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How to "activate" a common passageway?

Date

2009

Medium

Electronics, computer, sound system

Software

Arduino

Author & development

Tobias Muthesius, Lab212

Synopsis

Up questions our physical and mental relationship with architecture.
The device enables any staircase to become responsive to the passage of one or more visitors. 
An infrared barrier placed on each step triggers a sound in real time when a visitor steps on it.

Commissioned by

Institut Français, Meknes, MAR

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