New digital media such as animated light façades, façade projections or interactive light installations currently alter social dynamics and communications in urban space. Within this media architecture aims to merge built form and digital media to augment the existing architectural context with socially relevant information.

1. Media Architecture:
Challenges, Prototypes and
Interactivity
Alexander Wiethoff
Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
Media Informatics Lab
Human-Computer Interaction Group

2. Low-resolution illuminant façade
© Robert Halbe

3. Low-resolution illuminant façade
© realities:united

4. Odenplan
A framework for designing complex media facades. Design Studies, Elsevier.

5. Standard Method: Scale Model

6. Observations/Motivation

7. Helping people co-design:
Sketching-with-Light

8. Sketching-with-Light
11th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, Yokohama, Japan

10. Integrating Media in the Urban
Environment:
Hybrid Media Display

11. Hybrid Media Display
Munich 2015

14. Interacting with Builings:
iRiS

15. Interaction Techniques

16. iRiS
29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

17. Everyday-Object: Interactive Lighter
© Marius Hoggenmüller

18. Video: Interactive Lighter in the Lab
© Marius Hoggenmüller

19. Thank You!
alexander.wiethoff@ifi.lmu.de
www.medien.ifi.lmu.de