Luxury Floating Hotel in the Air

Worldwide Aeros Corporation are co-developing with WATG a flying Hotel and speculate the behemoth cruise liner complete with staterooms, restaurants, shops, etc. will be built by 2010. Testing will begin in 18 months on a smaller test version of … Read More

BioWall – Loop.pH

“ As it becomes increasingly difficult to read the signs of our natural environment in urban, built landscapes we use plants in our work as we consider them to be the most sophisticated of sensors and displays. ”

An … Read More

Easyweb – Site specific Video performances

I don’t speak french very well so I won’t attempt to translate what Easyweb say on their site. Instead I recommend you just look at this magical video .

Update – 14th March

Regine from the awesome we make … Read More

Boutique Vizique

Here are a few projects from Boutique Vizique (Hendrik Leper and Stijn Schiffeleers)

Drawplay

‘ Drawplay ‘ is an audiovisual installation that generates audio and reveals video according to your drawing on a touchscreen imbedded in a soft bench. … Read More

dVitral – electrochromic glass

Heres's a speculative piece that uses the potential of electrochromic glass to produce interactive architectural facades. I've seen a few examples of this technology in privacy screens in offices and houses and I'm sure somewhere in Japan they have made … Read More

Devolution – Prosthetic Limbs and Robotic Creatures

The Australian Dance Theatre's new show will feature prosthetic limbs, large-scale ambulating robotic creatures (some of them strapped to dancers) and a kinetic set and lighting design.

Devolution is a collaboration between Australian Dance Theatre and French-Canadian robotics artist … Read More

Living Skins: Architecture as Interface – Peter Hall

Buildings communicate their function and status through a language of visual signs… What if a sign did not simply tout new movies, sodas, and celebrity babies in one-way feeds, but instead revealed something unique about the building, its occupants, or … Read More

Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture

11-12 March 2006

Oudenoord 275, Utrecht, Netherlands

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Between September and December 2005 the Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture brought together a large international group of people to think about what all this means for spatial design … Read More

Inner Force – Shu-Min Lin

Shu-Min Lin's work Inner Force applies to the practice of the wu-wei principle of Taoism , which means “action without competitive or selfish goals”.

A pool of water is projected on the floor. Participants have to compete to fill … Read More

Feel – Animi Causa

Okay so this isn't interactive but it is reconfigurable and thats enough for me. Here's the beautifully simple piece of furniture from Animi Causa called Feel. It's a grid of 120 soft balls that can be folded and arranged … Read More

Interactive Children’s Library – Interactive Spaces

Heres a project in development by InteractiveSpaces who are an interdisciplinary research center bringing together architecture, engineering, and computer science with the research mission to create new concepts for future interactive spaces. They also bring together companies and public researchers … Read More

Living Wall

Living Wall is an ambient installation collecting, recomposing and playing sonic memories. The computational processes that take place are displayed on four architectural scale LED matrices with a total number of 3000 white superflux LEDs.

The installation has … Read More

Dynamic Terrain РJanis P̦nisch

My Personal Interests within Interactive Architecture are surrounding Kinetic interaction and adaptive space so I was pleased when Janis Pönisch got in touch about his project Dynamic Terrain. Janis explains below his intentions for the installation and its relatioship with … Read More

Lightbulb – Jeff Lieberman

Here's a great piece I saw a while ago and meant to post. Jeff Lieberman has explores two phenomena, the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, and wireless power transmission. Feedback systems often levitate objects, stabilize inverted pendulums, and … Read More

Liquid Architectures

Liquid Architectures Online Discussion (March 1 – 30)

Tate Online Discussion Forums Part of a string of events throught March in London called Nodel the Tate is bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of theorists and practitioners to debate … Read More

Architecture and Sound

Tonight on the Subject of Architecture and Sound, John Bell, a lecturer at the Architectural Association London and director of transdisciplinary practice fxv.org will be moderating a discussion on resonance104.4FM .

Usman Haque , Flow Motion, and Janek Schaefer will … Read More

Hotel Habitat

I posted earlier this year the details of the Hotel Habitat building developed by Cloud9. I've just come accross some lovely more images so I thought I'd stick a few up. Further images .

“The Habitat Hotel will … Read More

BIP – Building Interactive Playgrounds

Applications for entry are currently open to participate in the second edition of BIP, an International Competition for interaction design projects for public events.

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There looking for “Real projects that can substantially and meaningfully enrich the Elettrowave … Read More