1) Matt Finke and Timo Weinhold’s Darmstadt unter Strom Panorama Projection

I remember seeing this in a lecture in one of my architecture studios and happened to stumble across it again today. I think that this is a really interesting interface between technological, 2d imaging and 3d architecture and space. The projections that I find most interesting are those towards the beginning and those about 5 or so minutes into the video, where the projections themselves actually begin to suggest the 3d space that exists within the building, behind the dominating facade. I think this is a really cool way to suggest a building’s experience through its facade alone, which sometimes does not give any indication on the space behind it. You’ll notice as you watch the video that it goes back and forth between the actual live projection and the digitized version of projection. I hate to say that the digitized version is much more suggestive than the live version and which that there was a way to bridge that gap in quality better.

2) 555 KUBIK: How it Would be, if a House Was Dreaming

This is another projection of a building facade that I think is much more successful. The suggestion of 3d is much more prominent and impressive in this project, only to be enhanced by the use of sound. The project is therefore very engaging to its viewers. One criticism would be that I wish it was a little more related to the building behind the facade; I didn’t feel like I was getting a sense of the space the same way I did with the first project. That being said however, I think the public space is extremely enhanced by the projection and that the facade does being to connect more with the people inside that public space.

3) LM3LAB’s AirStrike

http://www.lm3labs.com/blog2/category/airstrike/

This project is also related to the idea of using 2d to suggest 3d. It utilizes a 2d clear screen that appears to create holographic interactive images. This technology is neat because it is interactive, almost creating a “physical” image. It stands out from interactive projects that are purely projection onto a surface because of its holographic nature. I think that is it obvious from the video that certain images lend themselves more to the holographic effect than others, for instance the one at the very beginning of the video is quite impressive.