explorative environments

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By searching for an low cost device to build up a wireless sensor and actor infrastructure for the next generation Exploration System, to provide more freedom and handiness, I found the Zigbee technique to fit well on my requirements. Even Today the cheapest module I found was around 15€ while 2006 is predicated as […]

The Concrete Lab had been an experimental project of Valentin Rettenmaier and me to explore the aesthetics of concrete for indoor use, while working with different additives to reach specific material properties.

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Sodaconstructor is one of the smartest web applets to play and learn about the construction of artificial lifeforms while playing with springs masses and muscles. By doing so you are able to explore fundamentals of statics and dynamics in an abstract but playful way. Further it’s an interesting […]

Developed during the vvvv media programming workshop of Sebastian Oschatz. HfG Offenbach 2005.
Cyto Wallpaper is an iconic installation concerning the idea of upcoming artificial environments in our personal environment, which in this case allow you to explore the Biodiversity on your wall. The projected patterns are modified with an cellular automaton like used in the […]

Pre-degree work. HfG Offenbach 2001, Tutor Prof. Dieter Mankau.
Plankton is known as an amazing natural being. It can multiply it’’s own biomass by 40 in 24 hours, and is an important resource in cosmetics and food industry. By the way it produces oxygen and hydrogen thus fresh air and energy. Why not implement this natural […]

With Windy Facades the surface of buildings is broken up to reach sensual transparency between inside and outside. The facade consists of flexible patterns. Like leaves they can dance in the wind and perform a spectacle of light and breezes of air. On one side they provide an environment argument by the environmental forces, on […]