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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 ...

Parhelia, a word derived from the Greek meaning "Beside the Sun", describing an optical phenomenon whereby light filters through airborne ice crystals to create halos of light. Asif Khan has created an architectural experience for Swarovski Crystal Palace at Design Miami/ 2012 which captures this phenomenon using more than 1million Swarovski crystals. "Bringing Swarovski, which you normally associate with jewelry and small objects, up to the scale of archictecture, which I think is where it belongs, has been a wonderful thing" says Asif Khan. www.swarovskicrystalpalace.tumblr.com

This work attempts to further develop the Inflatables technology while creating a new dialogue between man, machine, and architecture. In this work, I am modeling nature on a microscopic, fractal level. It comprises a system of plug-and-play, inflatable, musculoskeletal modules which allow me to design a series of transformative organic structures influenced by the exhibition space. The modular components can be freely connected and rearranged to produce sculptures of varied size, form, complexity and interactive possibility. The "live" sections of the form are equipped with a simple sensing system that forces the sculpture into action. Your bodys motion in passing through the space functions as a type of force field that pushes the sculptures bones away from you as you are sensed, keeping the sculpture at a constant distance from you. Each bone can be selectively animated by the viewers movements allowing for endless interactive possibilities. If you are so inclined, your motion enables you to open it up, creating portals in that let you in and close behind you, giving an extremely different vantage point: life from the inside. In this way, the work is influenced by the nature of the environment—the space—as well as by the audience participants, who are engaged both physically and aesthetically with the constantly transforming structure.

Architect and Associate Professor Manuel A. Báez incorporates the theme of the Crystal & Flame as he presents an overview of his architectural research and work. The metaphoric theme relates to the ubiquitous correlation between static form/structure and dynamic process or constraints and freedom that is intrinsically found throughout abstract, physical and biological phenomena. For further information on the theme please visit: manuelbaez.pbworks.com Associate Professor Manuel A. Báez has been at the Carleton University Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism since January of 2001. Previously, he taught in the United States at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City and Rhode Island School Design in Providence, RI. His work as an architect, artist and researcher draws inspiration from the generative potential of the forms, structures and integrative systems generated by elemental processes that exist throughout the natural environment. His educational concerns, interests and objectives are focused on the development of teaching methods and procedures derived from the research. Báez has extensively exhibited and lectured on his work and research in various international conferences and institutions. The work has been funded by such agencies and institutions as the Canada Council for the Arts the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ...

www.crystalfountains.com Chicago is home to a number of architectural landmarks. In 2004 they unveiled their newest landmark, Millennium Park, a world-class artistic and architectural extravaganza just off the famed "Magnficent Mile". The park has transformed unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots along prime lakefront into an architectural showcase. A collection of world-class artists, architects, planners, landscape artists and designers contributed to this unprecedented landmark. Crystal Fountains worked with the artist Jaume Plensa and full design team on the "Crown Fountain" taking interactive art, technology and water-shaping to new levels