Carlo Ratti, an Italian architect and engineer, is the creator of Digital Water Pavilion,
which was chosen by Time magazine as one of the best invention in 2007 and presented at Expo zaragoza 2008. It is an interactive structure which features liquid curtains for WHICH can be programmed to display images or messages and also sense an approaching object and automatically part to let it through.
The "water walls" that make up the structure consist of a row of closely spaced solenoid valves along a pipe suspended in the air. The valves can be opened and closed, at high frequency, via computer control. This produces a curtain of falling water with gaps at specified locations - a pattern of pixels created from air and water instead of illuminated points on a screen. The entire surface becomes a one-bit-deep digital display that continuously scrolls downward.
The dream of digital architecture to create buildings that are responsive and reconfigurable and can dynamically adjust to people and conditions, came true.
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