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Nanshan Art Museum Facade

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:57:45 +0000

In collaboration with Szövetség 39 and Gábor Papp, we have developed a conception for a unique facade design to be installed on the facade of Nanshan Art Museum in Shenzhen, China.

The idea behind it is that the graphical output is generated by sound. We are about to compose a mix out of art-historically relevant pieces of music, talks, poems and sound art samples. The audio source builds the input for our software that transfers it into vector based graphics.The graphical output is divided into segments and will be printed on laminating foil to be applied on the glass panels. The production of the project is planned for 2010.

POW! at New York Design Week

admin — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:54:25 +0000

In collaboration with G-Lab we started POW! – a new venture in order to develop and offer interactive architectural installations. We have been invited to “Soft Is The New Cool” exhibition at New York Design Week where we show the current state of our responsiv lighting research project. We have organized a bunch of meetings with architects and interaction designers and will present them our works and ideas of future collaborations.

Mic Moss

tszakal — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:20:17 +0000

The Mic Moss is a modular system (under development) made of a special cladding material that can be altered by any kind of sound. Equipped with small microphones the surface continuously “listens” to its environment. Each microphone has a heating pad attached to it, which is able to heat up the plate within a certain radius. The plate – covered with thermochromatic pigments – will change its color depending on the steel plate heating up or cooling down. By that, the surface becomes an imprint of the acoustic noises in its environment. The system consists of 2 by 1 meter steel plates that can be connected to build a larger surface.

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Deep

tszakal — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:10:30 +0000

This product (under development) is a motion sensitive lighting system with a special lens filled with fluid silicone.

As the light goes through the liquid, every small vibration changes the light beam through refraction. The device is equipped with a motion sensor which controls a DC motor inside the lamp. When someone enters the area under the lamp, the vibration caused by the motor generates small waves in the tank, which are projected to the floor. Installed in a grid in a larger space, it results in a beautifully immerse floor projection, though it works in small spaces as well.

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Pannon Art Project

tszakal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:16:22 +0000

Pannon, one of the leading telecommunication companies in Hungary is about to build a new Headquarter near Budapest which they would like to fill with innovative works. They have asked artists and designers to collect ideas and submit an application. Together with Szovetseg’39 and Geppetto we have proposed 8 artworks and environments for different places. However our ideas have been selected by the curators, their management unfortunately could not get into it.

Wind-animated Facade (Proposal)

tszakal — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:53:43 +0000

We have developed a concept and a prototype for an office building facade. The idea was to fill the 1000 sqm glass surface with small steel panels in order to create a dynamic surface that is reflecting to the flow of air.

Reorient: The Grand Baldachin

tszakal — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:27:40 +0000

The project is the 2nd recycled version of Reorient, our installation for the 2006 Architecture Biennale in Venice. Among other parts of the work we were especially responsible for the “Sound Cell Muscles” installation. 1000 small speakers playing a composition by Pierre Foldes made of sound fragments from Budapest’s Chinese markets. Sound travels on the gate’s surface.

Movie by Adam Somlai-Fischer

Traffic Responsive Lighting System

tszakal — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:35:26 +0000

We have developed a lighting system for the facade of an office building which is controlled by noise of the traffic. The system consists of glass panels with integrated and invisible white LEDs, a DMX lighting control unit, a custom made sound processing PCB and an Arduino board that controls the effects.

Flight Nr. 6012 (Proposal)

tszakal — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:35:48 +0000

This project is a proposal for a special artwork for a building called Airport Office Centre very close to Ferihegy Airport in Budapest based on a simple idea. The main approach was to connect the wings of the house with a huge shadow of an aeroplane by selecting all the meterials in the appropriate colour. That meas that the walls would have benn covered with darker cladding, the garden would have covered with darker grass, the fontain with dark-blue mosaic, etc.

Environment Responsive Kinetic Facade

tszakal — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:33:49 +0000

The project is part of a complex design work at a hotel (architects: Peter Sugar, Laszlo Benczur) right by the riverside in Budapest, which is a responsive glass facade system consisting of 150 unequally processed panels. The entire surface is moving permanently as well as illuminating by night according to environmental influences around the building. Controlled by weather sensors the facade responds to changes of wind, temperature and light conditions. While the light is flowing slowly like the river, wind triggers contrast and temperature alters the color range. The result is a symbiosis between architecture, design and the environment.