Morphosis

Very few Architecture Firms create interesting websites but Morphosis have done just that and with a name like their’s you’d expect strong digital content. Check it out

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Collaborative Artefacts Interactive Furniture

Interactive Furniture is as important as Interactive Architecture in my book so this conference that my good friend Chris O’Shea was taking part in at Château-d’Oex ,a lovely Swiss village near Geneva is of interest to me. Check out the … Read More

Interactive Bubble Wall

Video of Installation

The multi-user installation ‘bubbles’ enables participants to interact with the realtime simulation of floating bubbles. By entering the light beam of the data projector, the participant casts a shadow onto the projection screen. the screen area is … Read More

Interactive Surfaces from loop.pH

loop.pH creates and develops new and reactive surfaces and objects, conducts an extensive range of research activities and collaborates with industry and multi-disciplinary groups.

loop.pH research explores electronically responsive and light emitting surfaces as a form of visual communication in … Read More

And more Rotating Spaces

Snail Shell System The SNAIL SHELL SYSTEM is a low cost system that enables persons to move around, change their whereabouts and live in various environments. One unit supplies space for one person. It is mobile both on land and … Read More

TurnOn – AWG

Since 2001, the Austrian architecture and design firm AllesWirdGut (“everything will go well,” in German) has sought to explore less conventional ideas of housing. Invited to participate in a young-designer’s exhibition on living space in Vienna, the five-person firm … Read More

Jason Bruges Studio

Puerta America Hotel.

Jason Bruges founded Jason Bruges Studio in 2001 to create interactive installations for a diverse range of clients. Working in collaboration with architect, Kathryn Findlay, the interactive installations are the only integrated artworks created for the … Read More

“Stereoscopic” Television

A bit of old school technology

Almost 77 years after the first demo of stereo TV in 1928 by John Baird,

there’s evidence of a strong resurgence of interest and research in immersive TV:

“The Japanese Government is … Read More

Cybrid Landscape, Chris O’Shea

Here’s a lovely little Piece by Chris O’Shea using the Arch-OS system of Portland Square Building at Plymouth University.

Using the buildings huge array of sensors various researchers are exploring future concepts for inteligent buildings, Chris O’Shea has used … Read More

SOFTROOM, Hot Links

Virtual and Physical Architects SOFTROOM are one of the few architecture firms to really embrace the potential of digital technology. Here’s a project they did for BBC building virtual datascapes.

3D Web Search Engines use depth and scale to … Read More

BIX, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria

The Bix Website

In 2003 Peter Cook (co-founder of Archigram) and Colin Fourner (Professor of the Bartlett School of Architecture) used a low-res application of programmable skin technology called BIX to bring to life the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria … Read More

Tobi Schneidler, RemoteHome

What I most like about the whole RemoteHome project is that it is a very personal kinetic tangible experience. I love the idea that sitting on furniture in one country could influence the shape of furniture in another. Tobi Schneidler … Read More

Zaha Hadid, Tokyo Guggenheim

The proposal by Zaha Hadid Architects offers a big, single space wrapped by a snakeskin like envelope, which is animated by a large integrated media-screen. The quality of the skin proposed has a snakeskin-like pixillation that allows the formally … Read More

SMARTSLABâ„¢

Tom Barker, an RCA graduate, runs b consultants ltd, an architectural consultancy responsible for the invention of an amazing multi media display system called SMARTSLABâ„¢. While working with Zaha Hadid on the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome, Tom … Read More

ICE , Bloomberg Headquarters, Toshio Iwai

Klein Dytham Architects and Toshio Iwai developed the ICE (Interactive Communicative Experience) for the Bloomberg Headquarters in Tokyo.

A 5 x 3.5m interactive wall suspended from a ceiling running FTSE and NASDAQ data flow accross it like ticker tape. When … Read More

Sky Ear, Usman Haque

Sky Ear is a collection of hundreds of helium filled balloons with mobile phone technology, electromagnetic sensors and colored lights that are activated by the sensors. by calling the phones attached to the balloons the electromagnetic fields created activate the … Read More

Not so White Walls

Quite a bit of this going on at the moment. Hypersurface or interactive screen like surfaces. Check out the Dario Buzzini’s website at interaction-ivrea for his personal interest in taking these ideas of interactive surfaces on.

The surface of … Read More

Systems of Exchange, Stephen Perrella, Hypersurfaces

Stephen Perrella’s hypersurface is a realitively new theory of liquid-embodied architecture to displace the nostalgia and re-realization being carried into the spatial conceptions of new-media technology. He doesn’t believe we should think of cyberspace with conventional assumptions but accept we … Read More