In the Air
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In the Air is a visualisation project which aims to make visible the microscopic and invisible agents of Madrid´s air (gases, particles, pollen, diseases, etc), to see how they perform, react and interact with the rest of the city. I am particularly interested by this project namely due to the provocation that environmental data (not just pollution) relating to the living, breathing city could be mapped spatially – possibly even in realtime (this particular data is sourced hourly from the Ayuntamiento de Madrid) - and viewed via the Web or through AR. Of course a real benefit would be for this to be part of the semantic city where the data can be used beyond purely visual means perhaps enabling city-wide Building Management Systems (BMS) to actively respond to changing conditions.
Developed at Visualizar’08 and directed by José Luis de Vicente at Medialab-Prado, the team propose that the data feeds a physical prototype called a “diffuse façade,” a massive indicator of the air’s components through a changing cloud that serves to “blur the architecture with the atmosphere it has invaded.”
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION 1. Organic colourant used for deserts  |
