Automation_Fenestration

Skywall

ambient intelligence

SELM VIDEO

Inconvenient studio at the Witte Museum, Build it!

On Saturday 23, 2008, inconvenient studio presented a series of their work as part of a legobotics exhibition at the Witte Museum. An enthusiastic and very diverse crowd was entertained by the different exhibition groups' work. The Inconvenient studio had the opportunity to share and discuss ideas with a vast variety of people. Adults and children gathered around the four projects (SELM, Skywall, Visual Rhythm, and Automation Fenestration) and as they said got to experience something new and fun. This without a doubt was a great opportunity for the members of the inconvenient studio to interact and present ideas to a crowd outside of the architecture field. The input received is now being taken into consideration to further develop the projects.

jorge sets up  and gets ready to test SELM as the people begin to show up.  

lynette and liz prepare and practice their ideas to better inform the crowd.

skywall group starts to have fun trying different colors and a small goldfish cracker, children loved it!

The members of each group take turns with the brick to better organize the event.

Lynette shows the inside mechanism of Visual Rhythm as questions and comments begin.

Aaron shows a concept model of Automation Fenestration.

Jose waits as lynette finishes using the brick so he can begin skywall's demonstration

kids were the best critics of the work, some of them had never seen legos being used like this.

new technologies and reality

On Wednesday February 13th Dr. Cory Hallam visited the College of Architecture to lecture our i_studio. Dr. Hallam is the Director of the UTSA Center of Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship. The lecture covered information about the MIT's Aeronautical building design, and entrepreneurship within architecture.
The class will attend the Entrepreneurship Boot Camp on March 24th at the 1604 campus.

Skywall Video 2

This is a video from the final model of skywall.

In this video, you can observe the change of color of the wall, representing the sky.
The wall will change every time the color sensor picks up a change in the sky,
it will then translate it to the wall. This provides information to the user in a more
interactive fashion. Possible add ons could be sound and pattern, through
the use of thermochromic and electrochromic fabrics.