Puzzle Facade / Urban Intervention

Puzzle Facade brings the experience of solving a Rubik’s cube to the urban space. It transforms the Ars Electronica’s media facade into a giant Rubik’s cube, inviting passers-by to engage with an interactive experience that takes place in Linz (Austria). In Puzzle Facade, the player interacts with the specially designed interface-cube. The interface-cube is fitted with electronic components to keep track of rotation and orientation. This data is sent to a computer that runs the Puzzle Facade software. The software changes the lights and color of the large-scale Ars Electronica’s media facade in correlation to the handheld interface-cube.