Information-driven, Live Data LED Media Wall
Situated sensing technologies have created unprecedented ways with which to achieve a new synchronous relationship with the world. According to Portland-based design practice SoftRigid, the ability to observe the behavior of our environment through orchestration of high-tech sensing devices displayed through dynamic architectural interfaces will enable a new form of environmental perception. SoftRigid’s installation Dynamic Performance of Nature embodies this ethos by utilizing an array of locally- and globally-distributed open-source environmental sensing devices integrated with a dynamic and communicative material assembly.
The project captures live data about weather such as wind speed and direction, temperature and relative humidity, and other measurable environmental phenomena such as seismic activity, from around the world and translates it through full-color LED lighting embedded within semi-translucent HDPE. The installation communicates this information to museum visitors via custom processing scripts that display the information in illuminated flows of varying color, intensity, and direction which respond to the unique geometry of the wall’s overall form. According to the manufacturer, the assembly is designed to create an inspiring and informative user experience that imparts to its visitors this ethos of 21st-century sustainability, seeking to transcend conventional applications of green techniques with something alive and integrated with the environment, connecting people to place through a synthesis of information, material, and architecture.
Contact: SoftRigid, Portland, OR, USA.
