Architects of Air

Chill out zones are enjoying something of a revival at the moment, along with all architectural things one vaguely associates with the 1960’s. so it comes as no surprise to find “luminarium” by the outfit collectively know as Architects of … Read More

Interactive Architecture at Plymouth University

I spent the whole of Friday at Plymouth University’s Architecture School with Kirsty Curnow‘s Unit. Jason Bruges of famed interactive architects Jason Bruges Studio and my humble self did talks on our work and then spent the afternoon doing tutorials … Read More

Vital Signs – narchitects

an interactive installation for the Libery Science Center (NJ) designed to show breaking news about science to visitors in the museum. a continuous moebius strip of LEDs & projection screens allows visitors to view streaming information from all sides … Read More

Inflatable Space Architecture

Tourists need accommodation, and Las Vegas hotelier Robert Bigelow is aiming to supply it. Adapted from TransHab, a never-used NASA design for an inflatable space station, Bigelow’s Nautilus space station module will provide 330 cubic metres of living space … Read More

Sensacell

Here’s a cool little sensor product that uses capacitive sensing technology (the measure of minute electrical changes in elecrical capacity caused by objects moving in the immediate proximity of the sensing electrodes). What that means is that large conductive … Read More

Hello.Wall – AMBIENTE

The Hello.Wall is an ambient display that emits information via light patterns and is considered informative art.

As an integral part of the physical environment, Hello.Wall constitutes a seeding element of a social architectural space conveying awareness information and atmospheric … Read More

Lacuna – HMC MediaLab

Here’s HMC Medialab‘s Lacuna Project which is up and running at the Portland Square Building in Plymouth, UK.

Lacuna is a response to the relationship between body and architecture in the cyborg era. Existing in the perceived ‘gap’ between … Read More

SAILS: Self-Assembling Intelligent Lighter-Than-Air Structures

film for discovery channel

“The Mascarillons are the first rigid aerobots developed for the [ SAILS ] project. They are flying cubic automata able to develop collective behaviors and assemblages through swarm-intelligence protocols.”

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Interesting idea for constantly … Read More

under scan – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

I’m really looking forward to going up to Lincon to see this Publin Installation by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in action this Friday. The installational will be running from the 25th of November till the 4th of December 2005

UNDER SCAN … Read More

Stereoscopic Projection – merging Physical and Virtual spaces

Using image warping of a projection based on viewer perspective it is possible to extend a physical space with virtual projections that respond to your movement. Using view-dependent image-based and geometric warping, radiometric compensation, and multi-focal projection these guys … Read More

Dorkbot – London

people doing strange things with electricity

Monday 21st November, 7pm.

I’m doing a talk about my own work and interactivearchitecture.org at State51 off Brick Lane. Here are the details, if your in the area please come along.

state51 8 … Read More

Festo – Fluidic Muscle MAS

Over the last few months I’ve been trying to rationalise how to go from concept to engineering on my current kinetic architecture project. Festo for me has been a good place to go looking for innovative products that are proven … Read More

MuscleBody – Kas Oosterhuis

Kas Oosterhuis runs the Hyperbody Research Group at Delft. Here’s the MuscleBody Project.

The MuscleBody project consists of a fully kinetic and interactive architecture that is a full-scale prototype of an interior space. The project is an architectural body … Read More

Responsive Space – KRD

Exhibited at The Kelvingrove Gallery, Glasgow. KRD were commissioned for the Design Machine Exhibition. The aim was to make visitor experience the manipulation and exploration of space, without an enforce defined technique or direction.

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Clad internally with … Read More

Ada : The Inteligent Room

Ada is a novel artificial organism, a creature in the shape of a space that can perceive and react to its surroundings. At the same time, her form facilitates a novel interaction between humans and machine that goes beyond … Read More

MicroHUD Head-Up Display

Fancy playing around with Head Up Displays like they use in Fighterjets and are now starting to use in high end executive cars such as the BMW 5 and 6 Series.

Made by Microvision The MicroHUDâ„¢ evaluation kit is … Read More

Clever Carpets

Not that I would consider carpet my first choice for interior design, its interesting now how more and more inteligent systems are being introduced into furnishing products such as carpets.

Carpets with inbuilt intelligence can now run office functions … Read More

Vectorial Elevation – Relational Architecture #4

A few years old now but I’m researching how you can build space with light at the moment so I thought I’d put this up for posterity. Vectorial Elevation was an interactive artwork designed to transform the Zócalo square … Read More