Karl Schroeder, “Cyberspace, R.I.P.”

Great Quote I thought I’d put on since I was recently asked what the relationship between cyberspace and interactive architecture is.

Cyberspace, RIP by Karl Schroeder from Future Now

“It’s this overlay of the virtual over the real that makes … Read More

Peter Marino – Tokyo – Chanel

With a 10-floor palace of glass at the ritziest of all Tokyo addresses, Chanel launched its biggest boutique in the world. The store opened December 4, 2004. This lavish building in the Ginza district features a concert hall, a … Read More

Primal Graphics – Jim Campbell

This is an Installation that was at Battery Park in New York a while ago by Jim Campbell whose website has dozens of his installation works that play with light, movement and ideas about memory.

“In Primal Graphics, a … Read More

Interactive Facades by Edigma

Interactive Facades are appearing all over the place at the moment and here’s a product that is selling it to the commercial market to entice shoppers in through inital interactive events that can occur inside or remotely from the architecture.

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Adam Greenfield on Ubiquitous Computing

Ubiquitous Computing integrates computation into the environment, rather than having computers which are distinct objects. An major aspect of interactive architecture “Ubicomp” is an essential part of embedding architecture with digital systems.

Here’s an English translation of an interview recently … Read More

escher like you’ve never seen it before

Okay so this isn’t interactive architecture but I love this piece of work made by Andrew Lipsom, so I thought I’d share it with you.

from gravestmor

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Paper-thin Batteries

NEC Corp. said Dec. 7 it has developed a thin, pliable battery that can be charged in about 30 seconds. The new product, 4 centimeters square and 0.3 millimeter thick, can light a light-emitting diode for about 20 minutes after … Read More

3D LED Matrix BIG and small Voxels

Cubatron

Cubatron‘s maker claims it to be the “world’s largest true 3D color graphics display” however I know from speaking to someone who specializes in interactive architectural lighting that there is a much bigger one being developed for one of … Read More

Allianz Arena – Herzog & de Meuron

Allianz Arena designed by Swiss architectural office Herzog & de Meuron for FC Bayern München and TSV 1860 München.

A cascade of colour (white, red, blue) can be projected onto the smooth lozenge-shaped curved exterior made of inflatable ETFE … Read More

RCA & Philips – Glowing Places

Glowing Places

Glowing Places is a concept from an investigation into innovative ways for people to interact with light in public spaces. The plastic seating, embedded with LED (light-emitting diode) strips and sensors, measure the presence of people … Read More

Intelligent Automatic Doors

Those Japanese have done it again. This time a door that senses the approaching shape of an object entering and opens to that shape. This new design entails strips equipped with infrared sensors that open to the approximate shape … Read More

Elementlabs – Versa TILE and Versa PIXEL

elementlabs

One of the many interactive hypersurface technology companies on the market.

Below are two of their products the Versa TILE and Versa PIXEL

Versa TILE

Video – I feel a little sorry for the kid.

How does it … Read More

The Space Between

I’ve just seen the first printed copy of this new magazine devised by Christian Kerrigan and Nick Tayler. Its strong empasis is highlighting young talented people from a whole range of artistic disciplines from London to New York to Barcelona … Read More

The Future of Wearable Computing

Interesting introductory article on the future of ‘Wearable Computing’

Image Above – Motion Aware Clothing M.A.C. unobtrusively integrates various sensors as well as computational and communication abilities in a textile. ” Currently a 1kg, A5 sized subnotebook with … Read More

Sonia Cillari – Evolving models and interactive environments

SONIA CILLARI discribes herself as a digital architect, her projects explore digital architectural models which can be viewed online in interactive 3D.

“These projects explore the application of dynamic methods to design architectural models in digital environments.

Against the … Read More

Surface Architects – Razorfish HQ

Surface Architects won a limited competition to design a radical landmark headquarters for the once monolithic but now defunct Internet design company Razorfish, with an explosion of sensory layers to provide a complex and varied environment for 500 staff.

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LightTank

This came from old class mate Chris O’Shea aka Pixelsumo. He’s blogged an experiment some of his collegues at AllofUs (Orlando Mathias and Mickey Stretton) did with a tank of water and a projector.

“By projecting simple white … Read More

SPOTS – realities:united

SPOTS, which is on show at Potsdamer Platz 10, is currently one of the world’s largest media facades. For a period of eighteen months, the eleven-storey glazed main facade of this office building will host the light and media art … Read More