Living Skins: Architecture as Interface abril 30, 2008
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Living Skins: Architecture as Interface
Peter Hall
Buildings communicate their function and status through a language of visual signs.
A cross on the roof generally signifies a church, a grand arch commemorates a triumph, steel-and-glass curtain walls usually indicate there are offices inside, and a duck-shaped or hot-dog shaped building usually means that poultry or hotdogs are for sale. A more dynamic system of communications arrived in the 20th Century with the first “zipper” sign in New York’s Times Square in 1928, an illuminated bulletin board that transmitted the day’s headlines: buildings henceforth began to communicate in data flows as well as via bricks and mortar. Today, commercial hubs from Times Square to Seoul are showcases of giant moving graphics that fly across several stories, though more often than not they are advertisements that disregard what is happening within the building itself. What if a sign did not simply tout new movies, sodas, and celebrity babies in one-way feeds, but instead revealed something unique about the building, its occupants, or its environment? What if the building could respond, in real time, to the movement of people, the weather, or the whims of bystanders or behind-the-scenes artists? Digital designers and architects have begun working together to move beyond the façade and give buildings a living skin.
Digital facade abril 28, 2008
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Digital Facade
Mariana Yordanova
Urban space in increasingly dominated today by buildings with media facades consisting of large animated screens (Ill. 2). In the past, traditional billboards impaired the lighting and ventilation of the internal spaces to the rear. A new system created by the G-LEC Company, in contrast, has a coarser pixel grid and allows visual contact between indoor and outdoor space, while still ensuring adequate resolution for the images. In this way, video quality can be combined with transparency.
Media facade: Los nuevos escenarios urbanos abril 20, 2008
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Abstract
El impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en la estética y producción artística del espacio urbano, vislumbran un medio reflexivo que propone una realidad donde la heterogeneidad de los imaginarios urbanos y sus futuros inimaginables, ya no se piensan críticamente sino como verdaderos laboratorios y observatorios en un mundo pleno de posibilidades y oportunidades.
La proyección de espacios tecnológicamente activos, donde la adopción de variadas manifestaciones de arte tengan cabida, conciben una atmósfera de dialogo e interacción con el usuario, ya que su infinita capacidad para crear lenguajes de representación visual, nos hace pensarlos como componentes integrales en la construcción de lugares de experimentación, en este caso, a través del concepto de Pantallas Urbanas (Urban Screen), una variada clase de discursos visuales inscritos en el espacio urbano.
Con el trabajo de la fachada mediática (media facade) derivada del concepto de las Pantallas Urbanas, se invita a reflexionar sobre el desarrollo de proyectos de arte presentes en el entorno urbano que involucran a la tecnología actual. Inteligentes propuestas construidas cotidiana y colectivamente bajo conceptos de armonización, creatividad y democratización.
Christian Saucedo Rodríguez
II SIMPOSIO INTERNACIONAL DE ESTUDIOS VISUALES UANL – FAV
Monterrey, N.L México . abril de 2008
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