primal source

source: screenshot from www.haque.co.uk
Primal Source consists of a monumental screen of water illuminated by backprojection.
Set up against the night sky at the 2008 GLOW festival in Santa Monica, this installation allowed the audience to interact via a number of stationary microphones. Sound, music and the response emanting from the crowd of festivalgoers were translated directly into constantly changing visualisations.

source: screenshot from www.haque.co.uk
London based architect Usman Haque of Haque Design + Research specialises in the design and research of interactive architecture systems, building his practice around the concepts of hard space and soft space working in conjunction, considering architecture not as static, but dynamic, responsive and conversant.

click to watch video of installation.

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Photographer, writer and documentarian Camilo José Vergara is renowned for his photographic documentation of American slums and decaying urban neighbourhoods, often returning to the same areas to track the decline and development of specific buildings and urban environments over time.
In a recent photo-essay he explores the striking contrast between inhabited and deserted architecture, documenting the effects of declining urban population and property deterioration in paired townhouses in Camden, N.J.

image: 908 N. 24^th St., Camden, 2004. source

image: The same spot, five years later. The boarded-up house has been demolished. 908 N. 24^th St., Camden, 2009. source

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