Volume - Light and Sound Sculpture
Volume is an immersive light and soung sculpture created by United Visual Artists and one point six (production company set up by Robert Del Naja [alias 3D] of Massive Attack and Neil Davidge) that reacts to presence. Interaction is based on proximity, so without any participants it lies dormant, waiting to be awoken.
Each column contains a matrix of multicolored LEDs and a speaker. UVA use custom written camera tracking software to watch people moving through the space. As this photo explains, infrared lights are used to illuminate the area, whilst a high mounted camera looks down from above. I counted around 6 different scenes, each with a distinctive style (the video and photos show a few). The sound fitted perfectly, sometimes subtle, othertimes responding to your movements past each column. The garden is fantastic location for work like this, the water puddles creating reflection, shadows around the architecture changing and sounds travelling around the space. The color gradient fades are beautiful, and the nicest part was the interlude between scenes. The lights slowly die down, then pulsate with white light and sound in anticipation for the next visitors.
photo credit: John Adrian
UVA have now posted a video, watch it here.
via: pixelsumo
LED lighting conserving dark skies
Several prominent buildings in Korea have upgraded to LED lighting. The optimal green upgrade would have been to minimize the exterior lighting or eliminate it altogether (see Dark Skies). That said, LEDs do have the green advantages of energy efficiency, durability and the ability to control light intelligently. The GS Tower (seen here) has used an array of RGB LED elements from Color Kinetics to present various images for different seasons, climates and dates, and to provide information on weather, time and different events. The Led fixtures are positioned on the frames of windows on three sides of the building, on the upper floors.
In the 63 Square building, LEDs have been used behind opaque glass panels in the canopy above the store fronts. The canopy contains 1300 high-power RGB LED elements, linked by aluminum channel bars running behind the glass.
LIG Insurance has applied LED lighting to the whole of its headquarters building in the Gangnam area of Seoul. Linear LED bars are located above each window space, and these project light onto screens that are rolled down over the windows at night. A total of 375 1200-mm light bars and 15 600-mm fixtures were used. (See the more photos via the link below).
originally: treehugger
Via: LED Magazine
Next Generation Displays from Lightengine
During the last ten years Lightengine has developed a display management architecture, drawing from its experience with major projects, which now offers truly advanced integration of lighting, moving imagery and real time control. Using high performance, open systems-based computing and networks, and drawing upon reliability and data security techniques from the aerospace industry, Lightengine products allow ambitious and very large installations to be undertaken which would not previously have been possible.
Key to this capability is Lightengine’s Pixelbus� architecture � a structured approach to building and operating heterogeneous display systems for both temporary events or permanent installations � quickly and reliably. Pixelbus� uses industry-standard gigabit ethernet and RS-485 to connect a completely scalable network of low-cost computers - Lightengine Image Generators - with displays, enabling multi-vendor break installations to be configured quickly and easily.
Whether LED panel, DMX lighting or Lightengine’s own revolutionary Patch displays, Pixelbus� reduces complex cabling, matches brightness and colour and offers the highest possible performance without any restrictions of scale or addressing. The result is that even complex installations with real time control can be built from Lightengine components without costly engineering development - integrated solutions using existing multi-vendor displays.
via: Mediaarchitecture
The Torre Agbar - 21st Century Illuminate Architecture
The Torre Agbar, or Agbar Tower, has been designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. It opened in June 2005 and it was inaugurated officially by the Kings of Spain on 16 September 2005.
The Torre Agbar is a colored lighting illuminate skyline that pretend to become one of the 21st century landmark of Barcelona.
The building is characterized by its nocturnal illumination: it has more than 4,000 luminous devices that use technology LED. A total of 4,500 L3 RGB lights were installed to illuminate the 32 floors of offices in the Agbar tower. The lighting system, which contains 4,500 L3 RGB lights, is controlled from a single computer.
Jean Nouvel wrote on this project: “This is not a tower, a skyscraper, in the American sense. It is a more an emergence, rising singularly in the center of a generally calm city. Unlike slender spires and bell towers that typically pierce the horizons of horizontal cities, this tower is a fluid mass that bursts through the ground like a geyser under permanent, calculated pressure.”
via: glass on web & blog wired
Photo: LedsMagazine.com
Don’t miss Agbar Tower photo set at Flickr
Transparente Headquarters Media LED Facade
Transparent mediafacade at the T-Mobile Headquater Bonn, the world first transparent mediafacade in a size of 300 square meters, being attached to a building, a fine example of a harmonius connection of architecture and media.
The aluminiumslets with the depth of 3 cm and the tickness of only 1 cm were specially designed to fit waterproof LED-cards. The large pixel distance creates the transparency of the construction.
The led modules are integrated in metal extrusions. Due to it´s brightness and it´s fast responding leds this fassade has the ability to display both, static and animated content also during daytime. Content can be updated online by ag4. Thus it is possible to meet the fast changing communication requirements for a company like T-Mobile.
Some technical Details:
Resolution: about 244 000 Pixel
Best viewing distance: 40 meters
via: mediaarchitecture
The World Largest 3D LED Display
The “Electrotechnische Vereeniging”, the association for students of electrical engineering from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), will reveal the world’s largest 3D-display Sunday 23rd of April. The display measures 8 metres in width, 4 metres in height and 2 metres in depth and consists of a matrix of 8.000 LEDs with table tennis balls around them. This stunt is being organised because of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the “Electrotechnische Vereeniging” (ETV). The display will be revealed on Sunday at 9.00 pm local time on the ‘Markt’ in Delft.
It will be possible to send text messages to the MatriXX during the times it is operating. Send your sms/text to +31 (0) 6 24 171 797 . It will be displayed during the next sms display time slot. Threats, rude language etc will be filtered.
Read more at:
Curiosity Collective
Neteorked Performance
interactive architecture
or check the videos
LED Facade: James Clar & Cloud9
James Clar of LED Voxel fame is currently working on an architecture model for the Cloud9’s ‘Habitat Hotel’. “The Habitat Hotel will be developed in the Barcelona area. It is a hotel with a light mesh that wraps the whole building. The light mesh has sensors that will read the daylight sun amplitude and then at night each node will give off color according to how much that node collected sun. Therefore, the mesh reflects the energy levels of each day, it will change over seasons and due to weather… The mesh itself is raised off the building and forms its own see-through structure. Also, each node is self-contained with it’s own sensor and LEDs, there is no central computer controlling the whole structure.”
via: interactive architecture
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