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To New York, to the heart of Manhattan, real barriers of work-site well give access to a potential universe and to l’information online. An experience out of the ordinary that invites us to rethink our perception of the city and the reports that we maintain with our environment.

Realized by a group d’architectes and d’artistes New York multimedia taken by Carolina Cisneros, Carlos J. Gomez of Llarena and Mateo Pinto, L’installation "Houston Fence" takes places on the corner Houston and Broadway, in the neighborhood of Soho.

For this creation, l’équipe used the barriers of the work-site neighbor as support. On every barrier were thus placed small colored elements to create a motive perméable as decorative as rich feels. In fact, each of these small effective pieces as a pixel to form on the gates the motives d’un code QR, Code sort block in 2 dimensions. It suffices from that time to the pass to take a photo of these motives with his portable provided telephone d’un software able to decipher the codes QR To attain directly to the site internet of l’équipe project. Let's specify that this code QR can be read to different ladders and speeds, by the pedestrian, the cyclist or l’automobiliste.

With "Houston Fence", a well real artefact, in l’occurrence a simple barrier of work-site, becomes a door d’entrée towards a potential universe. Thanks to this procedure, the pass can, according to the places qu’il visits, connect itself to internet and attain in a wink d’oeil to contextual the news… reality and the potential one between then in resonance. This experience that flirts with the increased reality We invite to think otherwise our physical environment. Of new perspectives s’offrent to the architects and to the designers, allowing modifying the perception and d’enrichir practices it that l’usager can have city and of his built framework, surpassing the consecrated borders of the real and potential worlds #8230;

Discover a video of l’installation:

For in to know more on the project, visit the site Houston Fence

Sources: Houston Fence and All About Movable Life
Une barrière entre réel et virtuel