The start

Introduction into the project.
Turris Motus, Latin for tower with movement, is a project that started when I was trying to make the corrugated core of a sandwich panel. What I noticed was that it would bend in y-direction when you induced bending in x-direction, something I would later find out is called Poisson's ratio.
A few experiment later I build a tower with some control strings to animate the structure, you can see a video of this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hzFRypYEpE

Currently I am investigating the properties and laws behind the movement of TurrisMotus in the course Stand-Up Architecture At the faculty of Architecture from the TU Delft.