pie-in-the-sky or the future of wireless networks?

Why put up costly cell-phone towers in thinly populated areas, when a few balloons would do? In North Dakota, former Gov. Ed Schafer is backing a plan to loft wireless network repeaters on balloons high above the state to fill … Read More

Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials That Redefine Our Physical Environment

If your building interactive architecture, its obviously not just about understanding digital technology, you have to have an understanding of all the materials in construction that would lend themselves to interactive spaces. I’ve just got hold of this book … Read More

MIT Smart Cities Group, Greden & Arbona – Fab Tree Hab

So whats the interactive architecture in this? Well its the slowest form of interaction I’ve posted so far but the process of pleaching gives the patient house builder the ability to share with the tree the role of architect … Read More

Theo Jansen’s – Evolving Species

Video one of Theo’s Creatures Walking

Theo Jansen spoke at the Bartlett School of Architecture last week leaving his audience of students and professors all gasping for air with excitement, full of new ideas about the potential of even … Read More

Simplicity Project – Interview with John Maeda

Sascha Pohflepp, a Digital Arist, blogger for plugimi and wmmna and writer for de:bug magazine, has recently interviewed John Maeda about the Simplicity project. If you don’t already know of John Maeda then I highly recommend you get to know … Read More

Smart Materials 1 – Definition

Last night I was at the smart materials event at the Dana Center in Londons Science Museum where a number of interesting materials that could be potentially applied to interactive architecture. I personally didn’t find anything that was mindblowingly new … Read More

Levitating and Nanotube Lifts

Toshiba Elevator and Building Systems Corp have developed the world’s first elevators controlled by magnetic levitation available as early as 2008.Using maglev technology capable of suspending objects in mid-air through the combination of magnetic attraction and repulsion they promise quieter … Read More

NOX – Lars Spuybroek – Whispering Garden – Rotterdam

Okay apologies for irrelevant last post here’s one about interactive architecture strangely enough. NOX run by Lars Spuybroek do some fantastic work and have made a number of interactive buildings and installations over the past few years including Son-O-House and … Read More

LED light mesh facade – James Clar & Cloud9

James Clar of LED Voxel fame is currently working on an architecture model for the Cloud9’s ‘Habitat Hotel’. “The Habitat Hotel will be developed in the Barcelona area. It is a hotel with a light mesh that wraps the … Read More

Transforming Digital Architecture from Virtual to Neuro – Brian Massumi

Above is the Blur Building by Diller + Scofido whirling above Lake Neuchatel , Switzerland and Below is an interesting interview of Brian Massumi by Thomas Markussen.

Thomas Markussen

A few years ago, architects were almost obsessed with … Read More

America’s Other Space Program

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I’ve been looking at using dirigibles for an interactive installation I’m thinking about building but more about that hopefully in the future. I found this while I was looking for some meteorological balloons. JP Aerospace is a volunteer-based … Read More

Update on Interactive Tables

Regine from wmmna, and Nicolas Nova from pasta and vinegar have put together an excellent list of interactive tables.

also see Regine’s new post of a ‘Conversation table’, a project looking at the social dynamics that take place at tables … Read More

Philips – Entertaible

Philips have made the Entertaible which is a 30” LCD touchscreen table that has been developed for social gaming applications for people in places like bars and restaurants, and perhaps one day in the home. It also has built … Read More

Greyworld

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Greyworld are a group of london based artists who have produced a number of beautiful and subtle pieces of interactive architecture. Above is their piece The Source, installed in the main atrium of the new London Stock Exchange … Read More

Singing bridges

“Singing bridges” by Australian Jodi Rose is a sonic sculpture, playing the cables of stay-cabled and suspension bridges as musical instruments.

An urban sound-scape that reflects the physical and metaphoric structure of the telecommunications network, with its fibre-optic … Read More

LonelyHome – Tobi Schneidler

A spin off from the Remote Home project another project by Interactive Architect Tobi Schneidler called Lonely Bench. Part of their LonelyHome project.

A ‘self conscious’ piece of furniture reluctant to its use. The sensors for this version … Read More

Interactive Fountain РUlrich Westerfr̦lke

A delicate piece of interactive architecture from a Ulrich Westerfrölke built in 1997 for Luitpold Square. The boundaries of the Square are defined by the 50 meter long facades of the Schloss Gallery and the Schloss with its newly … Read More

AutoGene – Dancing Umbrellas

See Video A Bit slow to start but gets better as it goes on

AutoGene A Choreographed kinetic sculpture by Peter William Holden using umbrellas automated like pistons producing a charming performance to Gene Kelly Classic, ‘Singing in the … Read More