"iPad 2 Window" - Virtual Window Design

How can we integrate the new iPad 2 into architecture and fully utilise its new features to achieve things that were not possible on the original iPad?

Introducing the iPad 2 Window - the most affordable and simple solution to a virtual window for your building interior. Using a specially designed App, the new camera and the powerful A5 processor, the iPad can track the face of any passer-by and adjust the onscreen image accordingly. In first person perspective, an illusion of a real window with outside scenery will appear. Since special 3D glasses are not required, this illusion is best achieved when only one user is looking at the iPad at one time. The user can also change the scenery with an iPhone and connect with friends through this window.

By integrating iPad 2 with architecture, it creates a visual connection between two physically separated spaces. As a nod to the environment, we will be upcycling refurbished iPad2s for this project, taking the functionality of the iPad beyond just a personal tablet in the post-PC world.

The “iPad 2 Window” Virtual Window & "iPad Wall" are designed by ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects. Please come back often to check out some of our new ideas!

“Bias of Thoughts” - Bookshelf Design

Thoughts are biased. When ideas are passed from one person to another, due to the transfiguration of the communication process and the frame of mind of the receiver, they are always perceived with bias.

Inspired by the famous 2D drawing of the optical illusive bookshelf, a 3D structure is translated and the “Bias of Thoughts” bookshelf is formed. It can be used for shelving books and iPads as well as hanging magazines. Visually, the optical illusion serves as a reminder that, whenever one picks up a medium, ideas can be misinterpreted when passed from one end to the other.

The “Bias of Thoughts” Bookshelf is designed by ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects. Please come back often to check out some of our new ideas!