Aether Architecture

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Panoramic Wifi Camera creates a live panoramic image of a space seen through Wifi radio and other 2.4 GHz radio signals – how they bounce back form the architecture, composing an image, just as light would do. At NTT/ICC Tokyo.

Exhibition about our work, methodologies, collaborations, and some actual experiments.

Scattered House is an architectural experiment founded on a truly contemporary notion of space, where issues of ubiquitous connectivity, family diasporas, design-by-occupant, and public control technology come together in an installation assembled from inexpensive electronic toys and gadgets.

Wifi Camera reveals the electromagnetic space of our devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular our wifi networks which are increasingly found in coffee shops, offices and homes throughout cities of the developed world. We will take real time “photos” of wifi space

The Reconfigurable House 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.

Sound Cell Mussels magnetizing the main gate, Penguin Walkie Talkies singing modulated radio noise, kinetic skeletons of stuffed animals in a forest of LED tentacles, all at the Hungarian Institute in Paris

Aleph Reflection Remapping at Belsay Hall, UK, with Bengt Sjölén. Open until Sept 07. Aleph is an experimental public display, that is using the spaces, people and objects it faces as a palette to display messages from hidden viewpoints.

with Bengt Sjölén

The Reconfigurable House 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.

Kitchen Budapest, opening in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.

Wifi Camera reveals the electromagnetic space of our devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular our wifi networks which are increasingly found in coffee shops, offices and homes throughout cities of the developed world. We will take real time “photos” of wifi space.

All mobile phone users have the opportunity to reach a friend almost anywhere and anytime. However, apart from the traditional use of our phones, we have other opportunities as well to communicate with our environment. BlueSpot provides a new form of communal communication for us.

Our project, “re:orient – migrating architectures” explores the local aspects of China’s global significance and increasing influence. The project seeks to forecast possibilities which are now detectable only in connection with retail, but which will, in all likelihood, determine the built environment, which transforms under the pressure of ever-cheaper products. The project follows up these ideas with the presentation of spaces, architectural devices and materials that create new contents, and indicate ways of turning these constraints of the market to our benefit, show how to infuse the mass products, which are designed to have a short life-span, with lasting cultural values.

Prototpyes for expressive interfaces for public use of mobile phones. As these phones function as part of our personal expressions today, why not develop an interaction language which can be spectacular as well?

PGL is built up from 300 radio networked, solar powered, self sustainable intelligent analogue pixels, that are placed on a 20 by 20 meters grid. These pixels function in the bright sunshine, and are interfacing the people walking in the grid.

Our system made searching in the NDA archives a social-experience by visualizing other visitors’ search and browsing activity, and developing this ‘cloud’ of cultural content alongside the active visitors choices and interest.

This report describes the results of a collaborative research project to develop a suite of low-tech sensors and actuators that might be useful for artists and architects working with interactive environments. With this project we hoped to consolidate a number of different approaches we had found ourselves taking in our own work and develop both a “kit-of-parts” and a more conceptual framework for producing such works.

While roaming in Europe, Budapest Heat regularly receives SMS messages to stay updated on the current temperature in Budapest, than tries to apply this temperature to its local environment.

BrainMirror is an interactive experience where the image of the visitors brain appears mixed with his/her mirror image, using natural head movement as an interface to explore volumetric visuals of the human brain.

more soon…

A 300X300X600 cm self-tensioned structure made out of fishing rods, plastic strings, led weights, lambing gums and metal rings. As projection surface we used double-folded cash register paper rolls that where hanging in the necessary parabolic shapes for the exact projection.

Distributed Projection Structure is an architecture prototype where physical matter is animated by algorithmic light. Testing the limits of architectural constructions reaching the precision and resolution of media as well as how much media can become actual, and directly interact with our bodies.

Qualities of virtual spaces are building up social conditions that architecture should respond to, the actual gets blurred with the virtual, local with the global, and our perception of space and architecture is going through major transformations. Therefore it is important to develop a more refined relation between the two realities, something beyond the visually pleasing representational VR, something that also affects back to our world.

A zooming user interface based navigation system which arranges an large knowledge about genetic research base into a playful and comprehendable structure and experience.

An architecture prototype looking into ways of treating digital media as physical matter: the surface of a computer projection is unfolded onto a translucent structure, becoming a spatial experience for the visitors. Layers of digital information, behavior and ambience are sharing projection territories, and creating a vision for a non-screen based computer environment.

A virtual structure designed through physical modelling, by informing the virtual with qualities of a physical model. The structure is responsive, it is aware of the visitors presence and redefines its geometry dependent on the visitors position. This structure functions as a navigation system for the website Allende Arquitectos in Madrid.

The social habits for an architecture as media are already existing with the use of mobile phones, Internet, and so on. This condition makes these issues relevant for architects, looking into how material qualities can be extended through media and how this can mediate local spaces to distant spaces.

The RemoteHome will be one place of living in two distant cities: London and Berlin. Communication and media technologies are creating new scenarios of sharing situations of friendship and intimacy over distance. The rise of the mobile phone or instant messaging is indicating these new cultures.

Biofeedback instrument mediating music to dance. A backpack, that turns the dance of the person wearing it into music. We have tested and documented on 20 people from the streets of Vienna and Budapest. Something that today is more and more defined by editors at remote locations, is generated by the physical movement of your own body.

A text composed by displacement. The history of a travel. Discover the dynamics of the spiral, moving around of an interior landscape, always getting further from the centre and returning to the principles. Advance in the infinite Mobius space, repeating the same course, continuously passing through the appearing and disappearing sequence of drawings and texts.