The group continued to decide on the details of the project. They decided to modify an existing facade plan built in Dubai. The new design will keep the functional aspects, but also allow for a view, which is now often blocked by the structure of the facade. The new design will be much more retractable than the current facade.
When beginning preliminary design sketches the group determined that keeping the hexagonal shape would be the most convenient. Each window of the building would have it's own hexagonal shade. At first the group wanted each leaf of the hexagon to be able to fan out independently, blocking different sections of the windows, etc.
Later the group decided that perhaps the six different solid leaves of the hexagon could be folded in half in three different directions, allowing users to make three different light shelves depending on the angle of the sun. However, they encountered a problem when deciding how the joints would operate.
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