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Students build up installations at our Biennale Students for the Hogeschool van Amsterdam brought a facade mock up of the They showed a lot of patience with mounting all the glass disks on the Galleria mock up and a lot of team spirit while working out how to hang the A Big Thank You! to them! Here are the final installations:
Media Architecture Biennale 2010 – The Exhibition – Photo Documentation Filed under: MAB 2010 News Biennale Photos It was great that you have been our guest at the Media Architecture Biennale in Vienna! More documentation will follow. Public Opening: Thursday 7 October 2010, 18:30 Künstlerhaus Wien OPENING 7 October 2010. Welcome by Peter Bogner (director Künstlerhaus) opening party Filed under: MAB 2010 News Biennale Registration is open! We are proud to announce that the Biennale website is online and that the registration is open now. Filed under: MAB 2010 News King’s Road Tower 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. Luma Space 2010 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 co?ncidental 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 1075 Peachtree, Atlanta 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 fa?ade to serve as a continuous visual animation for their iconic location. Integrated into the architecture, the media fa?ade 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 fa?ade. 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. Filed under: Products City of Dreams, Macau
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Rogier van der “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 fa?ade 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 fa?ade skin responding to the environment by reflecting daylight and showing its 3D nature at night with integrated lighting.”
via:, www., Media Architecture Biennale Review The first Media Architecture Biennale took place October 7th-9th in Vienna. It brought together an exhibition, a conference and a series of workshops, with over 200 international participants from the fields of architecture, informatics, design, lighting, and others. The theme of the Biennale 2010 was ?Urban Media Territories; the re-stratification of urban public spaces through digital media.” Filed under: Event, MAB 2010 News BoxLed at the ig architektur, Vienna
Our BoxLed Installation can currently be seen at the ig architektur in Vienna, 1060 – Gumpendorfer Stra?e 63! Siemens Car Park, Zug
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 fa?ade, 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. Call: CHI 2011 Workshop on Large Displays in Urban Life Call for Participation http://largedisplaysinurbanlife Luminous Walls The movie ?Luminous walls: From clerestory windows to pixelated planes“, is a shortened version of the lecture that was presented at the Cornell University in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in Ithaca/USA (Oct. 18th, 2010) and at the Columbia University in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York (Oct. 26th, 2010). The timeline depicts different international lighting approaches from backlit clerestory windows for spiritual enlightenment to changing pixelated planes based on LED technology. Embedded videos for some projects enable a vivid understanding of dynamic installations. More text information is available on YouTube. Interview with Helmut Bien / Luminale
Mr Helmut Bien initiated the Luminale back in 2000 and realized the festival for the first time in 2002. The Luminale – Biennial of Lighting Culture is an international festival of lighting culture taking place every two years in Frankfurt am Main and the entire Rhine-Main region. 1. Mr. Bien, the Luminale is already a well established institution in the area of light art. In 2000 the lighting industry tradeshow moved from Hannover to Frankfurt. Michael Peters from Messe Frankfurt asked me for an event concept that should connect the city of Frankfurt with the new tradeshow called Light + Building. For the days of the fair Frankfurt should become the meetingplace for the whole world working with light. Not only the specialists and the industry but also the creative people, the architects, designers and artists and also the inhabitants and normal consumers should be involved. The idea was to create a transdisciplinary festival about lighting and energy and the qualities of urban living. Frankfurt should become a laboratory to see a wide range of approaches with light. you to take all the effort to organise such an event? In the late 80ties i worked in Berlin as a curator (Berliner Festspiele) and in this time i made my first professional experiences with light, the scenographic power of lighting. The idea to realize an exhibition about lighting followed me since these days. Luminale was the chance to show this power of light to change atmospheres and to re-organize spaces. I am a little bit romantic in the classical sense of the poet Novalis. He explained that the romantic idea is to give normal things a new and higher meaning. Lighting design gives us the possibities to enchant the world. My friends of the scenographic agency Skertzò in Paris called themselves 'engineers of dreams'. That is also my personal motivation. And on this way i am enjoying it to discover people, engineers, designers, artists who are working on the same project. That creates the spirit of Luminale. a unique event? Since 2002 when we started the first edition of Luminale, it is a great success. A lot of people tried to copy the concept of the festival. Some of these festivals are important for the local people, some are made to promote the tourism, but the unique position of Luminale is the combination with the most important trade fair of the lighting industry. Luminale is the festival for the specialists and the local people. Luminale is well-known in the worldwide community of lighting enthusiasts and specialists. So Luminale is a pole position for careers of younger designers and artists. There are some festivals much bigger than Luminale. But at the end of the day you have to count the heads not the legs. Also Luminale is very popular but not a mass consumption event with coloured buildings looking like sad clowns. The unique combination with the trade fair gives Luminale the possibility to try new technologies and approaches and to give a chance to the un-known. The Media Facades Summit was such a project within Luminale. Is it still possible to top 2010? The digitization of light is a fascinating subject. The storytelling with light is a never ending challenge. Media Facades, Vjing, Projections are great themes. On the other hand the questions of energy reduction, recycling and sustainability. The third dimension is the development of the urban life. The skyline and nightlife of Frankfurt are the stages of Luminale. 5. What are your biggest wishes and dreams for the long term development of Luminale The biggest wish is that Frankfurt and the whole region accept light as one important dimension of its identity so that we can realize projects not only for the short time of the festival. A masterplan for the whole region with landmarks, light art, a green "balancity" which produces and consumes energy in a way that enrichs the qualities of life. Christoph Kronhagel – Mediatecture Dieses Buch von Christoph Kronhagel richtet sich an Architekten, Designer, Kommunikationsspezialist Medienfassaden und medial gestaltete R?ume.
Christoph Kronhagel, Architekt und selber seit fast 20 Jahren mediatektonisch arbeitend, pr?sentiert hier einen Bogen der verschiedenen Methoden medialer Inszenierungen. Dazu haben die bekanntesten Protagonisten aus dieser neuen Szene ihre Erfahrungen und Visionen anhand ihrer Projekte beschrieben. Es entstand eine Skizze, welche grundlegenden Transformationen die Architektur in einer Zeit macht, in der der ?ffentliche Raum durch den Einfluss der Medien v?llig neu verhandelt wird. Die daraus entstehenden Fragen und Herausforderungen werden durch Interviews und Beitr?ge von ganz unterschiedlicher Theoretiker und Gestaltern angesprochen. Den Rahmen für die bewusst gew?hlte Gegenüberstellung von Theorie und Praxis setzt Christoph Kronhagel durch eine Reihe eigener Beitr?ge, pers?nlicher Reflektionen und Projekte. Das Buch erschien im Springer Verlag, hat 450 Seiten mit vielen gro?formatigen Projektpr?sentationen, die durch die Verlinkung (QR-Codes) der Artikel mit Videoclips auf Youtube erg?nzt werden. Deutsche Ausgabe lieferbar bei Amazon via:Christoph Kronhagel – and Facebook When buildings start to twitter The timeline depicts international media facades with their different artistic, social or brand messages up to interfaces like iPhone Apps or brain sensors for public participation. The movie is a shortened version of the lecture, ?The semiotics of media facades – When buildings start to twitter” that was presented at the Parsons The New School for Design in New York. Order Catalogue 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. To order the catalogue, please fill in the following form: Led Weehls by monkeylectric
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