Some very early form of a mobile (!) mediafacade!

The Khumo Headquarters is located in the Jongno District of Seoul, which historically has been the central area of Seoul for hundreds of years. With major buildings in close proximity (City Hall, Deoksugung palace, the Korean President’s residence, Plaza Hotel, US Embassy), this building overlooks one of the most active areas in the entire country. There is a clear contrast between traditional and modern Korean identity, and while this is a corporate headquarter, this building has strived to balance between both worlds.

Project Facts:
69,000 LEDs
100mm horizontal pitch
200mm vertical pitch (average)
Physical LED resolution: 150 x 460
Content resolution: 230 x 919
Single LED Ribbon Surface Area: 5m x 94m
Combined LED Surface Area: 15m x 94m
Media Facade Surface Area: 24m x 94m

Architect: SAMOO Architects & Engineers
Architectural Lighting Designer: Kang-Woon Kim
Products: 6,900 Versa RAYs by C&C Lightway, Inc.

via:Andrew Hyman, C&C Lightway, Inc.

Manfred from Werkzeug H, Vienna bought a led driver (a Borg 16) at the 24C3 last year. He decided to try something new – a portable deflatable 16×16 led matrix. The main construction goal was to make it real easy to assemble, lightweight and weatherproof. I think it took the team some time for the design process and a lot more time to build – but this is what finally came out!

via: Werzeug H

TARMLED SHINES BRIGHT AT COVENT GARDEN IN LONDON

“Constellation”

A work by United Visual Artists Ltd

UVA present their latest responsive installation commissioned by Covent Garden as part of their Delight Christmas campaign this year. “Constellation“ is a light-based sculpture which has been designed especially for the Covent Garden Market Halls.

TARMLED GmbH & Co. KG of Bochum, Germany supplied a total of 578, 2m long, double-sided, LED-strips, and 37 DPDUs (Data Power Distribution Units), to power the installation in the English capital that has become the talk of the town after just a few days of operation. In just 10 weeks TARMLED’s engineers developed double-sided, video-compatible LED-strips based on it’s TARMLED STRIP 25-modules that were premiered at the “PLASA 2008″ show. The LED strips were incorporated into polycarbonate tubes coated with a semitransparent reflective film, in accordance with UVA’s design. Together with 37 customised TARMLED DPDU’s, the tubes are allowed to hang elegantly in the space, as the DPDU’s allow for cable runs of maximum 20m from the fixture using a single CAT5e cable carrying data and power to each fixture. The 25mm pixel spacing of the TARMLED STRIP and UVA’s regular grid layout of the tubes allow for spectacular 3D-displays of voluminous, complex, geometric patterns and effects. The system is entirely driven by UVA’s d3 production system.

Technical details:

1156 x 2m strips of TARMLED STRIP 25
37 x TARMLED DPDUs customised for UVA
37 x Enttec Datagate
40 x Chromaflood 200
24 x SGM Palco 3
11.8km CAT5e cable
1.2km polycarbonate tube
135sqm semi-translucent mirror silver film
1.4km steel wire
92.480 LEDS
138,720 channels of DMX
1 x d3 production controller

Constellation is a 3-dimensional volumetric lighting installation. It is the first of its kind in the world and features 600 custom-made LED tubes elegantly encased in a one-way mirror film. Constellation was also individually controllable using a custom-designed control panel, giving the installation an intimate connection with the public. During the day it is a beautiful grid of chromed columns hanging elegantly in the space. At night it transforms into a 3-dimensional lighting display. Constellation was designed especially for the indoors of Covent Garden Market Halls. Launched as the flagship piece of the winter season program at Covent Garden 2008.

by/via: United Visual Artists, Tarmled