的发展。在阿波罗任务中，月球垃圾袋涂有特氟隆，PTFE 还用于保护当今太空旅行中的各种材料。

PTFE (also known under the trade name Teflon) is extremely resistant to chemicals, weather, UV radiation and temperature influences. Furthermore it is non-flammable and self-extinguishing (B1-classification) and has very low electrical and thermal conductivity. These outstanding properties first attracted the attention of aerospace engineers. Since then, Teflon and related materials have accompanied the history of American space travel – as cable insulation and heat protection tiles, or as a protective layer on space suits. In the Apollo missions, the litter bags for moon rock were coated with Teflon and PTFE is still used to protect various materials in space travel today.

▼PTFE 特氟隆材料，Teflon