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From the Ted Talk by Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds
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Open Cloze
My colleague at MIT, Assaf ________, he could tell you much more about sensing and many other wonderful things we can do with sensing, but I wanted to go to the second part we discussed at the beginning, and that's actuating our ___________. And the first project is something we did a couple of years ago in Zaragoza, _____. It started with a question by the mayor of the city, who came to us saying that Spain and Southern Europe have a beautiful _________ of using _____ in public space, in architecture. And the ________ was: How could technology, new technology, be added to that? And one of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a ________ was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it, you can show ________, images, text. And even you can approach it, and it will open up to let you jump through, as you see in this _____.
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- environment
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- tradition
- image
- spain
- workshop
- biderman
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Original Text
My colleague at MIT, Assaf Biderman, he could tell you much more about sensing and many other wonderful things we can do with sensing, but I wanted to go to the second part we discussed at the beginning, and that's actuating our environment. And the first project is something we did a couple of years ago in Zaragoza, Spain. It started with a question by the mayor of the city, who came to us saying that Spain and Southern Europe have a beautiful tradition of using water in public space, in architecture. And the question was: How could technology, new technology, be added to that? And one of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it, you can show patterns, images, text. And even you can approach it, and it will open up to let you jump through, as you see in this image.
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