Living Light

LIVING LIGHT by David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang: "The Living".

HINT: Permanent outdoor pavilion.

"is a permanent outdoor pavilion in the heart of Seoul with a dynamic skin that glows and blinks in response to both data about air quality and public interest in the environment. The skin of the pavilion is a giant map of Seoul with the 27 neighborhood (gu) boundaries redrawn based on existing air quality sensors of the Korean Ministry of Environment—each shape in this new map encloses the air closest to one of the sensors. Then the map illuminates to become an interactive, environmental building facade. Citizens can enter the pavilion or view it from nearby streets and buildings, and they can text message the building and it will text them back."*

*from www.livinglightseoul.net

Adaptive Facade

ADAPTIVE FACADE by Marilena Skavara

HINT: Facade that adapt to its environment.

"‘Adaptive Fa[ca]de’ explores the functional possibilities and performative characteristics of cellular automata (CA). In addition to the unique emergent behaviour of CA, a neural network enables a further computational layer to evolve CA behaviour to the context of its surrounding environment."*

*from Adapative Architecture and Computation programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture.