THINKING OUT LOUD. UP HOUSEcontinued |
Vanda is keen to begin programming the Filter and Expression sections of the computer package. Filter controls the desired intensity and patterning of incident light entering the house, by manipulating the electrochromic layers of the buildings membrane. Beautiful dynamic dappled patterns can be programmed or selected as well as simple block filter patterns, cycled and timed to suit daily routines and seasonal changes or just keyed to desired temperature performance. Multiple patterns can be programmed using a simple menu interface. Additional energy and security modes can be selected for times when the house senses that it is empty. |
The most exciting part of the program is Expression. This program controls the OLED and liquid crystal membrane coatings and allows Vanda to program the colour, pattern and visual 'texture' of the buildings surface. She is familiar with the program, as she has played with them at her friends' houses, setting up for parties or just experimenting. The effects can range from awful faux Georgian or Neo-classic detailing to shifting abstract patterns of colour or text or photography. She is already planning the visual performance she wants to play on the faade for her own house warming party. She has sourced some wild new pattern programs from the internet. |
They will allow her to achieve an effect across the building surface like the reflection of sunlight off water. She plans to punctuate these effects with embarrassing large-scale detail shots of her closest friends and some of her favourite lines of poetry. She looks forward to gradually crafting, accreting and evolving a character for the house, one not set by others in stone but dynamic, of her own making and one that allows her to more fully express and celebrate events important to her, festivals for her friends and neighbours. In a high rise urban context this facility of architecture functions like a kind of electronic garden or follie. As the trucks pull away at dusk she prepares an expresso in the kitchen and puts her feet up on the deck outside listening to the waves above the trees. |
Michael Trudgeon, David Poulton, Anthony Kitchener |
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