Interactive Skateboard Lighting Instillation

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This instillation for the Melbourne Tron Premiere maps and reacts to every move made whilst skating. This is done with just the use of a iPod touch placed in the users pocket. The software used for the instillation shows how long the skaters have been in the air and reacts differently depending on the time triggering different effects. The image is displayed from projectors above the installation. This use of software is fantastic it would incredible if it could be incorporated within a urban landscape. City authorities would be welcoming skaters in to city centers if the streets were reacting to their presence and certainly would make for a far more interesting park than many of the contemporary parks and squares that private owners and councils spend so much time and effort protecting not allowing certain demographics to enjoy. I can see installations like this breaking down certain political barriers many people seem to enforce in public zones.

The High Line: An Urban Model, Or Not?

The High Line within the Chelsea district of Manhattan is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary landscape projects in the world. The first sections of the High Line have been up and running for over a year now with the third and final stage being developed at the moment. Within the time of its construction I have barely heard a negative word on the High Line. This video however questions whether the High Line really is an urban model. The High LIne has been the driving force behind the regeneration of the chelsea area which was once part of a low income neighborhood. However the Chelsea area has seen a huge regeneration with the High Line being the logo and landmark of this regeneration. Many new developments have come of the back of the High Line such as the New York Standard Hotel. The Whitney Museum that was once located east of Central Park is now being moved to 17th street opposite the Gansevoort entrance of the High LIne and is being designed by one of the great architects Renzo Piano.

Not only does the video talk about if the High Line is a Urban Model or not but it also goes into detail on the politics of the surrounding area and the effects on the local communities and whether the regeneration of the Chelsea borough and the change from a low income area to a very high income neighborhood has had a negative effect on the original communities.

Kubik

Kubik is a temporary lighting display like no other. Designed by german architects Modulorbeat the open air instillation is built up from two hundred and seventy five reclaimed industrial illuminated tanks. Kubik was on tour in Barcelona, Berlin and Milan where it was used by the fashion label Diesel. The tour itself used a number of installations that were positioned adjacent to one another. The illuminated industrial tanks were able to change colours and hue in response to the speed of the music.



Images sourced from http://www.makiro-ent.com/index.php?id=26 and http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6405767378

Ice Hotel

British designers Ben Rousseau an Ian Douglas-Jones have transformed this room at the Jukkasjarvi Ice Hotel in Sweden in just thirteen days. The lighting in the walls was achieved by cutting groves into the ice then electroluminescent wire was inserted. All the furnishings were hand carved and polished to give a crystal effect.

Images sourced from http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/tron-ice-hotel-13-photos

The Blackbox Romania

The Blackbox in Romania was designed by a group of architects known as parasite studio. The whole space has been designed with illuminated coloured lines cutting through all aspects of the nightclub. The name Blackbox came about as the nightclub is totally separate from the outside world. The design does not feature any windows at all, this allows the design to be fulfilled throughout the day. The existing structure of the space separates and cuts straight down the middle of the club generating a divide. But parasite studios incorporated this as part of the design and identity with the illuminated strips now flowing off from the structure.

Images sourced from http://abduzeedo.com/psychedelic-blackbox-romania

Melbourne Recital Centre ARM Architects

The Melbourne Recital Centre by ARM Architects is part of the transformation of Melbourne’s Southbank. The centre won the 2009 Victorian Architecture Medal for successfully winning top medals in all three categories of design. William Wardell Award for public architecture; the Marion Mahony Award for interior architecture and the Joseph Reed Award for urban design. The theatre has become one of the finest acoustically designed halls in the world. The facade of the centre along the Southbank has also become iconic for the design and its ability of changing pedestrian and traffic direction and patterns.

Images sourced from http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/melbournes_iconic_theater_buildings_scoop_victorian_architecture_awards/

Exhale Pavilion Phu Hoang Office and Rachely Rotem Studio

The Exhale Pavilion is a fully interactive lighting instillation. It was designed in collaboration with phu hoang office and rachely rotem studios. The pavilion was designed as part of the art basel design Miami 2010 competition. The competition was aimed at creating ephemeral architecture along Miami beach front. The pavilion was designed as a stage for music and performance arts. The pavilion is 2322.576 m2 in size and is built up of seven miles of reflective, phosphorescent rope. The phosphorescent rope is charged by the wind from the sea, as the wind blows through the structure the structure moves and sways with the ropes lighting in the wind. Smaller sensors are placed at a lower level to allow someone to blow on the sensors briefly lighting up a small area.

Images sourced from http://design-milk.com/exhale-pavilion-by-phu-hoang-office-and-rachely-rotem-studio/ and http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/12407/phu-hoang-office-rachely-rotem-studio-exhale.html