ACE

ACE, the Arctic Center of Energy, is a seven-storey timber building for research and education in energy. It’s where future skills get built.

We built it again as an architect’s model, big enough to walk around. In its side is a screen. It isn’t a video. It’s a window: move, and the inside of the house moves with you, as if you were looking through glass.

1. An Orbbec Femto depth camera finds where your head is.
2. The inside of the building is rendered in real time, from exactly that point of view.
3. So the image on the screen has depth that changes as you walk, lean or crouch.
4. Every look inside sends a purple pulse along the threads to the skills cube.