Whilst reading Digital Tectonics, edited by Neil Leach, David Turnbull and Chris Williams (a very good read) I discovered an interesting piece of interactive architecture called Lattice Archipelogics, an installation for Latent Utopias in Steirischer Herbst, Graz, 2002. This installation was formed by a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Servo and Smart Studio and provides an interactive piece of architecture which reacts to the movement of the audience. As the audience navigates around the installation, motion sensors detect their movement which is processed by software, organising them into cellular particles that distribute in variable, algorithmically-driven assemblies. These assemblies in turn trigger the LED Lighting array.
What is interesting about the project is the way movement of people is mapped and then influences the atmosphere of a space. Furthermore, the lighting patterns help to create a temporary series of vertical planes in a space which also has the potential to influence the people who interact with it.
What this reminds me of is a project done in Grasshopper (a plugin for Rhino) called Component wall. http://www.giuliopiacentino.com/component-wall/. Imagine the ball in the video as a person moving.
Wouldn’t it be great if architecture had the potential to be more adaptive and reactive! You already see elements of architecture that interact with the environment (Such as the Louvers on the Devonshire Building, Newcastle University, England) for sustainability reasons but wouldn’t it be great if the user had the potential to interact with the skin of the façade in some way. Could architecture be something that is moulded and adapted to meet the users needs and then spring back to its original form once it has been used again?
Michael Smith
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