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Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Ran across this. I think this is a very interesting take on integration of technology into building. We were lucky to have been able to hear Tom Bieling talk about his work on the same principle last year in Spokane. He is from Germany too. Something must be in the water there. 
Where his was an interactive exhibition, this is more premeditated, choreographed performance that was cognizant of the concept underlaying the layout of the facade and consequently more embedded with the architecture.
The nice thing about this is that this suggest a new type of performance of a building rather that ‘dumb’ screens projecting other media or showing what people are browsing on the web (self broadcasting) as is to often the first tactics heard in architecture design studios when the mention of integrating media into a facade. This is a performance of a work of art in its own right made possible by the art of the architecture.
