Responsive Architecture: Archive. Responsive Architecture. Responsive Architecture. Title: WX Category: #materialbehaviour #programmable material Author: Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo, Christian Ervin, and Krista Palen, Harvard Graduate School of Design Year: 2013 Url: Description : WX is a numerically-controlled wax sculpture machine. It takes advantage of the surprising effects produced when hot wax and water combine to create emergent, thin-shelled wax forms. Exhaustive material research with various types of wax and water mixtures at controlled temperatures and rates of mixing gave our team tremendous insight into the behavioral effects of these materials as they interact. The material behavior is dependent on the relative temperatures of the wax and the water. Additionally, the rate of descent of the tray lowering the wax sample into the water affects the resulting geometry: a slow rate of descent allows for the wax to disperse along the surface of the water, creating wider shapes, and a fast rate of descent makes for more narrow shapes.
Category: Interactive. Really interesting projection concepts by NuFormer Digital Media in the Netherlands. NuFormer Digital Media develops high-skill 3D video mapping projections. These 3D projections will be custom-made to fit any specific building and will be exposed by a battery of powerful projectors. More on their website. Read full article » No Comments » September 23rd, 2009 in Architecture, Augmented Reality, Cognitive, Control, Gesture, Interactive, Interfaces, Spatial, Tangible, Touch by miles Really interesting augmented reality glasses concept by Nokia. 1 Comment » “Disturb Me” is an interactive installation between human and his environment. No Comments » Nearness by Timo Arnell looks at nearness and interactive technology to create a series of events links by proximity.
No Comments » Interesting take on building environments out of one material. No Comments » Great reel showing the student work from Robotic Ecologies Seminar 2008 taught by Jason Johnson. No Comments » Read full article » No Comments » Interactive Architecture dot Org. Kinetic architecture (1/3) « VANGUARQ. Kinetic architecture (1/3) fLUX, Binary Waves – Lab[au] Another great project by LAb[au], “fLUX binary waves” is an urban and cybernetic installation based on the measuring of infrastructural ( passengers, cars…) and communicational ( electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones, radio…) flows and their transposition into luminous, sonic and kinetic rules.
This relation between the installation and the urban activity happens in real time and sets each person as an element of the installation, as a centre of the public realm. The installation fLUX, binary waves is constituted by a network of 32 rotating and luminous panels of 3 meter-high and 60 centimetres wide, placed every 3 meters to form a kinetic wall. The panels rotate around their vertical axis, and have a black reflective surface on one side, the other being plain mat white. Shih Chieh Huang Installation artist Shih Chieh Huang transforms spaces with everyday objects. The exhibition is on till June 6th 2009 Spinning Streetlights.
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