PODNET (post-digital architecture network) event

If you can’t make it to Game Set Match II in Delft there’s two days of a range of presentations coming up in London, including live robot demonstrations, academic papers, videos and art works exploring the many routes by which … Read More

Virtual Operation Room – HRG and ONL

Following the theme of the Hyperbody research Group I thought I’d show a project of theirs from a couple of years ago which reflects the virtual side of their research into interactive adaptive architecture.

A time-based architecture for the augmented … Read More

Muscle Tower II – Hyperbody Research Group

In the spirit of my up coming trip to the Game Set Match II conference I thought I’d show a bit of the work that the Hyperbody Research Group have been doing in recent times. I have to admit … Read More

Bitfall

Website (german)

Bitfall is an installation where water is being used to project images taken from the internet. A computer observes various news websites and chooses thereafter the images to be displayed. 128 nozzles are controlled by synchronised … Read More

Game Set and Match II – Delft

Wed 29th – Friday 31st March 2006 Delft Faculty of Architecture – Map

I’m really looking forward to going to Game Set and Match II held at Delft University of Technology next week. It’s a three-day symposium organized … Read More

Mirror_SPACE – Brigitta Zics

Short listed for this years Europrix Top Award in Cross Media Mirror_SPACE was my personal bet to win. It didn’t but I still think it was the best piece in that category, which was also the category my own project … Read More

FXV

John Bell, director of FXV Design and unit 9 master at London’s Architectural Association, makes hybrid environments at the interface of architecture and digital culture. FXV’s work explores the possibility that architecture is just as much a media event … Read More

Luxury Floating Hotel in the Air

Worldwide Aeros Corporation are co-developing with WATG a flying Hotel and speculate the behemoth cruise liner complete with staterooms, restaurants, shops, etc. will be built by 2010. Testing will begin in 18 months on a smaller test version of … Read More

BioWall – Loop.pH

“ As it becomes increasingly difficult to read the signs of our natural environment in urban, built landscapes we use plants in our work as we consider them to be the most sophisticated of sensors and displays. ”

An … Read More

Easyweb – Site specific Video performances

I don’t speak french very well so I won’t attempt to translate what Easyweb say on their site. Instead I recommend you just look at this magical video .

Update – 14th March

Regine from the awesome we make … Read More

Boutique Vizique

Here are a few projects from Boutique Vizique (Hendrik Leper and Stijn Schiffeleers)

Drawplay

‘ Drawplay ‘ is an audiovisual installation that generates audio and reveals video according to your drawing on a touchscreen imbedded in a soft bench. … Read More

dVitral – electrochromic glass

Heres's a speculative piece that uses the potential of electrochromic glass to produce interactive architectural facades. I've seen a few examples of this technology in privacy screens in offices and houses and I'm sure somewhere in Japan they have made … Read More

Devolution – Prosthetic Limbs and Robotic Creatures

The Australian Dance Theatre's new show will feature prosthetic limbs, large-scale ambulating robotic creatures (some of them strapped to dancers) and a kinetic set and lighting design.

Devolution is a collaboration between Australian Dance Theatre and French-Canadian robotics artist … Read More

Living Skins: Architecture as Interface – Peter Hall

Buildings communicate their function and status through a language of visual signs… What if a sign did not simply tout new movies, sodas, and celebrity babies in one-way feeds, but instead revealed something unique about the building, its occupants, or … Read More

Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture

11-12 March 2006

Oudenoord 275, Utrecht, Netherlands

Website

Between September and December 2005 the Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture brought together a large international group of people to think about what all this means for spatial design … Read More

Inner Force – Shu-Min Lin

Shu-Min Lin's work Inner Force applies to the practice of the wu-wei principle of Taoism , which means “action without competitive or selfish goals”.

A pool of water is projected on the floor. Participants have to compete to fill … Read More

Feel – Animi Causa

Okay so this isn't interactive but it is reconfigurable and thats enough for me. Here's the beautifully simple piece of furniture from Animi Causa called Feel. It's a grid of 120 soft balls that can be folded and arranged … Read More

Interactive Children’s Library – Interactive Spaces

Heres a project in development by InteractiveSpaces who are an interdisciplinary research center bringing together architecture, engineering, and computer science with the research mission to create new concepts for future interactive spaces. They also bring together companies and public researchers … Read More