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Environmental
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Architecture, Devices, Environmental, Kinetic
Spinning Streetlights
01.28.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsHere’s an interesting wind powered streetlight from the Panasonic Center in Tokyo that I found on hyperexperience blog run by Leonardo Bonanni of MediaLab. I’m a big fan of using these Vertical Axis Wind Turbines for integrating into urban skylines when traditional propellers often seem too dramatic.
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Architecture, Devices, Environmental, Events, Kinetic, Networked
Living City
01.14.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsArchitects ‘The Living‘ did a great presentation on their design approach to rapid low cost prototyping of interactive environments and construction techniques last year at the ‘Interactive Architecture & Media’ symposium I organised at Eyebeam last February. They’re currently having an exhibition at the Van Alen Institute gallery in New York running till January 18th, […]
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Architecture, Bartlett, Environmental, Interactive, Kinetic, Lighting, Networked, Scuplture/Installation
Life Spectulatrix - Augmented Architectures
Video
Here’s one of Augmented Architecture’s prototypes that I saw at the ACADIA07 earlier this year. “Life Spectulatrix” is an evolutionary physical skin based on digital environmental feedback retrieved through the webspace. Architect Nancy Diniz describes how it becomes a “universally situated living piece” through its own evolutionary behaviour in relation to global environmental information as […] -
Environmental, Interactive, Lighting
Energy Conservation using Sensory Technologies
Video by Honda
Its always interesting seeing how large scale commercial industries have tapped into the ideas of sensory and actuator rich environments. By chance I came accross an entertaining advert by Honda, that asks what if "things knew when they weren’t be used, wouldnt we save a whole load of energy." Of course we are […] -
Environmental, Interactive, Kinetic, Lighting, Visual
Jason Bruges Studio - Wind to Light
At the Tate last saturday Jason Bruges Studio talked about a number of their recent projects including this one called ‘wind to light’ which you may have seen featured in the press earlier in the summer, Jason described how it was created to inspire people to think creatively about the spaces that surround […]
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Environmental, Lighting, Networked, Scuplture/Installation
House Swarming - Infranatural
Commissioned for the Art Center presentation of “Open House,” House Swarming is a site-specific installation that operates as both a complex light pattern that greets visitors and as an environment-sensing device. During the day, the “swarm” of green ambiguous forms, both biomorphic and geometric, accentuates the South Campus’s main entry. At twilight, the […]
