Digital facade abril 28, 2008

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.

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