Research Articles
Fog Screen
October 25, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsFinnish technology company FogScreen Inc wins the Plasa Award for Innovation 2005 with this lovely new interface design
In this walk-through exhibit, pictures are projected onto an ultrafine vapor “screen.” The fog is dry to the touch. The FogScreen … Read More
Ambient Devices
October 21, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnPresent day computer technology, including PDA’s and cellphones, utilize only a fraction of our sensory and cognitive capabilities.
Ambient devices elegantly embed digital information into the objects and environments that surround us. These displays are in the form of … Read More
RE:MARK and The Hidden Worlds of Noise and Voice
October 20, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | One Comment2 really nice pieces that are interested in the visualisation of invisible flows of information. These two aesthetic and sensory observatories for the perception of this parallel reality have been developed by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman in collaboration with … Read More
Fun Palace – Cedric Price
October 19, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | 17 CommentsCEDRIC PRICE (1934-2003) was one of the most visionary architects of the late 20th century. Although he built very little, his lateral approach to architecture and to time-based urban interventions, has ensured that his work has an enduring influence on … Read More
See through Aluminium!
October 18, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnRemember the scene from Star Trek IV where Scotty barters the formula for transparent aluminum for a small run. It now appears that we can now add transparent aluminum to the science fact column.
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Tableportation
October 17, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnTABLEPORTATION is a local media system designed to fuse mediated and physical space, to experiment and play with social boundaries, to encourage and allow new forms of interplay between people at different tables in the café.
Video cameras monitor … Read More
InterMap
October 16, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentInterMap is a 1:1 scale model of an interactive maze. This prototype, built of hardware scraps and lumberyard detritus, is the first iteration of a childhood vision to design a human-scale navigable maze.
As the participant enters the space, … Read More
Mirrors & Lasers
October 14, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnGriffin Enright Architects assisted the artist Hiro Yamagata with the infrastructure for his laser installation.
Disco Dance Floor
October 11, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnOkay this isn’t ground breaking interactive architecture but I love the dedication.
Watch the Video and check out the Documentation of the Project
# 1,536 LEDs # 128 square feet # 4,096 colors # 30 frames/second # 20,000 hand-soldered … Read More
lightspace – Low Res Interactive hypersurfaces
October 7, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnLightspace provides interactive lighting and entertainment products to numerous industries including Nightclubs, Family Entertainment Centers, Theme Parks, Fashion Shows, Special Events, Stage Lighting & Sound, Health Clubs and Architectural Lighting & Design.
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UVA – LED Walls – Kabaret London
October 2, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsUVA are producers and designers of performance video and environmental graphics for live events. Last year they installed one of these systems into the Kabaret Club on Beak Street, Soho, London.
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Barco’s MiPix Modular LED Blocks allowing … Read More
Toyo Ito wins Royal Gold Medal
September 29, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnThe Japanese architect Toyo Ito has won this year’s Royal Gold Medal.
digital wall, detail of the exhibition ‘toyo ito architetto’, basilica palladiana, vicenza, italy
Ito is known for his aesthetic of lightweight, permeable membranes composed of fabrics, perforated … Read More
HMC MediaLab’s Hyperfabric
September 27, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnHMC MediaLab’s Adam Montandon came over to me at the end of the submerge exhibition in June and asked me about my flexible wall skin I used for my Project Reciprocal Space. A few months later to create this … Read More
Bartlett Kicks Off
September 26, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnMArch AVATAR combined with the Interactive Architecture Workshop
Many of our critical understandings are derived from second order cybernetics, especially the work of Gordon Pask, Francisco Varela and Heinz von Foerster – who was also a magician. Interactive Architecture, … Read More
Second Skin – Lutyens & Winkler
September 24, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnA project that explores the structure of mind as mirrored by emergent architecture.
Second Skin is a project that involves architecture students and professionals from around the globe to form the basis for a new emergent approach to architecture.
Kinetic Lighting – Front & the Interactive Institute
September 23, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnBetween 20-25% of the energy consumed in UK households is used by lighting. So a light that indicates how much energy is being consumed within the home at any moment seems a particularly appropriate innovation
Stockholm-based industrial designer Front … Read More
Maximilian’s Schell – Ball & Nogues
September 13, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentThe new vortex-shaped, outdoor installation by architects Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues warps the flow of space with a featherweight rendition of a celestial black hole; “the deadliest force in the Universe.” Hovering over M&A’s courtyard “Maximilian’s Schell” is … Read More
texone – tree
September 12, 2005 | Ruairi GlynnBit of an old project but I fell upon it today and thought I’d have a play.
Here’s one of Texone’s projects tree, thought I’d stick interactivearchitecture.org into it and see what it creates. Well it produced a very … Read More
Contiguity
Contiguity, by Pin (Tian) Liu, seeks to use his body as a site of intervention in the maelstrom that is modern technological development. In addition, interrogating its often purported utopi...
