This interview was conducted for KineticArchitecture.Net by Oliver van Poucke; Kinetic Architecture is an online publication dedicated to research and critical writing on kinetic and responsive architecture. The platform explored buildings and urban environments that incorporate movement, transformation, and adaptive systems, documenting projects at the intersection of architecture, engineering, media technologies, and interactive design. During the late 2000s, it became a valuable reference for architects and designers interested in dynamic architecture and kinetic façades.

The interview accompanied the article "Dexia Tower on Kinetic Architecture", focusing on LAb[au]'s conception of the Dexia Tower media façade and its contribution to the emerging field of kinetic architecture.
http://dynamic-architecture.blogspot.com/2008/10/dexia-tower-brussel.html

_ about 16n

16ⁿ _ ƒ5³ is an interactive kinetic light sculpture, extending the bi-dimensional screen space, by transposition of its pixel resolution to the physical space. Conceived as a modular infrastructure, 16ⁿ _ ƒ5³ is a communication and computation system, propagating in form of light and sound, the events it inhabits. Presence and motion create and alter the transmitted data, and propagation of this data becomes a space-time parameter.

ƒ5³ _ framework 5*5*5 refers to informatics' modular workspace, called a framework. Here, ƒ5³ 's "frames" constitute the framework, a space built up by five modules of 2*2m, divided in 5*5 squared elements, establishing a matrix of 5*5*5 = 125 modules. At the one side diffusing the light (white) and at the other side absorbing the light ( black ), the modules constitute a binary language (0,1) and a space of 125 pixels, allowing to transcribe captured data from the physical environment in a kinetic and luminous play _ in between opening and closing, in between transparency and reflection, in between light and dark."