Rubik's Cube Architecture; Bringing the Puzzle to Façades.

Remember the ultimate challenge of the Rubik's Cube. Now we have an interactive building façade that allows you to challenge yourself even further at a buildings full scale.

‘Puzzle Façade’, by spanish artist and designer Javier lloret, brings the experience of solving a rubik’s cube to the urban space. the project transforms the façade of the ars electronic building in austria, into a interactive, vibrantly-colored cube, changing chroma based on cooperation with the public. passers-by are invited to engage with a hand-held, 3D-printed interface-cube, which packs electronic components at its core that keep track of rotation and orientation. collected data is sent via bluetooth to a computer that runs a software, which coverts the information into light and color that projects onto to the exterior of the structure, allowing the architecture to turn into a playable rubik’s cube. since the user is only able to see two sides of the edifice at one time, the difficulty factor increases, but as the player is able to rotate and flip the interface-cube, it does not limit the game.

The player uses a symbolic Rubik's Cube that is electronically connected to the building and each move you make shows through the color changes on the façade.

 

 This is the remote Rubik's Cube that connects to the building façade.

Below is a video link to show how this works. It's pretty cool, check it out.
http://vimeo.com/79616059

How cool was this interactive façade. Hope you enjoy!
http://www.designboom.com/technology/puzzle-facade-turns-architecture-into-a-playable-rubiks-cube-12-09-2013/