SolPix: A Giant LED Display That Doubles as a Solar Shield

SolPix, a prototype for a combined media-wall/solar blind premieres at the Cooper-Hewitt.

SolPix combines two of the biggest trends in facade architecture: Solar shielding and media walls. It functions first as a set of
heavy-duty blinds that can shift according to the strength of the sun.

But the blinds themselves have photovoltaics in them, as well as LEDs. The PV array uses the energy it gathers to create the media
facade pictured below:

In addition, the system monitors its own...