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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.

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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Reconfigurable House 2

tszakal — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:11:58 +0000

After the first version of Reconfigurable House by Adam Somlai-Fischer and Usman Haque at NTT/ICC and Reorient at the Venice Bieanal of Architecture by the Reorient team we took part in building the Reconfigurable House 2.0 in Belgium at Z33.

The project is an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors. The project is a critique of ubiquitous computing “smart homes”, which are based on the idea that technology should be invisible to prevent DIY.

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.