Gizmodo
Say what you will about the fiascoes leading up to the Beijing Olympics, but the event has brought along with it some amazing new architecture. Greeting visitors attending the Xicui entertainment complex near the site of the games is a 20,000 square foot wall of computer-controlled LEDs, the largest of its kind ever built. Better yet, the wall manages to power itself completely using only the sun.
The GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall, designed by Simon Giostra & Partners and Arup, uses thousands of solar capture cells attached to each of its glass panels to charge up during the day and then release dazzling light shows at night. It's the first time perforated photovoltaics laminated in glass have ever been used in a building in China, but if all goes off without a hitch, it most certainly won't be the last.
The wall is a combination of three textured panels in low-, medium-, and high-transparency glass, employed together to create a "continuous carpet" of flowing design that's actually roughly 7 feet deep. The wall will showcase low-resolution LED imagery, to help conserve energy and paint an artsy gauze on whatever does get shown.
The project will be completed in June and will feature performance works by artists from all over the world. [Technabob]
Comments
At least they have one thing solar powered.
Stunning advance in hi tech
This may be the future of movie screens in theatres
A bright idea!!!
(as long as it isn't shady)
I can't wait to see every single Chinese hacker going after this. Also, wonder if anyone is dumb enough to spray paint it?
Goodness. With all the smog in Beijing, I'm surprised any light gets through.
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Joking, joking...
Wait they have Sunlight in China? I thought all they had was a heavy smog cloud covering the whole country.
All joking aside this is a really nice idea and I'm honestly surprised that this isn't used more. Change the color of your house at will. Make it flash brightly in case of emergency so people know there's trouble. Granted you could do some gaudy things with it but I'm sure some local HoA rules or something could cover it so you dont make your house flash purple and puke green though out the day.
someone alert daft punk!
hooray for innovation! boo & hiss for immitation.
@ robotleawesome: haha YESSS
quality not quantity.
nobody cares about resolution anymore.
show me a 20,000 squarefoot OLED screen and then were talkin'
so it looks like we wont be talkin' for a while
That's so fricking cool!
Seems better then that Flare (Flair?) thing...the wall scales, or whatnot, anyway.
might be interesting to roll some movies on that thing, regardless of resolution. maybe Seven Years in Tibet, or Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square..
I doubt that thing is solar powered. The Chinese government says it is, but then again, they say a lot of things.
Much more likely that it's running off of juice from a coal plant and just has a few ornamental solar panels.
@Eric1285:
ok pack up ur discriminating crap, not everything from China is fake, at least read the source before u make some stupid statements!
@kittenman:No, just most of it. It's just easier to assume everything there is fake or at the very least, poorly conceived.
Damn Commies just want to sell more sunglasses to fill their pockets
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