The link above explores the interactive artwork 'Lunar' by Studio Roosegaarde, featuring a series of interactive light objects placed within a Youth division of Mental Health Care GGZ in Breda, the Netherlands. The objects are designed to 'come to life' upon detection of children's touch. The clip documents not only the function of the artwork, but the positive mental effects to be had on the users.
Social interaction can be controlled per-say, with the integration of interactive systems that combine play and everday life. This stimulation is what stems social interaction and essentially permites a more intimate relation with strangers.
An extreme example of public interaction generated by interactive projects, is that of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) architects from Denmark who provided the city of New York with the "City Pulse" heart sculpture on Valentines day. Made from 400 transparent acrylic tubes fitted with LEDs, which radiate light in the midst of the urban bustle. The lighting system is triggered by a heat sensor, in which the public generate.
Facades play an important role in both the energy-efficiency and in the aesthetic qualities of a space. What will deem to make a building more sustainable is greater interest and activation of the space. With currently knowledge expressing the interest gained by incorporating interactive works into a project, developing notions of interactive facades, may deliver a more stimulated and 'life like' environment in which prompts the public to truly interact, explore and discover. In this instance social interaction becomes inevitable, creating positive endorphins through unexpected interaction in which people will directly relate to the experience of the architecture.
Croma is an inter-disciplinary research initiative at MIT led by Daniel Cardoso, Dr. Avni Argun and Carlos Rocha in New York; who have developed the very first touch-senstive organic electrochromic device (OECD). A basic premisis of this work is that a programmable and responsive facade element can not only be aesthetically provocative and improve energy-efficiency of architecture, but also has the potential to alter the ways we relate to buildings and surfaces, opening exciting avenues for new kinds of interaction and experience.
https://vimeo.com/8126613 - Link to watch how this interactive facade functions.
Local control of an electrochromic facade affords new kinds of gestural control over architectural surfaces, revealing potential new experiences and design opportunities.
It is estimated that 50% of the heat that enters a building does so when there is no one to look through the window. Croma is developing a smart facade that saves energy by regulating the amount of sunlight that enters through windows.
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