Research Articles
Alsop designs ‘Kiss for Shanghai’
August 24, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsNot exactly Interactive Architecture but my other passion is moving architecture so here’s some recent news from dexigner
A British based team lead by Alsop Design and Arup are to create a landmark structure to attract visitors to … Read More
Access – Marie Sester
August 19, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnWhile this project explores the wider ideas of surveillence what most interests me and what i want to get my hands on, are the acoustic beam audio projectors.
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Access is a public art installation that applies web and … Read More
dRMM – Summer Internship
August 16, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnI’ve been working for dRMM (de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects) this Summer which has been an absolute pleasure. They have a number of award winning projects under their belt and were recent winners of the ‘Best New Practice’ Building … Read More
Listening Post – Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin
August 11, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentVideo
Listening Post won the Golden Nica at the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival in the category of Interactive Art; other winners included Creative Commons and the Wikipedia
Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time … Read More
Rem Koolhaas & IDEO – Interactive dressing rooms
August 6, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnIDEO Project Details
In December 2001 the Italian haute couturier Prada opened its groundbreaking new “epicenter” store in New York City, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. IDEO, working with Koolhaas and his architecture and research firm OMA/AMO, created … Read More
Mirror, UVA
August 2, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnUVA’s first gallery installation, Mirror inhabits an area between portraiture, sculpture, and the motion studies of pioneers such as Eadweard Muybridge. A stereo camera pair creates a moving three-dimensional image of the viewer, projected in real time into … Read More
Usman Haque – Open Source Architecture
August 1, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnOur constructed environment, with its direct impact on people every day and its constant transformation through use and reuse, is a collectively designed project. It incorporates vastly different and sometimes conflicting logics. The issues arising from people’s differing perspectives and … Read More
realities:united
July 27, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentThese guys have had some great projects working as a consultancy and research group looking at the communicative potential of architecture using digital systems.
As part of the commission for the conception for the thorough integration of media technology … Read More
Vital Signs nArchitects
July 24, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentVITAL SIGNS, LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER
In collaboration with: Batwin+Robin, Sawad Brooks/OPENWORK, Paul Yarin/BLACKDUST). Vital Signs is an interactive installation designed to disseminate breaking news about science to visitors in the museum. A continuous and permeable moebius strip of LEDs … Read More
Kinetic Light Sculpture of the Zeilgalerie
July 21, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsKinetic Light Sculpture of the Zeilgalerie is a permanent installation on the facade of the Zeilgalerie in Frankfurt and was finished along with the building in September 1992.
During the day, the perforated surface of the sheet metal, … Read More
NOX Son-O-House
July 19, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | 3 CommentsOne of my favourite Architects at the moment here’s Son-O-House by NOX
Located in a a large industrial park the Son-O-House is a public pavilion where visitors can sit around, eat their lunch and have meetings, surrounded by IT related … Read More
Rem Koolhaas Interview for ICON
July 17, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnHaving just finished reading Content a very fun and insightful book I thought I’d see what else Rem Koolhaas had to say for himself.
We’ve all heard of The Office for Metropolitan Architecture, the architectural equivalent of MIT … Read More
Design Boom – Interviews
July 12, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnI’m really interested in other peoples opinions at the moment, probably because I’ve just spent the last year trying to develop my own opinions and lost sight a little of my peers. Winning the Innovation Award at Submerge this year … Read More
Peter Anders – Cyberspace Interview
July 9, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnPeter Anders has been involved with work at the Institute of Digital Art and Technology at Plymouth University, in particular Arch-OS and discussing its potential. Here’s an interview discussing the similarity of imaginary or virtual space and physical space.
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Interactive Architecture – Only way is Up
July 9, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnHere’s a nice quote from Column Network about the growth of Interactive Architecture.
“In the next few years, emerging practices in interactive architecture are set to transform the built environment. “Smart” design was once regarded as the preserve of museum … Read More
Installation – MIT
July 4, 2005 | Ruairi Glynnvideo
Installation is a system designed by Simon Greenwold at the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, consisting of a viewing window and a stylus with which users can create virtual forms and install them permanently into … Read More
Submerge Awards
July 1, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentAll the Exhibition Photos
Submerge Graduate Exhibition was a huge success for myself and my fellow MediaLab Arts Colleagues with some of the class of 2005 winning as awesome combined 75% of the awards.
I won 1st Prize … Read More
Contour Crafting
July 1, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnFor thousands of years building houses has been a slow process but Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California has come up with a radical solution. One that if it works properly will revolutionize architecture. This has … Read More
Tung
Tung is interested in the the Growing Design movement and looks to explore this through her project, Vital Morphons. Some sources of inspiration include: Next Nature, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, and Liv...
Respoken
Is there music behind the way we speak? Respoken is an interactive installation that creates an experience from the user’s voice. A stage for self-expression and an invitation for intimacy manifesti...