Train: A medium that conveys souls, thoughts, relationships. It transports areas of our immaterial and material existence, forward in time and space. Rushing through a system of underground arteries, it gives life to the city. Each stop is a pulse. In each stop, a train of new thoughts, new souls, different realities are constantly relocating. A patch of intangible information expands and compresses again and again inside a movable perforated metal container. An urban installation that interacts with the movement of the train will capture all of the above information and project them via an interactive projection mapping setting.
The Transformable Intelligent Environments Laboratory (TUC TIE Lab) at the Technical University of Crete School of Architecture was founded in 2011 on the basis of researching and developing methodologies, software, mechanisms and know-how for designing and fabricating paradigms of transformable intelligent environments. It promotes specialized research on methods and systems that explore modularity, adaptability and transformability, both physical and perceptual, as well as the exploration of innovative materials and techniques to increase their performance.
