The Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron designed the Allianz Arena with its unique diamond-shaped illuminated outer facade, chancing between red, blue and white. More than 25,000 long-life fluorescent tubes enable the impressive illumination of the Allianz Arena.
The Allianz Arena logos are mounted on the north and south side of the arena. In a length of 39.83 meters and an absolute height of 5.18 meters, the twelve in blue and white lighted Allianz Arena letters are Europe’s biggest illuminated promotional lettering. The fascinating appearance turns the Allianz Arena into Europe’s state of the art stadium.
This project has been shown at the Media Facades Exhbition Berlin 2008 and was published in the Exhibition Companion
(download the Catalogue Pdf – 7 Mb).
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Posted: October 12, 2007 at 1:45 pm by Wolfgang Leeb
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Posted: September 27, 2007 at 8:15 am by Gernot Tscherteu
spectr|a|um offers a night with audiovisual performances and visual art on the 145 m high Dexia Tower, from which 4200 windows will be enlightened by internationally renowned musicians and artists, taking place on Place Rogier’s urban lounge and Dexia Tower.
Line-up:
Reprojected is currently on display on the “Seven Screens” in Munich, an installation consisting of seven double-sided state-of-the-art LED-steles, each one of them measuring six metres in height. It transfers and reworks the actual spatial situation of the piece’s site.
In contrast to common filmic language, “reprojected” takes a distanced point of view, which exclusively focusses on the shadows of computer-simulated people. They attain visibility only by means of a light source, which is moving in virtual space between and across the steles.
The video projected onto the “Seven screens” plays with the perception of the space between and introduces a distance between the depicted events and the installation.
On behalf of the team of organisers I’d like to thank you for having spent two great days with us. It was mainly your contributions, questions and comments that made it a success.
In the next days and week we want to provide more documentation material of the conference and of course we keep on posting projects and news in the field of Media Architecture.
There have been a lot of new projects in the presentations but also during the coffee brakes, that are waiting for being referenced here.
If you have the impression that a certain project is missing here please send me an e-mail: gt[at]realitylab.at or use the “Suggest a project” button.
I hope you have enjoyed the conference,
Let’s keep in touch,
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Posted: September 14, 2007 at 9:42 am by Gernot Tscherteu
On 11th and 12th September Media Architecture 2007 will take place at Central Saint Martins Innovation in central London. Organised by Media Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to address the increasing integration of new display technologies for building construction. The huge impact of this development for building design and the urban environment will be explored from both theoretical and practical implementation perspectives by leaders in the field. The conference takes place at the same and is co-organised with PLASA, the international lighting exhibition at Earls Court, London.
Speakers & curators include:
Joachim Sauter, Bart Lootsma, Ludger Hovestadt, Realities United, Andrew Shoben, Kari Jormakka, David Cunningham, Mark Dorrian, Hermann Eisenköck, Patricia Austin, Tim Pritlove, Peter Cornwell, Kathrin Kur, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Oliver Schürer, Mirjam Struppek, Jim Thrower, Gernot Tscherteu
Illumininated cubes, visuals, electronic Beats: Three components of which the new open air club Kubik consists. Already from a distance the bright installation can be seen, located near the east station. It is based on the concept „Big tank“ for which dozens of conventional 1000 litre water tanks have been arranged to a temporary installation.
Besides the spatial element the concept from modulorbeat provides the tanks in each case with a illuminant. In addition, the water tanks shine thereby for the visitors of the club, but also fulfill a other purpose: Different VJs will program the tanks visually on the weekends at the beginning of dawn.
The lamps in the tanks are individually controllable and can be served thereby like an oversize video wall. Kubik is organized of Balestra Berlin, which invite DJs from all over Europe in order to supplement the visual plays of the BigTanks by electronic Beats.
The Bayer Tower in Leverkusen is not gona be demolished, but will resplend in new light – not any more as an office building, but as an ultramodern media facade. The Bayer AG plans the transformation of the former company center into a far away visible media sculpture and wants thereby to create a up-to-date visualization of Bayer at the head office of the enterprise. The 122 meters high office tower will be used by Bayer as an impressive communication instrument. The completion of the new media facade is intended for spring 2009.
The beginning of the reconstruction is planned for June of this year. The building at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee will be striped down to the stealing and the floor structures. Afterwards a transparent and weather-resistant high-grade steel fabric will coat the building over a surface of 17,500 square meters. Approximately 3.5 million LED lights are woven into the lattice and can display moving pictures and light shows
Most modern technology permits also – independently of the time of day – the representation of two approx. 40 times 40 to meters large representations of the Bayer cross on the east and west front of the building. Thus the tower becomes an impressive indication of the region and will be far away visible sign.
WA is a site-specific video installation created for Knoll International by Gabriel Winer and Dana Karwas. Large-scale architectural projections turn the existing seventeenth century facade into a drive-by cinema and pedestrian spectacle. Playing with a unique two-screen format, the movie re-imagines the story of the company’s founders, how they discovered a minimalist approach to design, and came together to create the modernist symbol that Knoll is today.
The two videos are synchronized to play with, and against, each other, or as a single vertical image, creating a captivating dialogue between the characters on screen, the architecture of the building, the street, and the viewers. State-of-the-art projection material is used to implant the images onto the skin of the building and live editing software (developed by WIKA) remixes certain scenes, creating a fresh version of the movie each time it plays. These various elements come together to tell the story of Knoll the way it should be told, through time and urban scale.
NOVA, a project from the 150-Jahr-Jubilee of the ETH Zurich, is that world-wide first three-dimensional, bivalent color display. The Six tons heavy lightobject can not only display abstract visualizations, but also photographic and cinematic picture sequences. It will hang three years in the Zurich station hall.
NOVA is a right parallelepiped with a surface area of five times five meters and a height of a meter. 25000 individually addressable light balls can light up in more than 16 million colors. Common are two-dimensional displays, which are already present in the main station. Three-dimensional structures with large depth of shade and the characteristic, as two-dimensional displays to likewise function (bivalent displays so mentioned), are still unknown. This three-dimensional structure was selected, because under any circumstances a further wall-like structure in the main station should not be installed. The pictures shown on the display are renewed with a frequency by 25 cycles per second, i.e., dynamic procedures can be shown.
The idea for the object comes from Horao GmbH, a future spin off of the ETH Zurich. The development of the technical overall system as well as the hardware comes from the ETH close Supercomputing System AG, and the software was developed at the computer Graphics Laboratory of the ETH Zurich. Research results from 17 different institutes flowed meanwhile into the project, and the development still continues.
Thanks to Oliver Schürer for the hint!
More Information via: horao.biz
This project has been shown at the Media Facades Exhbition Berlin 2008 and was published in the Exhibition Companion
(download the Catalogue Pdf – 7 Mb).
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Posted: May 14, 2007 at 10:09 am by Wolfgang Leeb
