Inflatable
Preliminary Work in Progress Report on Project E-COllaborative generator
April 28, 2020 | Yuting Chen | One CommentIn the work of artist Ann Hamilton, The Event of a Thread, the artist used a huge white silk curtain, dozens of swings, the wind brought by the dance of the curtain, the voice of the performer reading aloud, … Read More
Shih Chieh Huang
April 13, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentInstallation artist Shih Chieh Huang transforms spaces with everyday objects. His most recent project “EX-I-09” currently on show at the Beall Center for Art + Technology focuses on exploring the unusual evolutionary adaptations undertaken by creatures that reside in … Read More
VIDA
April 23, 2008 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentHere are a number videos of installations and sculptures on the theme of artificial life which won awards at VIDA last year. Via wmmna
Mission eternity sarcophagus
Etoy.corporation launched the Mission Eternity Project in 2005, foregrounding on the … Read More
Kengo Kuma – Weak Architecture
October 9, 2007 | Ruairi Glynn | 5 Comments
In search of flexible buildings – Kengo Kuma uses the term “weak architecture”. His teahouse does not rise up from the ground as a fixed wooden construction, but unfolds as an airborne ephemeral structure. When … Read More
Burble London – Usman Haque – part 2
September 19, 2007 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsCongratulations to Usman Haque and his team on the second successful flight of his ‘Burble‘ project. Here are a few photos of the event which was held in london over the weekend.
Thanks to … Read More
Bubbles – Interactive Pneumatic Environment
October 9, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsCompleted a couple of weeks ago at the Materials & Applications research and exhibition site in Los Angeles, I have been meaning to post ‘Bubbles‘ after following its rapid development and construtction on the supporting blog that … Read More
Open Burble – Update
September 4, 2006 | Ruairi GlynnHere are some images from the first flight of Open Burble by Usman Haque
images taken by Kiat Tan
Open Burble – Usman Haque
August 30, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | 3 CommentsProject Development, visualisation & flight tests
Commissioned for the Singapore Biennale 2006, Open Burble is the most recent public art work of Usman Haque. It is a further development of his earlier well known Sky Ear project where a … Read More
Angels – Constructing Reconfigurable Space
July 5, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentI’ve finally got round to recovering interactive architecture dot org and I’m pleased to be able to get back to blogging by introducing my most recent research into Constructing Interactive Reconfigurable Space. Collaborating with Paul Burres a fellow student … Read More
Vacuum Packing – Heartbeat – Ishiwata
April 19, 2006 | Ruairi GlynnArtist Makoto Ishiwata newest piece: Vacuum Packing!: Heartbeat , a polyhedron-shaped giant capsule, vacuum packs its inhabitant from all sides in rubber and a rhythmic soundscape. Ishiwata intentions were to create a space for self-reflection and meditation. The heartbeat also … Read More
Muscle – HRG and ONL
March 27, 2006 | Ruairi GlynnOne more project from the Hyperbody Research Group . I’ve been in Amsterdam for the weekend and now on my way to Delft for the Game Set Match II conference held by the Hyperbody Research Group and ONL Architects
Luxury Floating Hotel in the Air
March 16, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | 3 CommentsWorldwide 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
Pneumatic Parliament
February 17, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsMore inflatable wonders to behold. Pneumatic Parliament by Peter Sloterdijk and Gesa Mueller von der Hagen , still at conceptual stage, a political piece of inflatable architecture where a lightweight transportable dome could be quickly installed to provide a … Read More
Flying Wind Turbines
February 9, 2006 | Ruairi GlynnIn the course of my research into making lighter-than-air interactive architecture I keep finding remarkable new applications for Dirigible technology. See the Space Lift and the Flying Radio Towers so while it may not be specifically interactive architecture, I thought … Read More
Can you help?
February 2, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentAs you may have seen there’s a tutorials page attached to the blog which I’ve had online as long as the blog has been running. I’ve been meaning to build up a tutorials section of links to other websites … Read More
Theo Jansen’s – Evolving Species
January 24, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsVideo 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
Festo – Upside Down Balloon Illusion
January 1, 2006 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentI’ve mentioned Festo a couple of times over the past few months because they are producing great new dynamic materials and components which can be applied to interactive architecture like the work the Hyperbody Research Group are doing at Delft. … Read More
Architects of Air
December 4, 2005 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsChill out zones are enjoying something of a revival at the moment, along with all architectural things one vaguely associates with the 1960’s. so it comes as no surprise to find “luminarium” by the outfit collectively know as Architects of … Read More
Sisyphus
Sisyphus is a robotic art installation that features two robots engaged in an endless cyclic mechanism. A team of small robots keep building brick arches while a giant robot pushes them down. The robo...
