The shopping mall Zeilgalerie is famous well beyond Frankfurts city limits and since its existence has formed a central part of the town centre of the city. The commission includes the comprehensive redesign of the façade and the public areas of the interior.The most significant feature of the redesign is the complexly composed façade with its dynamically programmed light orchestration. The softly pulsating light ornamentation of the media façade includes a large variety of aesthetic light images: Clear-cut geometrical patterns transform fluently into organic interplays of light and shadow; delicate linear accents alternate with striking large-scale effects. The interplay of several diversely designed façade levels makes for fascinating overlaying effects and visual depth.The interior design concept takes up the original idea of a vertical urban structure and realises it in a contemporary visual design idiom.

by/via: 3deluxe.de, leuro.com

A first glimpse from the Cheonan Galleria the latest project from UN Studio!

Tanks to Andrew Hyman for this hint!
by: unstudio.com

By combining a recently developed mobile software application with the multimedia facade of the ARS Electronica building we intend to lower participation barriers for end users when interacting with such facades.
We developed two prototypes: in the first application, users can paint interactively on the building using touch input on the mobile device. In a second application, users are able to solve a jigsaw puzzle displayed on the facade.
iRiS (Immediate Remote Interaction System) is a joint research project from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany and University of Munich, Germany.

by/via: project-iris.org,treusch.at

iart developed and realised the master plan for the façade, signage, lighting and advertising spaces of the new ‘Stücki’ shopping centre in Basel.
To accentuate the architecture of Diener & Diener, the upper part of each tower is channeled into a 15-meter high LED display. These change their appearance depending on the needs of the Mall and its shops: patterns, text messages or images appear in a 17 x 17 cm pixel pitch with differently sized vertical hiatuses. In the foyer, a wall installation with backlit boxes that serves as a platform for advertisements reacts to visitors’ movements with different light intensity. This “advertising wall” can also be used for an all-over performance, e.g. at special events. A discreet “light show” animates the wall, thus heightening visitors’ awareness of the advertising messages.

Indoors, the ceiling lighting partially illuminates the space in a structural way that serves practical as well as scenographical purposes. The entire ceiling is covered with a cylindrically shaped grid. In certain areas several cylinders have lighting elements inserted, creating either rings or circularly shaped fields of light. In all, 757 downlights and 21,297 LEDs have been installed.

by/via: iart.ch, leuro.com

Our BoxLed Installation can currently be seen at the ig architektur in Vienna, 1060 – Gumpendorfer Straße 63!

The Media Architecture Biennale Exhibition is documented in a catalogue with 140 pages. It documents all the exhibited projects with pictures and a technical appendix. Moreover it contains introductory theoretical texts by the curators.

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via: monkeylectric.com

The experience of light and lighting is multi-sensory: light does not only provide sight, but also enhances texture (that we feel), reveals shape (that we touch) and space (that we are in). Media architecture often is created using “hard” surfaces such as glass and composites, with little attention to the experience of texture and tactility. Luma Space 2010 is the result of an exploration of “soft” materials that are back lit using a pixelated LED grid.

Connected fabric

Besides its unique tactile appearance, Luma Space is first and foremost a 3-dimensional arrangement of fabric panels that connect to each other. Consistent video media mapped onto the 3-dimensional shape creates a cohesion that seems to dematerialize the physicalinstallation. Media and form make an interplay that disguises the original physical shape, with a fluid, immaterial presence as the result.

The projection of light connects the surfaces and while the spatial setup of the panels suggests a coïncidental orchestration in space, the pixelated media seems to be stronger, and provides the overarching gesture, demonstrating how the designer achieves consistency by transforming the immaterial dimension of the installation only. That way a virtual image of the object is being created: waves of light flow across the installation and connect the fabric panels with each other in ways the physical original could never do.

The video imagery used on the panels is all hand made by the artist and the student team, who worked with a scale model of the installation that was “unwrapped” and then exposed to colour changing theatre lighting operated live and in real time. By recording the dynamic lighting on video, and mapping the film onto the fabric panels, continuity of the imagery was achieved without the use of any digital post production techniques.

Concept and Design: Rogier van der Heide with students of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Lighting Control Software: Color Kinetics control software

Supported by: Philips

Technology: Fabric Panels with full colour LED light sources behind

The lights and images become part of the body of the surface they inhabit. Does the light mold itself to the architectural forms or do the structures themselves arch into the light? An organic relationship, the urban environment is subtly activated to engage both employees and passersby. Moment Factory was invited by PHA Lighting Group to create an LCD media façade to serve as a continuous visual animation for their iconic location. Integrated into the architecture, the media façade creates an impression of the building as a living organism. The technology is hidden – it is the experience that engages the public. A framework of 5000 pixel RGB LED screens was built on the building’s façade. To avoid use of a matrix, the units are laid out in a quincunx form to make an asymmetrical whole. A prismatic Lexan used for projection warps the pixels to create an impression of 3D.

via/from: momentfactory.com

The City of Dreams is a mega project realised by StandardVision in Macau – China. The whole light installation ist stretching like a giant canvas over four different buildings. Adrian Velicescu of StandardVision:” It´s hard enough to distribute the data to a large screen in a building, but when you start looking at multiple towers that are 500 meters away from each other, it became apparent that we needed to combine a number of new technologies in order to pull it off.”

from / via: standardvision.tv
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