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Gas Connect Austria Interactive Animation

Andreas Koller — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:50:38 +0000

For the launch of the new corporate identity of Gas Connect Austria, formerly OMV Gas GmbH, Strukt was asked by WIEN NORD to create an interactive animation for the website to explain the complex process of gas compression. Following the design guidelines, Strukt developed a visual concept to explain the station, which was used online, on site and in print.

Gas Connect Austria operates the infrastructure that acts as the central hub in the European natural gas grid. Compressor stations along the pipelines ensure constant flow of gas by cleaning, measuring and compressing it. In the eight compressor stations all over Austria the informational animation by Strukt informs about this process. An interactive version is available on the website of Gas Connect Austria. The print version is used in information brochures.

Strukt created a clean visual language to communicate the complex process:

Museum Brennpunkt Interactive Exhibits

Gregor Hofbauer — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:03:25 +0000

The museum BrennpunktÂ° – 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.

House Configurator

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

Energy Game

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

Flame Game

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.

Temperature Game

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

Video Player

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

Oesterreich Werbung Create A Snowflake

Gregor Hofbauer — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:33:02 +0000

The Museums Quarter Vienna is a hot spot for the winter holiday season for people to hang out, enjoy hot cups of molded wine and listen to music. Österreich Werbung approached Strukt via Agency TBWA\Wien to come up with an online snowflake generator where users can create their own snowflakes. Additionally to that Strukt was comissioned to realise an installation to display the user generated snowflakes on facades of the MQ. The large scale video installation was up for a total of 3 weeks, every night from 5 pm to 11 pm. Every single snowflake was scheduled to fall at a specific time. Users were able to be at the MQ to see their creation in person or to follow their work online via webcam. For those who missed their snowflake at all, a link to the record of their falling flake was sent to them via e-mail.

Der Standard Commercials

Gregor Hofbauer — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:09:34 +0000

Vienna based agency Himmer, Buchheim & Partner approached us to create 4 animated spots for TV and movie theaters matching their newly launched campain for the Austrian daily newspaper “Der Standard”. Creative Director Eva Buchheim and her team provided us a great concept to work with and it was a blast to bring the simple but yet adorable designs to life.

Based on the vector illustrations we did the character animation in Adobe Flash and created the environment in Adobe After Effects. The newspaper itself was requested to be a real footage element, so we did a 2 day stop-motion shoot in house to get the necessary style and footage for our final product.

The three TV spots were first aired in August 2008 onÂ Austria’s broadcast station ORF.Â The extended version for movie theatres premiered in September 2008 and is shown across Austria.

Der Standard Theatrical commercial:

Der Standard TV commercials:

Stills from the TV commercials: