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Interactive architecture

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about interactive architecture

Proyecto • By Leva EngineeringCentros de Exposiciones

Kwsa Kinetic Wall

Kwsa is a 209-square-meter kinetic wall at Aramco’s VVIP Center in Riyadh, consisting of six 6x7 meter sections. The system integrates 20,000 stepper motors, each controlled by a cross-shaped PCB embedded in the chassis. Sharon Ritossa Movement is achieved through a high-helix lead screw and a lever system, optimizing mechanical efficiency while reducing component count. Self-lubricating technopolymer parts ensure silent operation and eliminate lubrication requirements. The system is designed for front-access assembly and maintenance. Sharon Ritossa Precision across the installation is maintained within a few tenths of a millimeter. This was achieved through advanced simulations, an automated production pipeline, and speci... Más

Proyecto • By IndissolubleCentro de Visitantes

INTERACTIVE BOOK INSTALLATIONS

¿Quién fue el padre de la cirugía o el fundador de la óptica moderna? ¿Quién consiguió ser la primera persona en volar en el año 852 d.C.? Todas estas hazañas tuvieron como protagonistas a grandes pensadores árabes.  Indissoluble   Indissoluble diseña y produce cuatro libros interactivos de gran formato para la International Book Fair de Doha, en Qatar, con el fin de dar a conocer a los visitantes los hitos alcanzados por estos grandes pensadores árabes a lo largo de la historia.  Para la feria del Centro de Exposiciones y Convenciones de Doha, Indissoluble instala estos libros interactivos, fabricados con aluminio, lona impresa y una... Más

Proyecto • By Tinker ImagineersHospitales

COACH

WHAT IS IT? For the temporary location of the Centre for Overweight Adolescent and Children’s Healthcare (COACH) of the Maastricht University Medical Center+, The Netherlands, experience design agency Tinker imagineers created a reusable pop-up concept: a playful and interactive world that nudges children and their parents in the direction of a healthy diet and regular exercise. A motivating and stimulating environment that seems miles away from the world of doctors and hospitals, but does not look too ‘sporty’ or competitive either. But just sitting down and waiting for your turn is a thing of the past!   CHALLENGE FACED The programme of COACH is all about coaching children and young adults who are overweight t... Más

Proyecto • By Estudio Guto RequenaPabellones

The Dancing Pavilion

The Dancing Pavilion is temporary Interactive Architecture created for the Olympic Park 2016. Scattered sensors inside of the dance oor capture the beat of the music and the movement of people dancing, which activates the motors of the mirrors on the façade of the building. The result is a kinetic architecture that hypnotizes people, and transforms the space into the most exciting dance club of the 2016 Olympics. The pavilion was designed for a Brazilian beer brand to host music, parties, DJ’s and shows. Located in the Barra Olympic Park, the primary location for the stadiums in the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the building has an interactive architectural skin. The outer face of the metallic skin is composed of various colors that suggest diver... Más

Proyecto • By LapitecCasas Privadas

Diamond Tree

Diseñado y ejecutado por 3ndy Studio, de Vigonovo (Venecia), Diamond Tree nace de un concepto arquitectónico que ha previsto la utilización de materiales innovadores, entre los que destaca el Lapitec®, y que está centrado en una visión inédita del espacio habitacional.  Partiendo de un concepto de paralelepípedo, el volumen del edificio está modelado en dos prismas irregulares, por medio de divisiones, giros, sustracciones y adiciones: unas soluciones arquitectónicas destinadas a crear un espacio fluido, carente de pasillos que hagan de unión entre las diversas zonas. Siguiendo esta lógica, los volúmenes de la zona de día y de noche confluyen en un espacio «híbrido» al girar, generando una visión estereoscópica de los ambientes interio... Más

Proyecto • By New Wave Architecture(Lida Almassian / Shahin Heidari)Ayuntamientos

Polour Rock Climbing Hall

The project site is a part of The Mount-Damavand Region located on the north of Tehran -the capital city of Iran. It is a significant mountain in Persian mythology and has a special place in Persian literature.Damavand MountainIt is the only peak that is covered with snow the whole year and is therefore mostly white. During most times of the year you can see beautiful and different clouds sweeping above. It is a semi-active volcano that you feel it being an alive and dynamic element of the nature.Damavand along with its natural beauty and landscape is a place for athletes to hike and climb especially during winters.One of the settlements for mountain climbers is the Iranian Mountain Federation temporary Camp in Polour village located on the... Más

Proyecto • By Interactive Architecture LabTalleres de Trabajo

FABRICATING PERFORMANCE

UCL’s Interactive Architecture Lab has developed a new type of choreography – one that explores the potential for dialogue between humans and robots – and the way we might design cooperatively in the future. Fabricating Performance is the brainchild of students Syuko Kato and Vincent Huyghe and brings together their respective specialisms of dance and robotic systems, under the supervision of the Lab’s director, Ruairi Glynn. Inspired by existing notational languages in dance, Fabricating Performance evolves what have traditionally been graphic, symbolic systems and proposes a new way of interpreting and representing movement, through the generation of architectural-­‐scale sculptures. To achieve this, Huyghe and Kato have designed... Más

Proyecto • By Andrea TabocchiniExposiciones

SOCIAL NETWORK

SOCIAL NETWORK is the winning proposal of DM-KM278 2014, an international competition organized by MAPPELAB magazine in collaboration with MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome. The aim of the design was to realize a one-night installation of 5000m2 of space on the beach of Senigallia, Italy, right in front of a historic shrine. The attempt of the installation event was to let people reflect on the beach both as a limit of the contemporary urban environment and an area of contact between local identity and international creativity. The proposal is a social and interactive architecture composed with rows of fishing nets, which reminisces the way fishermen dried their nets in the past. This composition organized the progr... Más

Proyecto • By WeNew InnovationViveros

The PlayRoom

The PlayRoom is a functional space designed by WeNew Innovation where children interact playing while receiving wellness therapies. To envision this project the designers have studied children behavior and translate the naturalness of the child into the space interaction: the toys are made in the own interactive architecture. The project concept was born from the trend of time valorization combined with wellcare, so while kids play, treatments - such as color therapy, music therapy, aromatherapy and reflexology - are happening in a natural and organic way. "I believe that children learn fast and, more and more, they learn in different ways. They discover things by playing and learn by discovering" says Michelle Souza, UX Designer and co-fou... Más

Proyecto • By Michael JantzenPabellones

The Entangled Pavilion

The Entangled Pavilion is one in a series of my design studies that explore new ways in which architecture can be reinvented in order to become more responsive to the people who use it. This is a design study for a new kind of interactive architecture. The structure consists of a large steel support frame (that can be covered with a glass canopy) and four movable steel shade roof segments. Each of the segments are connected to the support frame at a center pivot mast. Two electric powered motorized wheels are attached to the base of each of the shade roof segments. The wheels run in tracks that are mounted around the perimeter of the large support frame. The motorized wheels and perimeter tracks allow each of the four shade roof segments... Más

Proyecto • By Michael JantzenPabellones

The Radius Transformation Pavilion

The Radius Transformation Pavilion is an experimental, interactive, public architecture, which explores new ways in which to manipulate the shape of a large structure, in order to accommodate the changing needs and/or desires of those who encounter it. The light weight steel structure is formed from six wedge shaped curved segments that can be rotated in any direction around a center support column. Each of theses segments vary in size, and each have rubber wheels mounted under the portion of the segment that is on the opposite side of the center support column. The rubber wheels allow visitors to easily push each of the segments around the center support column. As the different segments are rotated around the column, many different... Más

Proyecto • By FoxLin ArchitectsExposiciones

Neural Sky

The Neural Sky Exhibit is a large interactive exhibit that was designed and built to be exhibited at the Beyond Wonderland Concert and at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The primary goals were to develop and understand strategies that can be applied to interactive architecture. Heavy emphasis was placed on creating a full-scale environment that a person could walk through, interact with, and experience spatially. The large scale environment was developed with over 10,000 computer-controlled LED lights that moved throughout the metal structure like a neural network. From an interactive standpoint, the idea is that the lights connect people within the space by literally connecting their locations with a path of light. From a con... Más

Proyecto • By Michael JantzenEsculturas

The Interactive Transformable Plaza

The Interactive Transformable Plaza is a conceptual design proposal for a public gathering place that can be manipulated by the visitors who encounter it. If one were to first see the plaza in its neutral stage, it would appear to simply be a large flat grey colored wooden platform, with nine yellow stanchions (topped with boat winches) mounted at both ends. If someone decided to crank any of the boat winches, a section of the platform in line with that boat winch would begin to fold up out of the platform. Each of the boat winches (which are mounted at either end of the platform) can be used to lift one of the eighteen sections of the platform up and out of the flat plane into an A shaped section, which can be varied in width and height... Más

Proyecto • By ITHAKA-Architecture and DesignCines

Reconstruction of “Pushkinsky” Cinema - dynamic facade

"Change the face" international competition project - Interactive architecture, dynamic skinning Address: Pushkin sq., Moscow, Russia Project year: 2011 This project is created within the framework of the International Architectural Competition "Change the Face" for Reconstruction of Cinema "Pushkinsky" in Moscow. The goal of the contest: Transformation of cinema image and its reorganization in accordance with new demands of society and within the new architectural and urban environment of Pushkin Square. Cinema "Russia" ("Pushkinskiy") is a typical construction of the 1960s of the Soviet period. Over the past 20 years of post-Soviet period, in the current transition economic situation of the country, "Pushkinskiy" cin... Más

Proyecto • By Oppenheim Architecture + Design LLPAlojamiento

Cube

Cube represents the next frontier in multifamily high-rise housing in urban areas. A dramatic and elemental steel infrastructure creates the possibility for ultimate volumetric flexibility where the homeowner can customize spatial prerogatives. Rising 22 stories over the design district in Miami, Florida—Cube promotes its occupants to design their own domain with the possibility of connecting multiple cube modules vertically, horizontally, and diagonally in addition to creating double height volumes, garden voids and cantilevered living environments. Generated by desire and need rather than architectural assumption, the volumetric play of the building creates intriguing arrangements of solid and void— a true interactive architecture.... Más