This project is an interactive L.E.D. public artwork on the south and east facade of the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Data Central was in collaboration with the Social Media Workgroup (SMW) and the American Institute of Architect Students - University of New Mexico Installation Committee (AIAS - UNM).

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The design is based on the idea of movement from the nearby traffic. Because the facility is located on two very active streets near the university, the intent was to capture that movement through the placement of the L.E.D. strips. There are twenty strips on each glass plane that incrementally rises in slope to visually represent the movement of the streets.

 

The installation of the project consists of multiple 3D printed modules that I designed for the attachment to the window sill and the L.E.D. strips. There are two types of modules: one module is designed to be a place holder at the end of the aluminum “C” channels and the other module determines the angle of the L.E.D. strips.