Flare - Digital Wall Surface

What if the wall of your house could be made alive and used as a giant display. Now it can... in a way.

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(from Flare Facade, via Information Aesthetics)

Comments

Zim - Apr. 29, 2008

This is amazing! :)

John - Apr. 29, 2008

I wonder how loud it is... I bet you could hear it from outside, I wonder about inside as well.

Thomas Baekdal - Apr. 29, 2008

John, I was wondering about that myself when I was posting it.

Diana - Apr. 29, 2008

it is a nice art expression, but I hope it never be use as a display, because I think it is stressing.

Evral - Apr. 29, 2008

To me this seems like a waste of energy, it would be much better if it where powered by wind .

I dont see much practical application for something like this.

Douglas - Apr. 30, 2008

Coming straight off the Lamborghini post, my thought was, "And who'll get to clean that?" But then, "Cool!".

Mark - May. 1, 2008

I dont really see any use for it amazing as it looks

But wont it look different or not work as effecively on a bright sunny day? In the dark its pretty useless

Wont it depend on where you sstand and look at it from and also depend on the direction of the strongest source of light?

Rob - May. 1, 2008

You don't see the use for this besides visual??

Must not live in a harsh climate.

This would be perfect for buildings where you want to either use or reflect solar energy.

In Canada we have huge temperature extremes (-40c) to (+30) in the winter it could be tilted to gain energy and in the summer to reflect energy.

This is a very cool idea with tons of potential uses.

Misha Cornes - May. 1, 2008

This reminds me of the work that Jean Nouvel did on the Musee de L'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. He designed these apertures based on traditional Arab architecture that open and close depending on the amount of available ambient light.

brian - May. 1, 2008

It'd be better if those were solar panels or something, so the house could adjust for optimal energy production.

Lucas - May. 1, 2008

This has also been done in Melbourne Australia on one of the buildings in Docklands. It's been there for a few years now. It changes with the weather etc.

Anonymous - May. 2, 2008

i think that the video is a computer rendered animation.

infact the background looks like still and nothing is happening in the scene.

I think that is a very complex system and i don't know how it can be usefull.

Paige - May. 5, 2008

its amazing but i don't understand the point of it other than for show.

Anonymous 2 - May. 13, 2008

I believe that comment no. 12 is correct. The background is absolutely still. There's no movement anywhere, no reflections, the tree branches are still... it looks too static. I suspect that the video is a computer rendered composite, maybe just a visual idea for a work-in-progress project.

Anonymous - May. 14, 2008

I hope you don't want any windows in your building... :)

Anton - May. 15, 2008

it is a computer generated image, as their is no absolutly no wind as you can see the tree in the top right corner and nothing is moving not even in the reflection of the windows

Junky - May. 21, 2008

A beautiful way to waste Energy and we need more of this, so I can keep my job as an energy specialist.

tuffarts - May. 22, 2008

this would look much better. and have a longer life, if it were a passive system, with random patterns made by the wind.

Or massive single LCD pixels ?

Ray of Hope - May. 30, 2008

wooooooooooooooooow .

this is so great .

I can not believe my eyes .

Bosco - Jun. 2, 2008

I can not believe your eyes either.

For those that think this waste energy. No WAY BABEEE!!! I don't know what Berlin has to do with it, but it's in Germany, which is in Europe, which DID sign the Koyoto, sign hell, CREATED the Koyoto Treaty, so it makes it a little IMPOSSIBLE any European would, nay Could waste an erg of energy on some goofy display. You know Europeans are better than you, smarter, more cultured, older, wiser, snicker ... oh and over here we have this lovely bridge on sale ...

Watch Olympics - Jun. 21, 2008

For those not understanding how it could be used, imagine an art gallery with this. A vehicle like the building, which is generally just a vehicle to showcase the artwork becomes an artwork.

yellow - Jun. 25, 2008

I like the song.

cobalt chloride - Jun. 26, 2008

This is pointless. People should spend their time and money trying to save the starving people in the world not make shoddy membrane walls. All the starving have as shelter is a rusty piece of iron.

COME ON PEOPLE CANT YOU SEE THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD?

Murthy - Jun. 28, 2008

Wow..!!! It's very amazing!