Media Facade Research

1 After Deconstructivism 1988-92

1.3A A New Paradigm P.32-33

Rem Koolhaas, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, competition, 1989
"The building interacts with the surrounding city using a large facade, designed like a giant projection screen, visible from the sloping plaza created above the entrance to the railway station."(P.24 Wiley, 2008)

"It is from Marshall McLuhan, the genial Canadian media researcher, that Ito takes his reflection on the centrality, in a society based on both electronics and information, of the meaning of the tactile and the importance of the skin: a sensible epidermis that wraps buildings and allows for interaction between the domestic environment and urban space, absorbing lights, sounds and flows and returning them as images and vital tensions." (P.24-25 Wiley, 2008)

Design Competition in 1986

Book:-
New Directions in Contemporary Architecture:
Evolutions and Revolutions in Building Design Since 1988
Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi

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