Cool Things To Do! Mit Designs Water Wall In Spain!

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<p>MIT researchers design building made of water
Digital Water Pavilion to be unveiled in Zaragoza next year
Patti Richards, News Office
July 10, 2007</p>

<p>Imagine a building made of water. It features liquid curtains for walls - curtains that not only can be programmed to display images or messages but can also sense an approaching object and automatically part to let it through.</p>

<p>MIT architects and engineers have designed such a building, and it will be unveiled at next year’s international exhibition in Spain. The “digital water pavilion” - an interactive structure made of digitally controlled water curtains - will be located at the entrance to Expo Zaragoza 2008, in front of a new bridge designed by Zaha Hadid. The structure will contain an exhibition area, a cafe and various public spaces.</p>

<p>“To understand the concept of digital water, imagine something like an inkjet printer on a large scale, which controls droplets of falling water,” explains Carlo Ratti, head of MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory.</p>

<p>The “water walls” that make up the structure consist of a ro</p>

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<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/waterbuilding-0711.html[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/waterbuilding-0711.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>How cool! D will be in Europe next year, so I will make sure she knows and attends.</p>

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<p>How about designing the worlds fastest car using alternate power technology?</p>

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<p>A bit different from MITers’ love of developing systems for the Las Vegas casinos.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vegas.html[/url]”>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vegas.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p><a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/experiences_abroad_study_research_employment/mititaly_working_with_ferrari.shtml[/url]”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/experiences_abroad_study_research_employment/mititaly_working_with_ferrari.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>How about working for Ferrari in Italy during the summer? Now that is cool!</p>

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<p>Very cool–but I was glad to hear it is a temporary pavilion and not a long term building. Don’t think a building that relies on technology to achieve walls would be wise! “Sorry folks, the computer is down/electricity is out. Your office will return in a couple of hours, we hope.” :D</p>