My House Is Smarter Than Your House

Decker Yeadon's Homeostatic Facade System is on the building at right.

Until recently, shape-changing materials have been used mainly in medicine and engineering. But things are about to get really exciting, as architects and designers are starting to incorporate them into their creations. One example is the Homeostatic Facade System, a rather Keith Haring-looking maze of metal ribbon that festoons the outside of a building and conserves energy by opening and closing as the ambient temperature changes (story, video): http://www.archdaily.com/533679/how-do-mysterious-memory-materials-work/