The documentation of our Media Facades Exhibition Berlin 2008 is now available.
The Exhibition takes place at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (German Center for Architecture)
October 16 – December 12 2008 and was curated by Gernot Tscherteu
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Exhibition Companion (Catalogue)

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Download the MEDIA FACADES EXHIBITION COMPANION (7 mb)
including all exhibited projects and an extensive introductory text by the curator Gernot Tscherteu about MEDIA FACADES: FUNDAMENTAL TERMS AND CONCEPTS.

for more info [click here].

The ‘Medien und Raum’ Studio is a master course subject taught by Dr. Haeusler at the HfT Stuttgart – Hochschule für Technik. The Studio is part of a new research focus at the university on media architecture and interactive architecture. ‘Medien und Raum’ focused on the architectural integration of state of the art media technology. The two projects presented ‘Concrete LED Façade’ by Angela Renz and Dominik Kommerell and ‘Lochblech LED Façade’ by Ute Schweinle, Melek Güler and Andrea Fackler are prototypes resulting from this studio. Both projects were conducted as scientific research projects where conditions and materials were tested and documented and the prototypes are a result of the research.

Can a deactivated media façade transform back to an architectural surface or to ask the question the other way around can an architectural surface temporarily become a media façade? Both presented projects offer a possible answer to the question – the architectural surface is, when activated, a media façade that can display media content without having a persistent urge for new media contents. This urge is the result of media technology that exists as an added element onto architectural surfaces that when deactivating the technology unmasks the assembling of parts. Through an amalgam of architectural surface and technology one can create a media augmented element that is able to transform either to a space-defining element or a message-delivering vehicle.

Links: Medienraum, Mevaco GmbH, Hochschule für Technik – Stuttgart

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).

The O2 World Arena is located on 50 acres along the Spree River near the Berlin Wall East Side Gallery in the heart of Berlin, Germany. The arena seats approximately 17,000 people. Grand opening ceremonies were Sept. 10, 2008. The first event, a Metallica album release party, was Sept. 12, 2008.

- The south end of the arena features a curved glass facade that overlooks a plaza area. The plaza area leads to a remnant of the Berlin wall and the Spree River approximately 225 yards (210 meters) away.
- The facade is approximately 380 feet (116 meters) long by 40 feet (12 meters) tall.
- The facade is built on a 104-degree curve with an average radius of 213 feet (65 meters).
- There are 117 vertical mullions spaced slightly more than 3 feet (1 meter) horizontally across the facade.
- Each mullion is angled toward the ground from the top by 9 degrees.
- In conjunction with the building’s architects, LightWild custom designed a mullion cap that seamlessly integrates into the building’s architecture and also includes LightWild Pixels, a color-controlled architectural LED lighting source.
- Each mullion has 60 Pixels spaced about 8 inches (.2 meters) vertically.
- In all, there are 7,020 LightWild Pixels installed in the vertical mullions on the facade of the arena. Each Pixel includes 40 individual LEDs, meaning 280,800 LEDs are in use on the facade.
- The LightWild Pixels on the facade display colorful moving graphics and video effects that are created with the popular Adobe Flash software application.
- Data is communicated from the arena control room to the facade through a LightWild-designed network that transmits DMX signals over Ethernet.

via: www.lightwild.com