This is the Digital Water Pavilion , designed by a bunch of MIT brainiacs for Expo Zaragoza in Spain next year . Its walls are curtains of piddle controlled by package which , in turn , contain valves that allow the water to make disruption at specific positioning .
The pavilion , which will house a cafe , public area , and exposition space , will be covered by a ceiling that turn down in the event of too much wind , and the front of the edifice will be used as a display screenland , with text , pictures and design all being made by the water .
liquidity pixels is the idiomatic expression being bandied about here . “ To understand the concept of digital H2O , reckon something like an inkjet printer on a prominent graduated table , which controls droplets of falling water , ” explains Carlo Ratti , who is the head of MIT ’s SENSEable City Laboratory .
wizard hooey . The technology behind all of this is so sophisticated that detector will detect the approach of people and part the water , rather like Moses was meant to have done in the Red Sea , so that they can enter the building at any part of the wall .
The project , which is to be undertake with about a gazillion partners ( match the credits Sir Frederick Handley Page on the water pavilion ’s site , it ’s not dissimilar to the credit rating in Lord Of The Rings ) is to illustrate the electric potential of digital water as a medium . William J. Mitchell , the read/write head of MIT ’s Design Laboratory , calls the pavilion “ provocative , ” claim that it subverts fundamental computer architecture rules . I ’ll just baby-sit there undecided - mouthed and dribble .
[ Digital Water PavillionandMITviaBoing Boing ]
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