MAB23

Spatial Animacy 2021, Japan, Tokyo

Interactive Kinetic Origami Surface

Spatial Animacy is an interactive kinetic installation, exploring kinesthetic empathy and perceived animacy in architectural space. Reflecting concepts of Augmented Materiality and Animism, human and space are fused in a kinesthetic, meditative spatial experience.

Spatial Animacy is an interactive kinetic origami surface, exploring kinesthetic empathy and perceived animacy in architectural space. In a High-Tech x Slow-Craft philosophy, a hand-folded origami surface is animated by a network of actuators using real-time spatial sensing (depth cameras). Translating proxemics into kinetic patterns, this artificial micro-landscape resonates our inner states in material space through a kinetic vocabulary of organic, life-like motion. Reflecting concepts of Augmented Materiality and Animism, human and space are fused in a kinesthetic, meditative spatial experience.

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Details

Architecture : Harry Krekoukiotis

Project artist/ concept/ design/ planning : Harry Krekoukiotis

Facade design : Harry Krekoukiotis

Facade construction : Harry Krekoukiotis, Lincoln He, Ana Alipass Fernandez

Kinetic engineering : Yoichi Kamiyama

Light design : Ana Alipass Fernandez

Project co-ordination : Kouta Minamizawa, Keio Media Design, Embodied Media

Membrane skin : Sakase Adtech Co., Ltd.

Interaction design/ programming : Harry Krekoukiotis / Yoichi Kamiyama

Project sponsor/ support : Panasonic Auglab

Descriptions

Facade type and geometry (structure) : Resch triangular origami tesselation on Triaxial Woven Fabric, animated by distributed mechanical actuators.

Participatory architecture & urban interaction

Mediacredits

Harry Krekoukiotis - KMD Embodied Media - Panasonic Auglab