Bustler is an online forum that publishes architecture and design competition and event listings. Memory Cloud has been profiled twice by the site, both before and after installation of this creation from Metalab and RE:Site.

We are developing custom patterns and colors for the Market Kiosks currently under development for the Greater East End Navigation Blvd. Esplanade.  The traditional technique of die-cutting stacks of colored paper with cultural icons is scaled up and rendered in powder-coated sheet metal.  The shelters will provide dappled light to the public space below.  The units are paired with a version of the pattern as a gradient perforation in the adjacent kiosk.

Memory Cloud finite element analysis model from Insite Structures, Brad Dougherty and Justin Smith.

16 hrs, a dead winch, chain hoist and a bent pully later...

Each tube assembly is made up of a different quantity of modules determined by the algorithm that originally shaped the cloud.  Disk luminaires starting to go in.

After a pause to reset the winch we lifted the canopy, installed the first LED tube modules and tested for power and data continuity.

We developed a custom interlocking raceway system aligned to allow the LED tubes to canilever off the rib canopy to suspend through the voids into the space below.  The raceways manage high voltage, low voltage and data cables through a network of power and data distribution arranged in "universes".  These arrangements are then used to program the pixels in the cloud into DMX data lists that the 3D animation get mapped into.  All layers of the cloud can be used with a singular animation sequence or each can be programmed separately as distinct layers.

Memory Cloud installation is well underway at TAMU MSC.  We offloaded Monday morning, assembled and test lifted by noon and had the raceway system installed by the end of the day.  TyART did the heavy lifting with us.  

An article on Memory Cloud from Texas A&M's student newspaper The Battalion  features student anectodes about the hanging work of art.