Building skin proposal represents the process of natural ventilation which is actuated by a user of a particular space behind the system. By inflating air cushions, a user activates the origami-shape structure and adjusts airflow with thermal conditions of the space, and their visual experience. The dynamic performance of the façade will portray life behind the skin and allow the building to breathe by its individual cells occupied by various inhabitants such as machines, people or vegetation. Pairing the adjustment and actuation of the skin system with the interior climate qualities renders the potential more individualised user engagement. The ability for ventilation adjustment allows us to provide a more direct relationship between the function and aesthetics of a building skin as it pertains to thermal, solar, and ventilation needs.

The exploration of the environmentally actuated envelope started with several physical models that used air as a major actuator. The following prototype explores air as an agent for geometry change, along with a combination of different levels of transparency. When the balloon is pushed from one side it changes the shape on another. Therefore, providing new features of the skin by increasing or decreasing the amount of shading and transforming the envelope from less transparent to more transparent one, when the balloons are inflated equally from both sides.

The idea of skin which synthesizes couture precedents is actuated by the air pressure which is triggered by the change of the inner environment. The air cushions being inflated open an additional layer of ventilation and expand the skin of the building behind.

Origami is a useful technic for transforming a flat sheet into some other shape with relatively little processing. The idea of air cushions penetrating the layer of the skin explores the possibility of actuating the origami structure by its inflation. Natural ventilation is actuated by temperature change inside the building. Therefore, cell inflation provides individualization of a user experience behind the skin. By inflating air cushions, a user activates the origami-shape structure and adjusts airflow with the thermal conditions of the space, and their visual experience.

A variety of apertures and sequences of openings will form a responsive facade for thermo-activated interior conditions. The dynamic performance of the façade will portray life behind the skin and allow the building to breathe through its cells occupied by various inhabitants such as machines, people, or vegetation.