This may explain why the black, green and yellow shapes printed on the wrap of the roofless pavilion are nonworking representations of the different electronic devices that engineers call ''strictly notional.'' An eight-foot panel beside the pavilion, however, displays working versions of all of them. The catch is that SmartWrap and other new technologies are still rare and expensive, and only some are becoming commercially viable. Kieran said, O.L.E.D.'s could display any pattern or image desired - the facade of Mount Vernon, for example, or an advertisement. Organic light-emitting diodes (O.L.E.D.'s) that illuminate and change color are part of the SmartWrap package, too. So-called phase change materials, already used in skiing socks and some forms of drywall, can help control temperature. The skin incorporates ultrathin solar panels to collect energy and flat chemical batteries to store it. SmartWrap not only goes up quickly and is hundreds of times lighter than traditional brick and mortar, but it also has no seams that can leak. Only a few days were needed to erect the aluminum frame and wrap it in plastic sheets. Timberlake, 50, came to New York to supervise the construction of a SmartWrap pavilion, 16 feet square and 24 feet high, in the Cooper-Hewitt garden. Kieran, 52, who is half of KieranTimberlake Associates, a Philadelphia firm specializing in buildings for colleges and universities. ''This is the building skin of the future,'' said Mr. Those lightweight walls will also be ''smart.'' Just as circuits are printed on plastic for small electronic devices, SmartWrap prints onto PET plastic (what soda bottles are made of) flat devices that will insulate, heat and provide power and light. Timberlake, who are architects, believe building walls of the future will be. LAST week, Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake watched a worker install a banner for their show, ''SmartWrap,'' on a garden wall of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
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