A design project report of iLight / Light Dam by innoCirque New Media Co. The paper was presented in Universitas Indonesia in [in]arch international conference themed 'Interiority and Interior Architecture' on Sep.10th 2014

1. A building block approach
for assembling
interactive
media architectural installations
Ting-Han Chen
Chang-Chih Tseng
Ching-Chih Chan
innoCirque New Media Co. Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Interiority and Interior Architecture

2. A building block approach
for assembling
interactive
media architectural installations
Keywords: media architecture, interactive architecture,
Interaction design, media façade, lighting design

4. Architecture has become an inhabitable interface that
communicates information and responds to its surroundings
thanks to physical computing technologies.
After: realities:united, Transreflex, 2013; photo: realities:united

5. A strand of design research, generally known as 'interactive
architecture' (Bullivant, 2005) or 'media architecture' (Schoch,
2007), has been carried out in practice by several noted
architects and artists for years…
Illustration of Responsive Architecture: A Project by Tristan d'Estree Sterk,
The Office for Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau for Responsive Architecture ORAMBRA (2005)

6. INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE, Paris, France (1981 – 1987).
Architecture: Jean Nouvel, Gilbert Lézénès, Pierre Soria, Architecture Studio. Image © Georges

7. Daan Roosegaarde’s Flow 5.0

8. Wall modular lighting system LivingShapes interactive wall - Philips Lumiblade

9. With the flourishing developments in interactive
media architecture, corresponding new architectural
compositions and designs also need to be explored
further.

10. With the flourishing developments in interactive
media architecture, corresponding new architectural
compositions and designs also need to be explored
further.
How can we develop a flexible interactive media architectural
system that has the ability to assemble a variety of architectural
forms to fit different site conditions?
How can physical computing technology better facilitate designers
with building blocks as they search to implement media
architectural installations in various forms?

11. Six-Fourty by Four-Eighty
(Marcelo et al, 2011)
Media Block Chair
by TeamLab (2012)
Tangible Pixels
(Wen et al, 2012)

13. Input: Infra-red sensor
40 x 40 x 40 cm
Output: LED strip
Inflatable polyurethane with a matte surface
An acrylic tube

26. Design process:
1. Conception
2. Simulation
3. Prototyping
4. Implementation
5. Installation

27. The video:
The Light Dam│iLight
Marina Bay 2012 Singapore
https://vimeo.com/39383277

38. After: https://www.facebook.com/pages/PieceDuino/1446536828948164

40. Possible applications:
1. As a communicative media
2. As an ambient awareness partition
3. As an information shelf
4. As a playful landscape

41. Future directions:
1. A more completed design system
2. A new type of furniture for interior design

42. innoCirque New Media

43. Thank you for your attention!
Ting-Han Chen
Chang-Chih Tseng
Ching-Chih Chan
innoCirque New Media Co. Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Interiority and Interior Architecture