On Saturday, we installed an LED canopy and custom screen setup for the Blueprint 12th Anniversary Party at the Commodore Ballroom. The event featured acts Steve Aoki and MSTRKRFT and was sponsored by Red Bull. The show was a blast, and while we didn’t get to document it much, I did find these fantastic photos from David Lang’s site. The LED Canopy is built of 16 panels each 20″ by 96″. Each of the panels can be hung individually or combined in any orientation.
The video screens are custom built 40″ squares that create two 10′ x 10′ screens. It’s always fun to work with irregular screen shapes and especially screens that are made of a selection of smaller screens.
Some short clips are below the photos.
Check out the full post with more picture on David Lang’s site.
The LED screen that we installed at Venue in Vancouver has been receiving plenty of great comments. In the month or so since we installed the wall, we’ve been busy programming it and tweaking it to make it look even better.
Check out the photos we’ve found from a variety of blogs and websites.
November 7, 2008 at 11:06 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Urban Visuals created another interactive model control system for the St. Regis development in Las Vegas. The 50 story high rise condo will be located between the Palazzo and the Venetian hotel on the Vegas Strip, and the preview sales centre is in one of the penthouse suites of the Palazzo hotel, overlooking the building site, as well as much of Las Vegas.
The control system uses an Arduino control board and two custom built 256 channel LED control boxes. The Flash based touch interface (built by Lightroom), communicates with a Processing application which sends commands to the ardiuno and the LED controllers.
The fantastic model was built by The Model Shop in Vancouver, and included individual LEDs for each of it’s 422 suites. Each suite can be individually illuminated, as well as each floor, groups of several floors and random suite illumination (as shown). Light animations also light the entire building suite by suite or floor by floor.
The touch screen with the model in the reflection.
For a recent project for the Puerto Cancun development in Mexico we designed a lighting system that illuminates the interior of an exhibit theatre space according to colours in the video presentation.
Two switches on the wall allow a sales person to choose between playing back English and Spanish versions of the presentation, which when pressed, dim the architectural lighting and begin the show.
Six channels of full colour LED lights follow along with the video, washing the front wall of the theatre with rich light.
March 5, 2008 at 8:04 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
For the Century house re-design we worked with the interior designers to integrate LED lighting into portions of the interior. Our favorite part was the creation ‘animated fabric’ wall panels, where we brought the panels to life by illumination and animation. The result was a wall of animated dots that would randomly appear within the pattern of the fabric, the animated dots can appear in any colour and respond to sound or user input via a touch screen across the room.
March 2, 2008 at 3:23 pm · Filed under Introductory
In our recent projects we have ventured for a fusion between digital media and the physical features of a space to give it a changeable atmosphere. We believe that buildings and spaces can express a mood, a tone and an energy level. This we see as the initial layer in creating expressive and informative interiors and facades. Collaboration with Architects and interior designers is essential to our goals, this is how our own design process comes to life.
The ubiquitous nature of LED lighting & digital media have made it as malleable as mortar to the building process, in a sense it is on the way to becoming another building technology.
There are many ways to use light and materials, the latest generation of LED’s allow designers
to have lighting where it was not practical or possible before. Above is a typical light/ materials brief (in this case) showing how light can interact with Lucite.
