denny Architectural Art & Design

Ornamental and granulated light and media facade for the ILUMA Urban Entertainment Centre in Singapore. Video documentary of the first configuration and testing program in march 2009. Full project completion and inauguration scheduled for 12/2009. Building architecture: WOHA Architects Crystal Mesh Facade: realities:united, Studio for Art and Architecture in collaboration with WOHA Architects Software development: thismedia Animation on facade: autokolor with realities:united Documentary: Production: autokolor with realities:united Camera/Montage: Timm Ringewaldt Music: Daniel Dorsch (cc) 2009, realities-united.de Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ For the ILUMA building in Singapore RU created a light and media facade, which had to be effective both during day and night. The project is part of a new development (Urban Entertainment Center) designed by WOHA architects1. In various ways this concept blurs boundaries as it actively merges the concept of a media screen with an ornamental architectural screen filtering air and light and as it blends abstract futuristic shapes with a 1970s Vegas style. The „screen facade is formed by a tessellated pattern made up by physical plastic bodies. A regular matrix of fluorescent lamps is superimposed onto (into) this idiosyncratic physical structure. That produces a display screen, which however is vividly distorted by the strong geometry of the individual ...