Week 7 Media Facades: Dr Hank Haeusler

Today's lecture explored creating buildings for digital citys. Design professionals now have to take on new media skills and understanding when proposing certain developments. The lecture was extremely visual, and took us through various footage and animated facades. It spoke about the do's and dont's of designing a media facade. For more information on Dr Hank Haeusler's work, refer to his book "Media Facades: History, Technology and Media Content".


 Some examples of amazing digital facades:

Blade Runner: The first time a facade was shown in a movie format



The Tower of Wind

Shibuya Crossing

I found this lecture very engaging mainly because it linked in so well with our group work. It explained the technical understandings of facades which will be useful when creating our urban media/graffiti proposal. Digital facades are questionable- in regards to the community and their needs. A lot of research is required before installing these projections into the environment. The impact of such projections requires planning in relation to its influence on and development of the wider community.


3 Types of Media Facades

1. Mechanical facades- Moving physical components
2. Projection facades
3. Illuminant facades – Different experience between viewing it from close up compared with far distances

There are many current examples of these around the world- Our group will be able to look at the work of various groups such as Urbanscreen to explore the possibilities and help steer our group in a direction which would be the most benefitical for the target audience and problem space. The below are examples of large screen projections- something our group would like to achieve.

Lorch am Rhein: Glanzlicht Hilchen-Haus / Urbanscreen (Bremen)



Oberwesel: Liquid Memories / Philipp Geist (Berlin)



Rheinfels (St.Goar) Skertzò (Paris) www.skertzo.com



Marksburg (Braubach): Plays of Shadow



Koblenz: A Wall is a Screen



As we prepared for our interim presentation on Friday, we collated our research to create our presentation. Our main focus was using projections to change the Kings Cross space.


Check out our presentation below;






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slides 5-8



Slides 9-14

slides 15-20



slides 21-26



Our group plans to use the holidays to refine our design idea and finalise our desired outcome, to ensure we make strong connections to why we have chosen to incorporate interactive projections into the problem space of Kings Cross.



References:

Videos: Refer to link above each video
Shibuya Crossing: http://www.flickr.com/groups/people-in-tokyo/discuss/72157600266633021/
Tower of Wind: http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-architecture-wind-tower-self-sufficient-green-habitat-for-the-future/
Blade Runner Image: http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/category/poll-results/