The faculty in Dejvice has a light façade. People will be able to change it

source: aktualne.cvut.cz

Prague - Light lines, which change over time, adorn the facade of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague Dejvice. The interactive facade can communicate with its surroundings, for example through mobile applications. The patterns and colors of light change according to the data being processed by the system, such as air pollution or noise levels both inside and outside the building.
The project Lines, which involved collaboration between artists and experts from the Czech Technical University, aims among other things to present the school's research and creative activities to the public. In the future, it is expected to serve as an interactive tool for visualizing any processes. Along with the lighting of the facade, a website was launched that will eventually offer visitors creative engagement in the project.
The project was jointly initiated by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University and is one of the interdisciplinary projects of the Institute of Intermedia. The installation was designed by leading glass artist and sculptor Marian Karel, Josef Šafařík from the Institute of Industrial Design of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, co-founder of the Institute of Light Design Jakub Hybler, and the director of the Institute of Intermedia Roman Berka.
An important factor in the creation of the light facade was also the fact that prominent buildings of technical universities create landmarks in the Victory Square, as envisioned in the planned but never completed urban concept by Antonín Engel. This remains, like the Old Town Square, a reminder of unfinished or interrupted significant urban-forming concepts, the absence of which, according to experts, visually and functionally damages Prague in some ways.
The light facade may resemble the increasingly popular video mapping, but according to its creators, it is something different - precisely because it is driven by scientists. It has many technological possibilities and can convert data and information related to selected areas into understandable light effects - temperature and humidity of the air, noise levels in the surroundings, or environmental pollution both outside and inside buildings. It can visualize information about the state of data flows at both faculties.
Passersby can also interact with the visual shape and meaning using their smartphones, connecting the image with a sound installation. The project also has the character of a so-called smart product - it monitors the intensity of emitted light radiation and does not contribute to light pollution during nighttime.