31.May 2010 Benjamin Wiederkehr Showcases , ,

Weather Tower

Wather Tower is an urban installation from the belgian Design Agency Lab[au]. It forecasts tomorrow’s temperature, cloudiness, precipitations, and wind, by using colors and geometrical patterns to visualize/transcribe real-time data provided by the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium.

The visualization is based on the lightning concept by Space Canon of the Dexia Tower in Brussels. The building has a total of 6,000 windows behind each is a lighting fixture consisting on average of 12 light bulbs, each with three LEDs – a green, a red and a blue – that can be combined into a complete colour palette. The reflection on the closed blind illuminates the whole surface of the window.

A color-code corresponds to tomorrow’s temperature compared to the monthly average, linked to a scale of color-temperatures ranging from violet ( -6° or colder ), blue ( -4° ), cyan ( -2° ), green ( monthly average ), yellow ( 2° ), orange ( 4° ) to red ( 6° or warmer ).

For example: When tomorrow’s temperature is two degrees higher than the monthly average, the tower colors ‘yellow’. Furthermore, the level (dark / light) of this color corresponds to the light-condition of the sky of the upcoming day.

Weather Tower PaletteWeather Tower Pattern RainWeather Tower Temperature

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  • Annette

    It is cool I admit it.
    But we in Vienna already have something like this since the fifties (!!!): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringturm

    The needle on top of the tower changes its light with the weather condition:
    * red ascending = temperature rise
    * rot descending = temperature descending
    * green ascending = weather will become better
    * green descending = weather will become worse
    * rot blinkend = Warnung Gewitter oder Sturm
    * weiß blinkend = Schnee oder Glatteis

  • Annette

    Sorry, the last two mean
    * red flashing = warning thunderstorm or storm
    * white flashing = snow or glazed frost

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