Client: Ramus / LendLease
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Year: 2012
Darling Quarter Luminous was at launch the largest permanent interactive lighting installation in the world.
In collaboration with Ramus, our intention for this project was to allow people to interact with an entire building facade in a way that had previously been unthinkable.
To fulfil this vision we developed an entire interactive platform comprising several key elements:
- A website allowing users to design and submit their own light shows that are curated and scheduled to play out on the facade, as well as a live representation of the facade, connecting people who are not connected physically.
- Mobile apps that empower the public to use their phones to interact with the facade. Apps include familiar arcade-style games that can be played on the facade, as well as offering other new and exciting ways to interact. Fingerpaint is the most popular app, with an intuitive interface that allows users to draw with different colours in real-time directly on the facade.
- Two outdoor touch-screen kiosks are installed to allow visitors to use the interactive apps. This was especially important at launch as smart-phones were relatively new and rare.
Our solution also included a cloud-based controller, on-site interactive server, and infrastructure for playback and facade output capture. We implemented a queueing system to manage many simultaneous connections from smart phones and the on-site kiosks, with a matching system for multi-player interaction.