Galaxia Electronics’ s latest symbolic Media Façade Solution has been unveiled at Han River in Seoul.
Three man-made islands lightening up Han River are integrated among one another utilizing 1500 LGP (Lighting Glass Panel)
Galaxia Electronics adopted customized optical technology to block light intrusion affecting outward view from inside.

Three islands featuring convention hall, entertainment hall, restaurants, and shopping mall is now perceived as one of

Floating Island from Galaxia Electronics on Vimeo.

the most attractive sites in Korea along with floating stage called “Media Art Gallery” that has elevated the night scenery to a next level.

Website of Galaxia electronics : www.galaxialed.com
Website of Floating island : www.floatingisland.com
More Information: dhshin@galaxia.co.kr

Jason Bruges Studio’s latest artwork has been unveiled at Sunderland Station. The 144m long piece presents a virtual platform filled with travellers within a glass block wall. The 3m tall glass block wall in the underground train station has been turned into a large low-resolution video matrix (755×15 pixels). Behind the wall is a disused platform, which long ago used to see passengers waiting for trains. Now the tracks are long gone and the old platform is hidden from view., we have created ghostly characters that appear behind the glass wall opposite passengers waiting for the trains.

by: Jason Bruges Studio

The moon project was designed for the Xiamen City Park,
during the Xiamen Expo.

The steel structure is coverd with glued glass an has a diameter of 36 meters and a total surface of 1788 M2

The design idea originated from the orbit wich is drawn by the moon while circling around earth. Led´s used were deliverd by AHL – in total 80,000pcs of the S-9 type has been used.

By/via: ledahl.net

Light sails are used as guiding symbols for the state exhibition around the Millstaetter Lake, Austria. The objects are abstract sails, as a “light-space-installation”. The objects are orientated to the lake. The lake Millstaetter Lake is getting a tribune out of water, because the energy of the lake is trapped, converted and reflected as light. So the sails are working as a transmitter and receiver at the same time. The illumination of the light sails itself is reacting to the surrounding – the more people approaching the sails the more vibrate light. The illumination is also reacting to the temperature – they are constantly changing their color. The colder the temperature the warmer the color of light is getting and inverse. In the dawn the integrated moving heads start their show. They elevate from water surface of the lake. The cone of lights raise and drop, they pulsate, they are reflected by the water. They connect and show the way from one light sail to another one.

via: nait5.com
by: soehnepartner.com

Sea Organ and Greeting to the Sun are two public installations by architect Nikola Bašic on the coastline of Zadar, Croatia. Sea Organ consists of 35 musically tuned whistle openings facing the sea. The moving tides push air through the tubes and plays a random harmonic melody, augmenting the sound of the sea and emphasising the ambient sounds of the coast. Greeting to the Sun has sensors which store energy for a light show at night.

via: nait5.com, tzzadar.hr
by: Nikola Bašic

The Tampa Museum of Art commissioned digital light artist Leo Villareal to design an installation for the façade of the new museum. The exterior of the new facility features programmable light emitting diodes (LEDs), 45 feet high and 300 feet long, embedded within two-layers of perforated aluminum panels. In daylight, the museum’s façade creates a moiré-like pattern, and in darkness Villareal’s LED installation will illuminate downtown Tampa.

“As we finalized the plans for our new building, we became more committed to the incorporation of a permanent public art component as part of the building,” Todd D. Smith, the museum’s executive director recently commented. “LED lights were always a part of the overall design of the museum’s architect Stanley Saitowitz. As our museum opens its doors, it was vitally important that we make a statement about the nature of what visitors can expect from the museum experience.” “Leo is one of the pioneers in utilizing light media within the context of architecture. We wanted a bold pronouncement that one of the new directions for our collection and exhibition offerings will be in the arena of new media, and we could not think of a more appropriate artist to launch our commitment to this area than Leo Villareal.” “I am inspired by the building’s clean, minimal expanse,” said Leo Villareal. “The Tampa Museum of Art is ideally situated in a dynamic city surrounded by beautiful parks, the riverfront and university. “Sky (Tampa)” will reflect the life and activity around it, functioning as a mirror to a diverse audience.”

by: leo villareal
via: karmatrendz.wordpress.com, tampamuseum.org

The Siemens Building Technologies Division headquarters’ car park is a bright new addition to the attractiveness of Zug, Switzerland, and an innovative architectural highlight for the city. To meet the requirements set by Siemens, lighting designer HEFTI.HESS.MARTIGNONI partnered with Traxon Technologies and e:cue due to its numerous international project references in this field, as well as professional expertise. To enhance the parking structure’s façade, 1,230 customized Traxon Liner XB RGB fixtures were installed on the building’s exterior. Equipped with 25,900 high-power LEDs, the individually controllable fixtures of standard and customized lengths perfectly adapted to this challenging surface, accentuating the car park’s architectural design. Despite the large number of LEDs, the operating expenses are low and the lighting solution is environmentally friendly, thus serving as a symbol of sustainable development and renewable energies. All lighting fixtures are controlled by an e:cue lighting control system consisting of four Butler, two Lighting Control Server (LCS1), and the Lighting Application Suite.

by/via: ecue.de, traxontechnologies.com

Jeddah’s Corniche won’t ever be the same after final completion of the King’s Road Tower and its breath-taking cutting-edge LED MediaFacade. Being the largest in the Middle East, with almost 10.000 sqm of custom-made video system, it also uses the DMF 2.0 technology: the latest and trendiest innovation for full integration into the Facade.

The Biggest LED MediaFacade in the Middle East

King’s Road Tower has been designed to become a flagship for Jeddah by using the latest innovations and materials within its Architectural Concept. Citiled accepted the challenge and developed a large scale custom-made MediaFacade managing three different cutting-edge technologies: lighting, video and DMF 2.0, that would be totally integrated into the building facade. Being the highest tower in Jeddah, it is conveniently located on the Corniche, thus visible from far away both from the main road, the sea and even up in the air! King’s Road Tower’s MediaFacade represents a truly amazing achievement for all architectural, technical, engineering, lighting design, conceptual, out-of-home media and urban purposes.

Citiled

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

Rogier van der  Heide:

“The past six years, between architects UNStudio and myself a close collaboration has been established. UNStudio is an architecture office with great appreciation of light present in all of their work. The unique 51.3m high concave façade has got a lighting and product design conceived in a joint design process between the architects, my team at Arup and Alliance Optotek (AOP), the local lighting manufacturer. Using workshops and brainstorm sessions, the team developed a textured façade skin responding to the environment by reflecting daylight and showing its 3D nature at night with integrated lighting.”

via:rogiervanderheide.com, www.arup.com, unstudio.com
photos: Christian Richters