CLOUD CODE “Cloud Code” in the City of Houston Permitting Center is a conduit and real-time display of the occupancy, activity, and air quality in the building. The interaction of occupants within the physical space of the public areas is measured and displayed as civic art.   A rear-projection display of animated graphics is generated by a network of meshed micro-sensors housed in custom fabricated enclosures. The occupants feed data to processing software that Metalab coded for the project. The activity creates a cloud-like indication of indoor air quality in the first floor public area of the building. In addition to air quality and occupancy, other qualitative aspects of the building such as movement and ambient sound are graphically represented in an abstracted floor plan.  

Our latest project with Matthew Geller has been on the server for a while but is now out for final pricing.  Three columns that mimic the infrastructure in the nearby WWII shipyards hold up a parametrically optimized waffle grid roof and suspend a 12' communal swing.  It will occupy a hillside overlooking San Francisco Bay looking north toward the Bay Bridge.

"Cloud Code" in the City of Houston Permitting Center is a conduit and real-time display of the occupancy, activity, and air quality in the building. The interaction of occupants within the physical space of the public areas is measured and displayed as civic art. A rear-projection display of animated graphics is generated by a network of meshed micro-sensors housed in custom fabricated enclosures. The occupants feed data to processing software that Metalab coded for the project. The activity creates a cloud-like indication of indoor air quality in the first floor public area of the building. In addition to air quality and occupancy, other qualitative aspects of the building such as movement and ambient sound are graphically represented in an abstracted floor plan.

Our first PV-POD application has been installed on the roof of the new Houston Permitting Center opening soon.  The building will house the new Green Building Resource Center and the roof will be viewable from penthouse in the central staircase.  This installation will expand with to include more solar and wind turbines on the roof.

We've installed the first large-scale groPOD garden for the Volunteers of America on North Yale St. in Houston. The 64 units were installed on a Saturday with volunteer labor.

Culture Map Houston advertises the AIA Houston 2011 Artist of the Year Exhibition opener, FORECAST

Vlad Tenu's Minimal Complexity wins TEX-FAB's second annual REPEAT Digital Fabrication Competition. Fabrikator is a weekly newsletter about digital fabrication projects disseminated by Architect's Newspaper.