BIX, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
May 25th, 2005
The Bix Website
In 2003 Peter Cook (co-founder of Archigram) and Colin Fourner (Professor of the Bartlett School of Architecture) used a low-res application of programmable skin technology called BIX to bring to life the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria , a venue for multi-disciplinary exhibitions. The skin wrapped around the entire body of the building displaying constantly changing images designed by artist and curators. ‘BIX enables the institution to present a transparency of information and content and to further develop methods for dynamic communication between buildings and their surroundings, between internal content and outside perception.’ The structure of the walls no longer separates the inside from the outside but instead becomes a mediator to the public.
‘The skins and surface envelope of buildings become programmable surfaces, photo sensitive membranes that narrate, design and inform the spatial organization of the volumes and interpret their functions.’
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1. Interactive Architecture &hellip | September 15th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
[…] As part of the commission for the conception for the thorough integration of media technology into the architecture for the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria (see project Kunsthaus Graz) , real:United designed the award winning “communicative display skin” BIX for the building. Using standard industrial fluorescent light tubes BIX transforms the outer biomorphic skin of the building, which is constructed out of translucent blue acrylic glass panels, into a low resolution grey scale computer display. Watch their Video Documentation of the Project […]
2. Inato | July 27th, 2006 at 7:10 am
in other words this is a good example to the new world of hypersurfaces - a new concept.
3. Ruairi | July 27th, 2006 at 9:54 am
Hypersurfaces are by no means a new concept Stephen Perrellas books Hypersurface Architecture framed these ideas of media surfaces some time ago
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