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

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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

Living Wall

Living Wall is an ambient installation collecting, recomposing and playing sonic memories. The computational processes that take place are displayed on four architectural scale LED matrices with a total number of 3000 white superflux LEDs.

The installation has … Read More

Dynamic Terrain РJanis P̦nisch

My Personal Interests within Interactive Architecture are surrounding Kinetic interaction and adaptive space so I was pleased when Janis Pönisch got in touch about his project Dynamic Terrain. Janis explains below his intentions for the installation and its relatioship with … Read More

Lightbulb – Jeff Lieberman

Here's a great piece I saw a while ago and meant to post. Jeff Lieberman has explores two phenomena, the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, and wireless power transmission. Feedback systems often levitate objects, stabilize inverted pendulums, and … Read More

Liquid Architectures

Liquid Architectures Online Discussion (March 1 – 30)

Tate Online Discussion Forums Part of a string of events throught March in London called Nodel the Tate is bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of theorists and practitioners to debate … Read More

Architecture and Sound

Tonight on the Subject of Architecture and Sound, John Bell, a lecturer at the Architectural Association London and director of transdisciplinary practice fxv.org will be moderating a discussion on resonance104.4FM .

Usman Haque , Flow Motion, and Janek Schaefer will … Read More

Hotel Habitat

I posted earlier this year the details of the Hotel Habitat building developed by Cloud9. I've just come accross some lovely more images so I thought I'd stick a few up. Further images .

“The Habitat Hotel will … Read More

BIP – Building Interactive Playgrounds

Applications for entry are currently open to participate in the second edition of BIP, an International Competition for interaction design projects for public events.

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There looking for “Real projects that can substantially and meaningfully enrich the Elettrowave … Read More

Electroland

A couple of interactive architecture projects by Electroland

Interactive Walkways – Movie

This project features two glass pedestrian bridges designed as “Interactive Walkways,” each with a field of LED lights embedded in resilient walking surfaces. Sensors detect … Read More

LightPoints – SCHOTT

Here's some pretty slick glass/light technology called LightPoints, one of many architectural materials developed by Schott. Not specifically designed to be interactive but with some cleverly placed sensors and DMX control system for LED switching there's potential for some very … Read More

Infiniti Interactive Mirrors

There's more and more Interactive Mirrors appearing in Interactive Architecture. Here's a really nice example currently on display at the Chicago Auto Show and will be moving to the New York Auto Show in April

Infiniti division of Nissan … Read More

see/saw – Chapman + Utterback

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see/saw is an interactive installation in which visitors' manipulations of a real see-saw control the fluctuation of power and emotion in the story of an intimate relationship. A pair of words are projected on the walls … Read More