red screen
by Åsmund Gamlesæter and Gabor Papp
About
RED Screen captures and displays the life of the three inhabitants of an experimental student house developed and built by TreStykker, in Trondheim, Norway. The facade has 3200 red uniquely controlled superflux LEDs carved into its surface, with a small diffuser in front of each LED. Activity inside of the house generates images that are shown on the facade.

In this project the facade is a mediator between inside (private) and outside (public). The RED Screen may be truthful and display what is actually going on inside, or it may be deceiving and show something from its memory.

The RED Screen project is the second piece in an ongoing research of architectural space that is adaptive to, and making computation on, input by its inhabitants. Read about a previous installation, Living Wall, in the same series.


Open Source
A simulator developed for the project works as a shell for others to programme for the facade. It can be downloaded here. We encourage the public to develop projects for the simulator.



Events
March 16th - March 23th, 2006: A fully functional prototype (a fragment of the work) and diagrams were exhibited Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.

May 6th, 2006: Opening of the project at Verftsgata 2, Trondheim.



Press
Anne-Lise Aakervik. Når teknologien møter arkitekten og vice versa, Arkitektnytt, nr 19, Nov 29, 2005.


Blog mentions
letiziajaccheri, January 12, 2006.

  
Stills
Drawings

Plan drawing


Elevation drawing


Assembly

Partners

        


Sponsors










The project is supported by

Thanks: Professor Letizia Jaccheri, Associate Professor Pauline Haddow, Postdoctor Gunnar Tufte, Architect Pablo Miranda, Finn Magnus Rasmussen, Alexander Berman, Magnus Andersen, Marius Grannæs, Guttorm Aase, Olav Gulling, Terje Øfsdahl, Pasi Aalto.