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Portable-deflatable Led-Matrix by Werkzeug H Manfred from Werkzeug H, Vienna bought a led driver (a Borg 16) at the 24C3 last year. He decided to try something new – a portable deflatable 16×16 led matrix. The main construction goal was to make it real easy to assemble, lightweight and weatherproof. I think it took the team some time for the design process and a lot more time to build – but this is what finally came out!
“Constellation” at Covent Garden, London TARMLED SHINES BRIGHT AT COVENT GARDEN IN LONDON “Constellation” A work by United Visual Artists Ltd UVA present their latest responsive installation commissioned by Covent Garden as part of their Delight Christmas campaign this year. “Constellation“ is a light-based sculpture which has been designed especially for the Covent Garden Market Halls. TARMLED GmbH & Co. KG of Bochum, Germany supplied a total of 578, 2m long, double-sided, LED-strips, and 37 DPDUs (Data Power Distribution Units), to power the installation in the English capital that has become the talk of the town after just a few days of operation. In just 10 weeks TARMLED’s engineers developed double-sided, video-compatible LED-strips based on it’s TARMLED STRIP 25-modules that were premiered at the “PLASA 2008″ show. The LED strips were incorporated into polycarbonate tubes coated with a semitransparent reflective film, in accordance with UVA’s design. Together with 37 customised TARMLED DPDU’s, the tubes are allowed to hang elegantly in the space, as the DPDU’s allow for cable runs of maximum 20m from the fixture using a single CAT5e cable carrying data and power to each fixture. The 25mm pixel spacing of the TARMLED STRIP and UVA’s regular grid layout of the tubes allow for spectacular 3D-displays of voluminous, complex, geometric patterns and effects. The system is entirely driven by UVA’s d3 production system. Technical details: 1156 x 2m strips of TARMLED STRIP 25 Constellation is a 3-dimensional volumetric lighting installation. It is the first of its kind in the world and features 600 custom-made LED tubes elegantly encased in a one-way mirror film. Constellation was also individually controllable using a custom-designed control panel, giving the installation an intimate connection with the public. During the day it is a beautiful grid of chromed columns hanging elegantly in the space. At night it transforms into a 3-dimensional lighting display. Constellation was designed especially for the indoors of Covent Garden Market Halls. Launched as the flagship piece of the winter season program at Covent Garden 2008. by/via: United Visual Artists, Tarmled BEYOND MEDIA festival, Florence The next edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival -which will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, July 9-17, 2009- will once again offer the opportunity to enhance the architectural discourse by means of a wider awareness of the role of the media of communication in the professional, academic and public field. The ninth edition of the Florence festival is titled “VISIONS”. It seems as if contemporary architecture lost, in the last years, its ability to pursue broad visions, to collect with a wide outlook the complex transformations of the built environment, to lead its thoughts and conscience beyond that which is usual, empirical, and visible. The massive production and consumption of architectural images resulted in a greater vicinity, on the part of the general public, to design issues. But, at the same time, they produced an alteration in the way people conceive architecture, and affected the ability and the opportunity to generate visions, and hence theories, which are deeply rooted in our times but, at the same time, are receptive towards new possible scenarios. With “VISIONS”, the BEYOND MEDIA festival suggests to carefully think over topics of figuration and representation, and will put forward more effective visions which might be useful in tracing the outlines of our possible future. Stereoskope by Project Blinkenlights, Toronto After a long break, Project Blinkenlights is coming back big time in Toronto, Canada this year. Targeting the landmark building of Toronto City Hall, the group is participating in this year’s Nuit Blanche all-night art event on October 4th, 2008. The installation’s name “Stereoscope” reflects the special nature of the building with its two curved, opposing facades effectively creating a three-dimensional appearance. Not having rested in the recent years, Project Blinkenlights has developed new technology to wirelessly control the lights placed behind the 960 windows of City Hall allowing for a large scale visual concert during the night in downtown Toronto. As usual, Project Blinkenlights invites the public to be a part of the installation by opening up a variety of ways to interact with and provide content for Stereoscope. Toronto City HallToronto City HallAmong the more traditional features, everybody can play classic computer games on the facade simply by using a mobile phone. The two upper parts of each tower serve as dedicated playgrounds each offering separate telephone numbers for individual gameplay. These numbers will be published on-site beginning the week before Nuit Blanche so that people can get the information where they need it – at Nathan Philips Square in front of City Hall in Toronto. A simple animation tool and open animation data formats enable you to to create simple movies for Stereoscope – addressing one of four parts of the whole facade. Focusing on simple, low-resolution imagery, Project Blinkenlights wants to revive the spirit of the original Blinkenlights installation in Berlin that obtained its charme from the down-to-earth, barebones design of low-res imagery. New Ars Electronica Center, Linz Ars Electronica’s outstanding international reputation assures it a place in the limelight during Linz’s term as European Capital of Culture in 2009. The city is now creating an appropriate architectural setting for this starring role by expanding the Ars Electronica Center. The planning is the work of Treusch architecture, Vienna.
More than 5000m 2 of glass facade covering the new Ars Electronica Center was assembled with 1100 LED light strips (RGBW – Red, Green, Blue and White High Power LED `s) . Each of the approximately 4400 channels (RGBW 4 Channel light bar) is individually adressable and adjustable between 0-100%. Imagery from patterns to homogeneous color surfaces are possible. The result is a holistic entity, a striking highlight of the Linz cityscape, and the architectural counterpart of the Lentos Museum of Modern Art on the opposite bank of the Danube. Overall, this project uses about 40 000 high power LEDs, 1100 pcs LED drivers, about 20km cable, several distributors and controls. By using the latest LED driver technology, the average electricity consumption is up to 10 kWh at night. via: AEC, , Treusch Architektur The Palm Jumeirah, Dubai This is an example of an ephemeral 3D Media Architecture only existing for a blink of time – on the occasion of the opening of the new Palm Jumeirah in Dubai; fits perfectly as a start into the new year: We wish a glamorous 2009 to all our readers and friends! The World’s Largest Timepiece: Bahnhofstrasse Christmas Lights, Zurich, A great example by Gramazio & Kohler how christmas lights could look in future; Here’s a short description by the architects themselves: ” ‘Distinctive, generous, unique’—these were some of the qualities expected of the Christmas illuminations in Zurich’s internationally renowned shopping street. ….We designed a continuous band of lights, 1.1 km long, using 275 tubes of light, which we called “The World’s Largest Timepiece”.
View at Paradeplatz; Photo by Roman Keller Light Tubes The 7 m high, round tubes had to provide light evenly in all directions, and be able to withstand heavy windloads despite being light in weight. We therefore had to find a rigid, robust casing material that would also transmit light. Eventually we chose wound glass fibre technology: a special manufacturing process in which glass fibres are soaked in resin and spun around a mandrel. We were fascinated by the additive logic of this process. The winder controls the stacking of the fibres via two computer-coordinated movements. A sliding carriage drives the glass fibres back and forth along the spinning mandrel, creating an extremely stable multi-layered tube. The stacking winder and the number of tiers and overlappings determine the rod’s flexural rigidity and torsional stiffness, as well as its transmission of light. … The final tube was 7 m long and 15 cm in diameter, but its shell was only 2 mm thick; including the lighting and control technology, it weighed just under 23 kg. Intense engagement with the computer-operated production process allowed us to integrate two normally incongruent requirements into a single material, thus using wound glass fibres for lighting on this scale for the first time. Xmas Generator video by scharzpictures.com Rundle Lantern, Adelaide
Rundle Lantern will be launched at 7.30pm Friday 24 October! Be there as it lights up Adelaide for the first time. Join the celebration with music, entertainment and more. Constructed around the face of the Rundle Street U-Park, the Rundle Lantern is a digital canvas that uses computer controlled LEDs to illuminate 748 square panels to deliver a unique platform for art. Its purpose is to enrich, invigorate and enliven the intersection of Rundle Street and Pulteney Street.
At 1066 square metres, the Rundle Lantern can be programmed to display simple numbers, letters and geometric shapes as well as an infinite array of lights, colour, morphing designs and patterns. Rundle Lantern Alternate ColourIllumination is through 17,952 light emitting diodes (LED) configured as 5.984 of each colour – red, green and blue through 1496 units that each contain 12 clusters of red, green and blue LED’s. The LED’s can create any configuration of 16 million colours which are reflected upwards onto 748 aluminium panels of 1.1 m x 1 m.
The Rundle Lantern was designed by Fusion, an Adelaide-based agency for the digital age following a competitive design tender by the Adelaide City Council’s Urban Design team. The Rundle Lantern was launched at the end of October and operates each night from dusk to midnight, with hours extended for special events. via: Fusion, cityofadelaide Media Facades Exhibition Berlin 2008 The documentation of our Media Facades Exhibition Berlin 2008 is now available.
Media augmented architectural surfaces – HFT Stuttgart
The ‘Medien und Raum’ Studio is a master course subject taught by Dr. Haeusler at the HfT Stuttgart – Hochschule für Technik. The Studio is part of a new research focus at the university on media architecture and interactive architecture. ‘Medien und Raum’ focused on the architectural integration of state of the art media technology. The two projects presented ‘Concrete LED Fa?ade’ by Angela Renz and Dominik Kommerell and ‘Lochblech LED Fa?ade’ by Ute Schweinle, Melek Güler and Andrea Fackler are prototypes resulting from this studio. Both projects were conducted as scientific research projects where conditions and materials were tested and documented and the prototypes are a result of the research.
Can a deactivated media fa?ade transform back to an architectural surface or to ask the question the other way around can an architectural surface temporarily become a media fa?ade? Both presented projects offer a possible answer to the question – the architectural surface is, when activated, a media fa?ade that can display media content without having a persistent urge for new media contents. This urge is the result of media technology that exists as an added element onto architectural surfaces that when deactivating the technology unmasks the assembling of parts. Through an amalgam of architectural surface and technology one can create a media augmented element that is able to transform either to a space-defining element or a message-delivering vehicle. Links: Medienraum, Mevaco GmbH, Hochschule für Technik – Stuttgart This project has been shown at the Media Facades Exhbition Berlin 2008 and was published in the Exhibition Companion |
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