Crystal Mesh Low-res Building Facade from realities:united
It seems funny to think of projects from the recent past as ‘old’ but this beautiful facade work from realities;united, a studio for art/architecture/technology in Germany, is timeless. I love low-res building facades and this one is Crystal Mesh – for the building complex “ILUMA” in Singapore. It combines aspects of a conventional curtain façade with those of a light installation or monitor-façade. Crystal Mesh forms the building’s visual hull; the construction-physical functions are carried out by another exterior wall deeper inside.
Crystal Mesh consists of a tessellated pattern made of 3,000 modules (more…)
Low-res Storefront Skin in Frankfurt
Check out this low-res LED skin on the Zeilgalerie mall in Frankfurt. Th structure was in need of a facelift and what better medium than LED? With the size and spacing of the pixels it looks like they’ve pretty much maxed out their design in terms of complexity, but such are the vagaries of low resolution- you can only display so much. The second vid shows some details of the face and some close-ups.
Can’t Wait For This One…
The folks over at PLSN have a great article on the upcoming Chemical Brothers tour. Â Not only am I a HUGE CB fan, but they’ll be using the G-LEC Solaris+ 3d system. It’s a low-res hanging “curtain” of orbs that utilize “pixel spheres” to accept digital content. Think of those little christmas bee-lites hung as icicles around a house…only with video being sent to them and you get the idea. U2 used this back on the Elevation tour to great success. Â The beauty of this type of technology is the versatility and not so much the resolution capability. Â You can create ridiculously 3 dimensional looks and match all the color with content that is already running to other projection sources or LED walls. Â I doubt this tour will come anywhere NEAR where I live so if you get a chance to see it drop us a line and send some pics! Â We’ll cover this type of LED technology in a future post but for now….dig it!
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