The Digital 'Supper club'

So this week we were put into our theme tutorials - I have selected the "Digital 'supper club'" as my group - we are looking at how digital technology can influence/ enhance a building.


Our theme task for this week is to divide into groups of five and research an allocated topic - my group's topic is Digitally enhanced exteriors:


BRAINSTORMING IN CLASS:
To begin with we brainstormed some idea we ALREADY had about what is/might be out there:


SMOKE
- the theatre scene from inglorious bastards
- The building disappearing in fog from the tutorial leacture


LIGHT
- laser technology
- Projection
FROM: http://thefoxisblack.com/2011/03/17/building-skin-with-digital-tattoos-of-london/


GLASS
- Reflection
- Suspended Particle Devices (with an electronic switch between opaque and transparent)


MOVEABLE
- Louvers
- Rotating (such as the rotating tower planned in Dubai)
- Component design (moving as in possible to change)
- User activated


LATTICE/LAYERING


MATERIALS
- Lego building
- Plastic building (japan)
- Rubber installation room
- Living walls
- 'Glass public toilet'
- One way mirror (a restaurant & Ripleys Believe It Or Not tongue test)
- Metal (the "Chicago Bean" in Millennium park


WATER BASED


OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
- mad men: falling man
- Escher
- Scale
- Perception
- Depth
- Glass layers
- Distortion


SOUND
- Melbourne drop floor (Skydeck 88 "The Edge")
- William Tell Overture - a road in America designed for a honda ad - a bit out of tune...(this is the best video I could find :S)



HOLOGRAMS


WEATHER BASED
- Heat sensitive (I remember having a heat sensitive toothbrush - maybe possible to create a building surface from a similar material?)
- Weather activated (such as the wind screen they are building on the Brisbane Airport carpark)

PNEUMATIC

- Inflatable

(Click on image for moving sequence)