Window that morphs into a balcony

http://www.bloomframe.nl/index.php

by CWIZO • 16 years ago

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snowbrook• 16 years ago

She must live in an area with no flying insects.

davidmurphy• 16 years ago

Cool stuff, but the video should be faster, or at least allow you to jump ahead.

Semiapies2• 16 years ago

If the video were faster, people would complain about it being faster than the actual device.

profquail• 16 years ago

That is a really cool design. I was thinking that they should have made something slide over the "floor" glass though, so you don't get footprint/shoeprints on it (and thus have to clean it after every time you use it).

dirtbox• 16 years ago

A rug?

Something to save from inevitable upskirts at least.

randallsquared• 16 years ago

Did they just add that? I mean, it does appear to have a whitish barrier that slides up to cover the floor.

gnubardt• 16 years ago

They could use Smart Glass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_glass) to make the bottom opaque when in balcony position.

euroclydon• 16 years ago

They should have shown her big fat boyfriend come out there also, so that #1, I'll feel safe about the weight rating, and #2, I'll know that even if I'm big and fat, this window will help me land babes.

hrabago• 16 years ago

Their about page shows a group of people all standing on the balcony. http://www.bloomframe.nl/about.php

dagobart• 16 years ago

If you'd fit such a balcony to an existing app building and the balcony indeed would hold the weight of a group of people, I would still wonder whether the house's frame would hold the balcony.

harpastum• 16 years ago

From the pdf on the site, it looks like it can hold over 1,500 lbs.

[1] 2500 N/m^2 * (2.62m * 1.05m) => pounds

Sukotto• 16 years ago

very cool. does it have to take so long to deploy or were they just going for dramatic tension?

kiba• 16 years ago

An idea so simple that I would never thought of it in a million year.

ars2• 16 years ago

Because it's a solution looking for a problem?

Make a balcony, add a sliding (or pocket) glass door and done. Why would you need to convert between them?

ardit33• 16 years ago

in places with long winters, makes sense. Eg. In boston, october - may the weather is crappy, and there is not a need for a balcony. You will have to deal with cleaning it, snow, etc.

Just lock it, and when the good weather comes, open it. Plus it seems that it will be easy to retrofit to existing apt. buildings.

If it is cheap enough, why not.

FiReaNG3L• 16 years ago

Must be fun to clean the inside of the window

vincent_vega• 16 years ago

Am I the only one who thought "hey, mini skirt and transparent balocny floor...nicccceee"

buro9• 16 years ago

Erm, how do you clean the outside of the glass? If you're high enough to benefit from putting a balcony in then this design prevents you from cleaning the outside.

I know that Pilkington made some hydrophobic layer for one of their products a while ago that meant that the rain would clean the window (or a hose), but that was years ago and doesn't seem to have found favour (I've not heard of it since).

Window that morphs into a balcony

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