The Transforming Pool Pavilion is a pool covering and canopy which covers the pool to keep it warm, while also covering the user with its canopy, providing protection from different weather conditions. This pool covering uses origami technology and also provides more space for the user, since pools take up a lot of space wherever they are located. 

This project will enhance the experience for any pool users who feel that their pool is cold or takes up too much space. In doing so, this design will help pool owners experience with their pool be much more comfortable, enjoyable, and relaxing. The canopy will also help the user feel more protected and enclosed, providing a feeling of safeness. This project uses origami technology to allow for an easily extendable and retractable covering and canopy. This origami tech is efficient when it comes to being very compact and saving space. The user will interact with this project unfolding the cover and canopy, sitting under it, and using it as a place of relaxation and comfort. The user can choose whether they want to deploy the cover, the canopy, or both simultaneously. While in use, the project will help the user relax, feel stress free, and escape from reality.  

The Weather Shade is an architectural addition to Maui Mall designed to allow users to escape the weather by providing shade against the heat and the cold of the rain. The weather shade panels open in response to sunlight, and on brisker, rainier days the hatch-like openings shut.

Based upon the folding panels along the Al Bahar towers in Abu Dhabi, the Weather Shade allows for users to seek a wider space of shelter from rain or sun on Maui. Along the panels, hatch-like openings raise or lower with the breeze of the wind depending on the conditions. If the sun shines, the panels react, if it is rain, the openings remain closed, allowing users to observe an arrow like pattern running along the panels, while maintaining the functionality of shielding those under the panels from the weather conditions on Maui. Whether it be rain or sweltering heat, the panels keep users dry or cool depending on the day. The overall vision of the Weather Shade is to allow for a more pleasing experience at Maui Mall.

The Transforming Bleacher Covers: a structure that contorts when heated creating shade for the users while resting on the bleachers. The users can use the bleacher to its full extent and make for a good experience.

The inspiration for this project was to allow the users to enjoy the outdoors and relax while also being comfortable on the bleachers in the shade. The basic technology behind the cover is that it is a shape memory alloy structure that when heated bends and creates shade over the bleachers. The innovation behind this project is the use of a rotating base allows the users to have a continuous amount of shade. The bleacher covers do not depend on the user’s interaction with it, rather the climate and the amount of sun during the day. This project was made for a wider audience and will hopefully be a useful structure for many inspiring those to go outside and engage the users in healthy and physical lifestyles.

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