architecture
Transparent LED panels keep getting better — NEXNOVO showed at ISE how they double as glass façades, sliding doors and storefronts without blocking sight lines. Interesting for retail, wayfinding and architectural integration where a black panel would kill the...
Gigantic Library called ” The Eye”. The Tianjin Binhai Library, Tianjin, China. It was completed by Dutch architecture firm MVRDV and local architects from the Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute. 33,700 square meters. Five levels. Enough shelf...
The Lego experience centre — an exploration of systematic creativity through the LEGO brick, where structured play becomes a model for imaginative thinking.
Four examples of 3D projection mapping on architecture — from Urbanscreen's geometric Kubik 555 on Hamburg's Speicherstadt and Obscura Digital's 7-projector setup at San Francisco's Mint Plaza, to Amon Tobin's concert-scale building as light sculpture. Collectively a...
This is a great way to do your presentation. Using augmented reality and some sort of motion tracking and videomapping. Start from 2:45 if you do not have the patience. There it starts to get interesting:
555 KUBIK — facade projection on a building in Hamburg by Urbanscreen. The architecture itself appears to deconstruct, fold and reform via mapped projection. Classic reference for architectural projection mapping.
Indoor beach — Ocean Dome in Miyazaki, Japan: a fully enclosed indoor beach with artificial waves, sun, and sand, once the world's largest indoor water park. it's called "ocean dome", and you could find it in Miyazaki.
Illusion — a creative approach to painting a house that reveals a hidden visual illusion when viewed from a specific angle.