In the following TED.com video MIT’s Carlo Ratti and his team at SENSEable City Lab make cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away and to create surprising visualizations of city life. And they have created dazzling interactive environments and architecture from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.
Tronic (a NYC based directing, design and animation studio) tapped into their architecture backgrounds for the film they created for Herzog & de Meuron’s 57-story hi-rise residential tower in Tribeca. Combining a live action helicopter shoot with extensive CG modeling, the film shows the poetic beauty of how the building was conceived, beginning with the elements of each floor descending from the Manhattan sky and landing into place on top of the Anish Kapoor sculpture. Enjoy 🙂