Read at intervaldesign.org
Architecture is a profession that sits on the edge of the creative tradition and the hard sciences. This is something that is intuitively known as architects routinely balance understanding human behavior while developing creative and functional spaces. In the case of this project, the idea of art and science co-mingling has produced a hybrid approach to solving a scientific inquiry with the methodologies of art. The study strives to document people inhabiting a space, relating to each other’s presence, and rendering their interactions in an artistic and intuitive way. To achieve this, a program was developed for capturing the movements of actors and abstracting their interactions into an interactive art piece…