Living Architecture Spring 2008 Pratt

This collaboration between Alex Haw and Marc Fornes at the AA in London, is both a graceful intervention into the architecture school and a poignant critique of surveillance. The LED network is linked to a building-wide monitoring system that translates the amount – and I believe location – of activity into bursts of light.

While not employing the material actuators which we will be focusing on, I find this project to be exemplary due to its instrumentalization of responsive technologies. Its complex inputs and outputs do not justify the merits of the project, rather they are the method for arriving at a provocative and engaging space.

For more, visit:

http://www.theverymany.net/labels/Alex%20Haw.html

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/lighthive-luminous-architectural.html

# posted by Sean Dugan : 9:02 PM