denny Architectural Art & Design

Architecture firm In Square Lab, post production company MPC Digital and software development company Existential create 4th dimension motion recognitive shop window art installation project Urban Prairie is an intuitive and interactive motion recognitive installation conceived and designed collaboratively by London architecture firm ın square lab, post production and visual effects specialist MPC Digital and software developer Existential for the London Festival of Architecture 2010. Inspired by the rapid reduction of green spaces due to urbanisation of cities, Urban Prairie seeks to recreate a 1000sqm sea of prairie from a 5m wide shop window. Green spaces are known to have positive effects on the image and vitality of spaces and provide valuable resources and focus for the communities. Green spaces provide a respite from the built environment and give an opportunity for recreation; promote health, well-being and quality of life. In this project, the main challenge for the team was to create a system that allows for maintaining or even extending the notion of green spaces through intelligent use of design and technology via 4th dimension (time + space) design. Further to that, it is also hope that Urban Prairie can serve as a catalyst to inspire and provoke discussions and speculations about the concept of inside vs outside, here vs there and virtual vs realism. Using an array of optical sensors and arduino boards, urban prairie captures and comprehends the movements of ...