Steel City Messe-Highlight von Responsive Spaces

Das Design Steel City Messe-Highlight von Responsive Spaces ist ein hoch angesehener Gewinner des sehr prestigeträchtigen 2020 A' Design Award in Silber in der Wettbewerbskategorie Interface-Design.

SilberInterface· 2020

Steel City Messe-Highlight

von Responsive Spaces

Auftraggeber: Primetals Technologies Austria

Gewinner des A' Design Award in Silber in der Kategorie Interface

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Das Design

Über Steel City Messe-Highlight

Die Steel City ist ein stilisiertes Modell, das das Stahlwerk der Zukunft darstellt. Es besteht aus halbtransparenten Acrylmodellen, die auf einer LED-Wand platziert sind, die als Bildschirm zur Demonstration verschiedener Anwendungsfälle dient und die Steel City im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes zum Leuchten bringt: Bei der Auswahl eines der Szenarios an den Terminals lösen Benutzer Animationen aus, die dies visualisieren Prozesse und Arbeitsabläufe des Stahlwerks in einem Feuerwerk aus Licht und Farbe, projiziert durch die Acrylmodelle auf der Oberseite. Das Gesamterlebnis wird durch eine professionelle Informationsebene erweitert, die an den Terminals über eine einzigartige haptische Schnittstelle abgerufen wird.

Die Auszeichnung

Über den A' Design Award in Silber

Steel City Messe-Highlight ist Gewinner des A' Design Award in Silber, einer enorm prestigeträchtigen Anerkennung für erstklassige, großartige und beeindruckende Spitzendesigns. Silber-Gewinner sind ungemein brillante und äußerst kreative Werke, die die herausragende Expertise, das Talent und den Scharfsinn ihrer Designer veranschaulichen. Von Steel City Messe-Highlight wird erwartet, dass es ein wunderbares Vorzeigewerk ist, das bemerkenswert professionell und zutiefst innovativ ist. Dieses mit dem A' Design Award in Silber prämierte Design ist eine höchst bemerkenswerte, bewunderte Erfindung, die den Grenzen von Kunst, Wissenschaft, Design und Technologie zugutekommt und sie voranbringt. Steel City Messe-Highlight ist eine vielbeneidete Schöpfung, die Wünsche weckt, positive Gefühle vermittelt und Staunen und Verwunderung entfacht.

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Einzigartige Eigenschaften: The operation of the Steel City is bound to a unique rotary knob: While turning, several "steps" can be felt as "real" physical resistance. These are not analog in nature, but instead are generated through a magnetized liquid inside the knob's housing and can be programmed in realtime. The knob is programmed to adapt accordingly to every selected content and therefore enabling the experts from Primetals to focus on their visitors without ever taking their eyes off the presented stories.
Abmessungen & Verpackung: Over 200 acrylic 3D-models of a steel plant positioned upon a 6,5 x 4,5 meter led-wall, which is positioned horizontally between 4 interactive terminals. Every terminal utilizes a rotational knob featuring haptical feedback that changes in realtime corresponding to its navigational state. Cubic dimensions of the whole installation: 8m x 5m x 5,5m. The led-wall is raised 60cm from the floor, housing the hardware necessary for operating the installtion beneath.
Schlagwörter: haptic interface, digital staging, interactive installation, digital enhanced acrylic models
Produktionstechnologie: Over 200 different semi-transparent acrylic 3D-models were designed and manufactured depicting the model of a modern steel plant and were placed on a 24 sqm led-wall. The interfaces of the terminals around the Steelcity are specifically designed and built for the purpose of a haptic and intuitive user-experience. On top of the installation is a special reflective material, which mirrors the whole visualization of the acrylic models on the led-wall and projects it towards the far corners of the stand, giving everybody an additional perspective.
Designherausforderung: While our client is highly specialized in the field of steelworks and thus needed to communicate complex technical information to its own clients and partners, we still wanted to maintain a very productive level of minimalism for this installation in order to deliver their messages in a crystal-clear and visually aesthetic manner. Also, for the people operating the terminals and navigating through the different use-cases, we needed a haptic interface that is simple enough, yet incredibly responsive to the user in order for them to fully concentrate on the dialog with their customers.
Forschung: One of the research objectives was to develop an interface which can be programmed in real-time for the haptic rotary knob. We developed an in-house protocol which is able to communicate changes in the haptic structure to the hardware on the fly corresponding to the content on-screen. Another objective was to simplify the immensely complex processes and mechanisms of a steelplant to a stylized level which can be transported onto our model and create a visual language that is at the same time beautiful to watch and informative on a professional level.
Inspiration: Our inspiration for this project was to merge the necessity of visualizing extremely complex processes with an easy to use and intuitive haptic interface. The goal was to have an installation that would deliver expert knowledge on point and at the same time act as an visual highlight of the stand while maintaining the structural complexity of its professional use-cases. We wanted to merge a magical experience with a top notch user experience into a tool that serves the expertise of our client and helps them to deliver this expertise effortless to all visitors at the trade show stand.
Projektdauer: June 2019 in Duesseldorf at METEC 2019
Betriebsablauf: By selecting one of 12 scenarios at 4 terminals users can trigger animated sequences on the led-wall, which visualize the processes and work-flows of a steel plant in a firework of light and color. Steel is processed, data packets buzz through virtual lines, problems and solutions are displayed schematically and in context, always projected through the acrylic models on top. While the Steel City blends all stories perfectly, the terminals offer in-depth details to the individual users.
Teammitglieder: Director: Markus Pargfrieder
Spatial Experience Developer: Katharina Mayrhofer
Interface Engineer: Julian Reil
Spatial Experience Designer: Martin Zeplichal
Bildnachweise: Photo credits: Responsive Spaces & Philip Kistner Fotografie
Video credits: Responsive Spaces & Eyup Kuş