Ferrofluid Sculptures by Sachiko Kodama

Ferrofluid is a very interesting material originally developed by NASA it has now found itself been used for a whole range of devices including dampers for controlling and stabilizing large building that move around in the wind. Whats also amazing … Read More

Architecturally Compliant Christmas

Ho Ho Ho

Merry Christmas

Just a thought. Is your Christmas Architecturally Compliant with all building regs?

Check out the full Specs

Also check out this hilarious revision of the specs from Gravestmor

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Reciprocal Space – Europrix Top Talent Award Quality Seal

This Years Europrix Jury has awarded 20 Europrix Top Talent Award Quality Seals to student projects from all over Europe. Heres the full list.

I’m very pleased to say that my own kinetic interactive architecture research called Reciprocal Space … Read More

Kinecity – Comment Wall

Comment Wall by Kinecity (Marek Walczak, Jakub Segen and Michael McAllister) is a wall where people can write their thoughts directly onto a wall using their fingers. The camera-recognition system remembers their text and displays it over time. The … Read More

Interactive Architecture interviewed by HMC MediaLab

HMC Medialab do great work but they also have been encouraging experimentation between the arts, science and technology disciplines particularily in the West of England. Check out their projects Lacuna, Hyperfabric, and their multi-award winning project Eyeborg

Recently Adam Montandon … Read More

Karl Schroeder, “Cyberspace, R.I.P.”

Great Quote I thought I’d put on since I was recently asked what the relationship between cyberspace and interactive architecture is.

Cyberspace, RIP by Karl Schroeder from Future Now

“It’s this overlay of the virtual over the real that makes … Read More

Peter Marino – Tokyo – Chanel

With a 10-floor palace of glass at the ritziest of all Tokyo addresses, Chanel launched its biggest boutique in the world. The store opened December 4, 2004. This lavish building in the Ginza district features a concert hall, a … Read More

Primal Graphics – Jim Campbell

This is an Installation that was at Battery Park in New York a while ago by Jim Campbell whose website has dozens of his installation works that play with light, movement and ideas about memory.

“In Primal Graphics, a … Read More

Interactive Facades by Edigma

Interactive Facades are appearing all over the place at the moment and here’s a product that is selling it to the commercial market to entice shoppers in through inital interactive events that can occur inside or remotely from the architecture.

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Adam Greenfield on Ubiquitous Computing

Ubiquitous Computing integrates computation into the environment, rather than having computers which are distinct objects. An major aspect of interactive architecture “Ubicomp” is an essential part of embedding architecture with digital systems.

Here’s an English translation of an interview recently … Read More

escher like you’ve never seen it before

Okay so this isn’t interactive architecture but I love this piece of work made by Andrew Lipsom, so I thought I’d share it with you.

from gravestmor

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Paper-thin Batteries

NEC Corp. said Dec. 7 it has developed a thin, pliable battery that can be charged in about 30 seconds. The new product, 4 centimeters square and 0.3 millimeter thick, can light a light-emitting diode for about 20 minutes after … Read More

3D LED Matrix BIG and small Voxels

Cubatron

Cubatron‘s maker claims it to be the “world’s largest true 3D color graphics display” however I know from speaking to someone who specializes in interactive architectural lighting that there is a much bigger one being developed for one of … Read More

Allianz Arena – Herzog & de Meuron

Allianz Arena designed by Swiss architectural office Herzog & de Meuron for FC Bayern München and TSV 1860 München.

A cascade of colour (white, red, blue) can be projected onto the smooth lozenge-shaped curved exterior made of inflatable ETFE … Read More

RCA & Philips – Glowing Places

Glowing Places

Glowing Places is a concept from an investigation into innovative ways for people to interact with light in public spaces. The plastic seating, embedded with LED (light-emitting diode) strips and sensors, measure the presence of people … Read More

Intelligent Automatic Doors

Those Japanese have done it again. This time a door that senses the approaching shape of an object entering and opens to that shape. This new design entails strips equipped with infrared sensors that open to the approximate shape … Read More

Elementlabs – Versa TILE and Versa PIXEL

elementlabs

One of the many interactive hypersurface technology companies on the market.

Below are two of their products the Versa TILE and Versa PIXEL

Versa TILE

Video – I feel a little sorry for the kid.

How does it … Read More

The Space Between

I’ve just seen the first printed copy of this new magazine devised by Christian Kerrigan and Nick Tayler. Its strong empasis is highlighting young talented people from a whole range of artistic disciplines from London to New York to Barcelona … Read More