Guto Requena’s ‘Hacked City’ project illuminates Brazil hotel with interactive light patterns
31 Aug 2015
Guto Requena’s ‘Hacked City’ project illuminates Brazil hotel with interactive light patterns
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Brazilian architect and designer Guto Requena has completed a new interactive light facade around the Hotel WZ Jardins in São Paulo.
Award-winning architect Guto Requena, creative director of Estudio Guto Requena, recently completed the new facade for the Hotel WZ Jardins as a research project exploring the ‘Hacked City’. The concept explores how we can bring positive changes to cities, their public spaces and architecture by plugging in poetic and functional systems to encourage changes in real time that are impromptu, collaborative and affordable.
Requena is representative of a new generation of architects and designers involved in the discussion of interactivity and its effects on architecture and design. His work focuses on new digital technologies, cyber-culture, hybrid realities, new lifestyles, affective memory and Brazilian culture.
Originally built in the 1970s, the Hotel WZ Jardins has recently been retrofitted, with Requena designing the new facade as a work of urban art – a 30-storey intervention that is visible both day and night.
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