Tag: 2007

Future Vision, Microsoft Office Labs, 2004-

Project page

 

Light for Cities, Urrike Brandi et al, 2007

AMAZON

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. Process
    • Concept Development
    • Efficiency and Performance Profiles
    • Implementation
    • Lamps and Luminaires
  • 2. Typology
    • Traveling by Car
      • Main roads and side streets
      • Bridges
      • Roundabouts
      • Traffic signals
      • Multi-storey car parks
      • Car parks
      • Petrol(gas) stations
      • Stop and go
      • P70
    • On Foot
      • Squares
      • Footpaths and sidewalks
      • Trees
      • Facades and illuminated advertising
      • Shop windows
      • Underground stations
      • Boulevards
    • Design Principles and Technologies
  • 3. Completed Scheme
  • 4. Developments
    • Light and Shadow in the Public Realm: Past and Present
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Imprint

Daylight Window, Philips, (from Simplicity event at 2007)

from Philips’s Youtube Channel

The full presentation of the Philips Daylight Window concept, shown at the Simplicity Event 2007 at Earls Court in London.

(memo Sep20th2011)
around 3min, a scenario which considers light color effect for sleeping, adjusting jetlag and waking up is mentioned with some medical information/evidence such as cerotonine production.

The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design, Ronald Lee Fleming, 2007



Book Description
ISBN-10: 185894371X | ISBN-13: 978-1858943718 | Publication Date: April 1, 2007
This expertly researched book makes a radical case for accessible public art that fosters a powerful civic experience of connection to place. The author advocates narrative, site-specific public art that engages the popular imagination through common references to history, folklore, culture and geography, and demonstrates how the integration of approachable art with local landscape, architecture and urban design can facilitate identification with locale. Dozens of case studies of spectacular and innovative works throughout the United States are accompanied by practical information, cost and policy analysis, artist interviews, examples of failures and major controversies, and strategies for the future, making this book an essential reference for anyone involved with transforming and improving our public spaces. “The Art of Placemaking” features public art projects since the 1990s, including the integration of public art in urban design, historic interpretation, street furniture, transit-station and roadway-corridor design, mural towns and more, making this title an invaluable resource for artists, architects, urban planners and teachers, as well as non-professionals seeking to bring art into their communities.

Flexible: Architecture that Responds to Change, Robert Kronenburg, 2007

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1856694615

Product Description

Flexible architecture adapts to new uses, responds to change rather than stagnating, and is motive rather than static. Understanding how it has been conceived, designed, made, and used helps us understand its potential in solving current and future problems associated with technological, social, and economic change. This book explores the whole genre of fl exible architecturebuildings that are intended to respond to evolving situations in their form, operation, or location. Crossing the boundaries between architecture, interior design, product design, and furniture design, this innovative book is the first to deal with the entire scope of the topic.

About the Author

Robert Kronenburg is professor at the University of Liverpool. He has written a number of books, including Portable Architecture, Houses in Motion: The Genesis, History and Development of the Portable Building, and Spirit of the Machine: Technology as an Inspiration in Architectural Design.

4dsocial: Interactive Design Environments, Lucy Bullivant, 2007

http://www.amazon.com/4dsocial-Interactive-Design-Environments-Architectural/dp/0470319119/ref=pd_sim_b_5

Product Description

A new breed of public interactive installations is taking root that overturns the traditional approach to artistic experience. Architects, artists and designers are now creating real-time interactive projects at very different scales and in many different guises. Some dominate public squares or transform a building’s façade – others are more intimate, like wearable computing. All, though, share in common the ability to draw in users to become active participants and co-creators of content, so that the audience becomes part of the project.Investigating further the paradoxes that arise from this new responsive media at a time when communication patterns are in flux, this title features the work of leading designers, such as Electroland, Usman Haque, Shona Kitchen and Ben Hooker, ONL, Realities United Scott Snibbe. While many works critique the narrow public uses of computing to control people and data, others raise questions about public versus private space in urban contexts; all attempt to offer a unique, technologically mediated form of ‘self-learning’ experience, but which are most effective concepts in practice?