a:p Chromatophoric Architecture

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Architecture

ISBN: 9783939633969
English/German edition
Jovis Verlag
Paperback, 112 pages
17 x 20 cm
colour
January 2010
€20,75 (excl. VAT)

a:p Chromatophoric Architecture

Designing for 3D Media Facades

M. Hank Haeusler

Series: architektur:positionen

Future facades will become three-dimensional displays. New developments in display technology, so called voxels, allow revolutionary architectural expressions. Whereas spatial expressions until present were determined by the physical attributes of the building material, voxel displays will shift these borders. An intangible material, light points, defines space and allows surface attributes, such as: dynamic relief, multi-layered surface, decay function, privileged perspective, movement and speed and design process. By the example of spectacular contemporary projects, the book presents recent developments of three-dimensional display technology, showing its significance for our understanding of space and architecture.