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Lánchíd 19 Design Hotel, Budapest
The unique glass facade was designed by the groups Sz?vetség ‘39 and Nextlab. These two groups of young professionals, working on experimental developments, set up a workgroup of engineers, producers and co-artists for this project. The duty of this workgroup was to fill the architects’ idea with tangible content and, besides the unique technological solutions, to make an individual artwork. The huge fingerprint-patterns of the glass bridges in the atrium and the butterfly-pattern that can be seen on the front stone wall of the hotel are also the results of this design process. The hotel’s moveable accordion-like glass fa?ade is an autonomous artwork. It provides unique pictures in the night, so the hotel stands as a kind of ‘lighthouse’ on the Danube riverbank. The movement of the glass lamellas that are painted with tiny graphics generally follows the flow speed of the Danube, but based on the signals of the meteo-sensor on the top of the hotel, the movement intensifies in strong wind and smoothes when the wind stops. via: www.lanchid19.blogspot.com FUSE, New York The FUSE music-television network, based in New York City, plays rock, alternative, punk, hardcore, emo and indie music. It claims a techsavvy audience ready to interact with the network via the Internet, cellphones and other wireless devices. Fuse recognized its product’s popularity, said Fuse VP of Operations Dave Alworth, but needed an equally effective “public” profile to contend as a new, New York City icon. “Ultimately, the challenge we faced was how to use the signage to bring the Fuse television studio onto the sidewalk,” said Fitch’s studio director, George Kewin, AIA. “Vice versa, we also wanted to bring the viewing pedestrians ‘into’ the studio to have a more personal contact with the brand.” Fitch proposed four types of LED displays that formed a series of overlapping sightlines to constantly draw viewers’ attention, first to the building, then to the building’s windows. From a distance, the Fuse channel letters, in which videoscreens are embedded, are visible at least six blocks south. As pedestrians approach the building, a second sign system, a series of overhead, high-definition videoscreens, displays endlessly changing colors, video imagery and text messages across the building. For the third sign attraction, a “zipper” electronic message center snakes in and out of the serpentine contours of four, two-story-tall window bays, continues down into the sidewalk in front of the building and ends underneath the channel letters. Finally, surprised viewers watch as LED-display curtains fold and disappear behind the windows in front of them. The curtain system comprises a mechanical framework that holds the Text by Louis M. Brill (louisbrill[at]sbcglobal.net) Click for full article Moorfield Eye Hospital, London Highlighting Eye Lighting The light produces very accurate output with great sensitivity placed on the vertical cut off to prevent glare for people looking outside the window. All the light goes away from the glass to prevent direct glare of the occupants. The lighting system is controlled via a DMX 512 controller – with a Light Projects’ designed programme to create shifting light scenes using an imaginative mix of subtle colours as a celebration of light and to create a living, breathing experience. The system can be overridden with certain special themes such as for specific events and for static colour washing. By: lightprojects.co.uk Allianz Arena, Munich The Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron designed the Allianz Arena with its unique diamond-shaped illuminated outer facade, chancing between red, blue and white. More than 25,000 long-life fluorescent tubes enable the impressive illumination of the Allianz Arena.
via: sponsoring.allianz.com, newyorker.com This project has been shown at the Media Facades Exhbition Berlin 2008 and was published in the Exhibition Companion Media Architecture Conference 2007 / Video Documentation You can play the videos in full screen mode as well, by clicking on the black icon left to volume control. For more information on the conference please click [here] spectr|a|um _ audiovisual lounge – Nuit blanche Brussels, 29.09.2007 spectr|a|um offers a night with audiovisual performances and visual art on the 145 m high Dexia Tower, from which 4200 windows will be enlightened by internationally renowned musicians and artists, taking place on Place Rogier’s urban lounge and Dexia Tower.
Reprojected, Munich
Reprojected is currently on display on the “Seven Screens” in Munich, an installation consisting of seven double-sided state-of-the-art LED-steles, each one of them measuring six metres in height. It transfers and reworks the actual spatial situation of the piece’s site.
In contrast to common filmic language, “reprojected” takes a distanced point of view, which exclusively focusses on the shadows of computer-simulated people. They attain visibility only by means of a light source, which is moving in virtual space between and across the steles.
The video projected onto the “Seven screens” plays with the perception of the space between and introduces a distance between the depicted events and the installation. Dear Guests and Speakers of Media Architecture 2007, On behalf of the team of organisers I’d like to thank you for having spent two great days with us. It was mainly your contributions, questions and comments that made it a success. In the next days and week we want to provide more documentation material of the conference and of course we keep on posting projects and news in the field of Media Architecture. If you have the impression that a certain project is missing here please send me an e-mail: gt[at]realitylab.at or use the “Suggest a project” button. I hope you have enjoyed the conference, Media Architecture Conference 2007 On 11th and 12th September Media Architecture 2007 will take place at Central Saint Martins Innovation in central London. Organised by Media Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to address the increasing integration of new display technologies for building construction. The huge impact of this development for building design and the urban environment will be explored from both theoretical and practical implementation perspectives by leaders in the field. The conference takes place at the same and is co-organised with PLASA, the international lighting exhibition at Earls Court, London. Kubik, Berlin
Illumininated cubes, visuals, electronic Beats: Three components of which the new open air club Kubik consists. Already from a distance the bright installation can be seen, located near the east station. It is based on the concept ?Big tank“ for which dozens of conventional 1000 litre water tanks have been arranged to a temporary installation.
Besides the spatial element the concept from modulorbeat provides the tanks in each case with a illuminant. In addition, the water tanks shine thereby for the visitors of the club, but also fulfill a other purpose: Different VJs will program the tanks visually on the weekends at the beginning of dawn.
The lamps in the tanks are individually controllable and can be served thereby like an oversize video wall. Kubik is organized of Balestra Berlin, which invite DJs from all over Europe in order to supplement the visual plays of the BigTanks by electronic Beats. via:www.modulorbeat.de |
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