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The World's first screen to be made of concrete
It is made from see-through concrete - and it is heavy. Innovation Lab presents of the heaviest screens in the world. It is heavy due to its physique, but in particular due to the endless number of perspectives and possibilities it features.
A trial of strength? A mobile technology on the increase becoming a significant reality is now being challenged by exactly the opposite. While screen technologies are currently bringing forth the most gossamer screen types – perpetually implementing new resolution and colour standards, Innovation Lab now presents a novel screen type not conforming to this trend. It does however pave the way to a new world of unprecedented possibilities.
In co-operation with Christoffer Dupont, student of engineering; Line Langballe, student of architecture and Dalton Beton (a Danish manufacturer of concrete components), the Innovation Lab project team has developed the first screen of transparent concrete that the world has ever seen. A revolutionising screen type – a novel concept which will come to influence building industry, architecture, design and a vast array of business areas. The first firms of architects were already queuing up long before the manufacturing process had been completed. Innovation Lab therefore has great expectations to this creation and anticipates a massive influx of attention, national as international, cementing the significance of the see-through concrete screen...
The screen consists of concrete with embedded optical fibres, arranged as pixels, capable of transmitting natural as well as artificial light. The light-admission points are on the back of the screen where the fibres are positioned. The light, or the picture, will then be displayed in pixels on the front. The light source can be a projector emitting either pictures or film footage. In principle, the screen is capable of acting as a window since – owing to the combination of the screen concept's light-absorption and optical cables – it has a capacity for transmitting natural light.
New standards, new potential
With the see-through concrete screen we are forced to rethink our ways of production and communication in an infinite number of situations. Maybe we will soon have the choice between paper-thin electronic screens and solid walls directly displaying the revenue-generating ads. Maybe aesthetic qualities will now be challenged by building components with properties beyond hitherto known levels of functionalism and aestheticism.
The maxim IT in everything is now, with a fairly justified approximation, being juxtaposed with screens in everything: we have been witnessing the triumphant progress of the screen technology in several industries and materials – the textile industry representing one of the most revolutionising and best known examples. We bring our screens wherever we go, we wear them, and – before long – we will be able to walk on them.
See also (in Danish): http://www.intelligentetekstiler.dk/sw20331.asp
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