Peter Anders – Cyberspace Interview

Peter Anders has been involved with work at the Institute of Digital Art and Technology at Plymouth University, in particular Arch-OS and discussing its potential. Here’s an interview discussing the similarity of imaginary or virtual space and physical space.

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Interactive Architecture – Only way is Up

Here’s a nice quote from Column Network about the growth of Interactive Architecture.

“In the next few years, emerging practices in interactive architecture are set to transform the built environment. “Smart” design was once regarded as the preserve of museum … Read More

Installation – MIT

video

Installation is a system designed by Simon Greenwold at the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab, consisting of a viewing window and a stylus with which users can create virtual forms and install them permanently into … Read More

Submerge Awards

All the Exhibition Photos

Submerge Graduate Exhibition was a huge success for myself and my fellow MediaLab Arts Colleagues with some of the class of 2005 winning as awesome combined 75% of the awards.

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Contour Crafting

For thousands of years building houses has been a slow process but Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California has come up with a radical solution. One that if it works properly will revolutionize architecture. This has … Read More

Morphosis

Very few Architecture Firms create interesting websites but Morphosis have done just that and with a name like their’s you’d expect strong digital content. Check it out

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Collaborative Artefacts Interactive Furniture

Interactive Furniture is as important as Interactive Architecture in my book so this conference that my good friend Chris O’Shea was taking part in at Château-d’Oex ,a lovely Swiss village near Geneva is of interest to me. Check out the … Read More

Interactive Bubble Wall

Video of Installation

The multi-user installation ‘bubbles’ enables participants to interact with the realtime simulation of floating bubbles. By entering the light beam of the data projector, the participant casts a shadow onto the projection screen. the screen area is … Read More

Interactive Surfaces from loop.pH

loop.pH creates and develops new and reactive surfaces and objects, conducts an extensive range of research activities and collaborates with industry and multi-disciplinary groups.

loop.pH research explores electronically responsive and light emitting surfaces as a form of visual communication in … Read More

And more Rotating Spaces

Snail Shell System The SNAIL SHELL SYSTEM is a low cost system that enables persons to move around, change their whereabouts and live in various environments. One unit supplies space for one person. It is mobile both on land and … Read More

TurnOn – AWG

Since 2001, the Austrian architecture and design firm AllesWirdGut (“everything will go well,” in German) has sought to explore less conventional ideas of housing. Invited to participate in a young-designer’s exhibition on living space in Vienna, the five-person firm … Read More

Jason Bruges Studio

Puerta America Hotel.

Jason Bruges founded Jason Bruges Studio in 2001 to create interactive installations for a diverse range of clients. Working in collaboration with architect, Kathryn Findlay, the interactive installations are the only integrated artworks created for the … Read More

“Stereoscopic” Television

A bit of old school technology

Almost 77 years after the first demo of stereo TV in 1928 by John Baird,

there’s evidence of a strong resurgence of interest and research in immersive TV:

“The Japanese Government is … Read More

Cybrid Landscape, Chris O’Shea

Here’s a lovely little Piece by Chris O’Shea using the Arch-OS system of Portland Square Building at Plymouth University.

Using the buildings huge array of sensors various researchers are exploring future concepts for inteligent buildings, Chris O’Shea has used … Read More

SOFTROOM, Hot Links

Virtual and Physical Architects SOFTROOM are one of the few architecture firms to really embrace the potential of digital technology. Here’s a project they did for BBC building virtual datascapes.

3D Web Search Engines use depth and scale to … Read More

BIX, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria

The Bix Website

In 2003 Peter Cook (co-founder of Archigram) and Colin Fourner (Professor of the Bartlett School of Architecture) used a low-res application of programmable skin technology called BIX to bring to life the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria … Read More

Tobi Schneidler, RemoteHome

What I most like about the whole RemoteHome project is that it is a very personal kinetic tangible experience. I love the idea that sitting on furniture in one country could influence the shape of furniture in another. Tobi Schneidler … Read More

Zaha Hadid, Tokyo Guggenheim

The proposal by Zaha Hadid Architects offers a big, single space wrapped by a snakeskin like envelope, which is animated by a large integrated media-screen. The quality of the skin proposed has a snakeskin-like pixillation that allows the formally … Read More