The museum Brennpunkt° – Museum der Heizkultur Wien (Brennpunkt translates to “focus point”) in Vienna shows unique historical objects of Viennese heating culture and gives background information on heating and its cultural and social impact. Strukt was commissioned to conceptualize, design and realize four interactive stations and a custom video-player. Strukt developed custom-built physical interfaces like valves and levers to enhance usability and make it more fun for visitors to explore the installations. For these installations Strukt developed the interaction concept, graphic- and motion design, as well as the sound design. Strukt implemented the stations in Adobe Flash AS3 using Arduino boards to read the rotary encoders and levers. |
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This quiz allows two visitors to create an energy-efficient building, where they can not only decide how their house is built, but also see how their daily behaviour influences the energy and CO2 consumption.
Photo (c) Rupert Steiner
How much energy does it take to heat a cup of tea? Or even a pot with 5 liters of water? At this interactive station visitors can explore how their physical activity translates into heat by moving the three levers.
Photo (c) Rupert Steiner
It is quite a challenge to find the conditions for an optimal flame. By turning the valves, visitors can regulate the fuel and oxygen supply to achieve the optimal flame inside the pre-combustion chamber.
At this station visitors can discover how wind and humidity influences the subjective temperature. The portrait screen above the three control valves shows two characters that change their behavior, outfit and surroundings corresponding to the setting.
Photo (c) Rupert Steiner
In the foyer of the museum a custom-built video player was installed, that allows a configurable news-feed and a custom play-list. Strukt programmed this application in vvvv.
Photo (c) Rupert Steiner
Photo (c) Rupert Steiner