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Inspired by our ITD students and our friends from the Hyperbody group of the Architecture faculty who promote an interactive approach to designing architecture. That leads to entire building structures becoming dynamically engaged in our daily lives. Architecture no longer has to serve as mere scenery for events, but it becomes an event generator and participator itself.

Dieter Vandoren and Aadjan van der Helm build a portal, one in a series of interconnected interactive portals that will be meaningful both on the community level of the installation and on the individual level of each single portal. Each of those portals will be able to sense actions of people and information flowing from its environment; it will dynamically process this information and perform accordingly. Such dynamic performance will be manifested with movement, light or sound, but also communicated to other portals scattered in diverse locations.

The portal consists of two strips of el-wire, some sensors and a computer running max/msp. The lime green inside wire speaks for each studiolab visitor walking through the door, the aqua green el-wire flashes for visitors at other befriended labs elsewhere (if you want to join let us know).

You can watch the sensor feed at the Pachube website

Last update: Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 3:30:29 PM