THE FLOWER BUILDING
The potential for a lit facade to interact and convey information like never before is being made into reality. In this video you will watch the behind the scenes concepts and design mindset behind an interactive curtain wall building project. (bringing a new spin to interactive façade lighting technology)
During the day, this façade turns solar exposure into energy to then turn this energy into different stages of performance and behavior at night. The designers explain how their video wall gives this building flower-like behavior — by absorbing daily light that later turns into nightly performance energy — manifesting a type of sustainability.
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PUSHING THE BOUNDARY
It is nice to see this project pushing certain architectural design boundaries. As the hardware, software and content all come together — it is hard to believe that the façade’s resolution is only one pixel per every three feet. This certainly does make one think twice about Read more
