Solar Display: a selfpowered media facade

Artists who create interactive systems and artistic interface designs have begun to look for new display possibilities. For this reason facade’s of contemporary buildings have been largely investigated as a sort of membrane for the display of interactive digital content. These facades often make use of intrusive systems such as LED displays, monitor walls, or light bulb systems that fully cover the buildings to achieve large scale image displays. While LEDs are very expensive, monitor walls hardly work at daylight situations, and light bulb systems have only limited display capabilities. Equally we may understand that the mode of apprehension of media facades has changed tremendously compared to traditional types of building surfaces.