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The Fallen Star installation is the final prototype built by the Architectural Association (AA) DLab Visiting School. This installation can be manipulated by user feedback, and it sits at the intersection of biomimetics, perception, and interaction. Student teams built a 3D-model and used video mapping, as well as algorithms and digital fabrication.

This installation caught my eye because I feel that while technology enhances it, it is already quite impressive on its own. With the use of technology, especially because it is interactive, the piece becomes so much more than simply the sum of its parts.

This project is effective at challenging one’s sense of perception about space, and by incorporating music with the project, the overall effect is much more powerful because it is both visual and auditory. It shows the potential for the kind of impact that pieces that create an experience for viewers can have.

In 2012, the year that this installation was created, the DLab chose green as its color in which to carry out experiments. The green color served as the ultimate inspiration for this project, in which creators had to observe the natural world and create their own abstractions and interpretations into designs.