Laser Kart

Surely someone must have thought of this already! Monster Attack asked Matt Murphy to guest post and this was the result - 'Mario' Go Kart Augmented Reality super fess! (Matt's description)

Explore Falinge on BBC!

The recently released Explore Falinge platform, has received positive press from BBC

Explore Falinge

The community platform Explore Falinge, launched at The Odean Cinema in Rochdale Last night. Danny Lomax from Glass Eye Productions produced a trailer for the full feature movie that was shown that can be viewed here. Monster attack designed the platform in collaboration with Glass Eye. The stories document the renovation to the estate through the lives of the residents. They serve to highlight the strength and inspiring spirit of the community along with the hardwork of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, Link4Life and Rochdale Pride Partnership.

Monster attack and glass eye productions hope to expand the platform to document and link the stories of other communities using the neighbourhub portal.

Participatory Ideas Workshop

Monster Attack facilitated a participatory design session this week. We hope to bring you news about this exciting project as it becomes available

Sticker time!

After watching a TED talk on slowness and discovering sticker printer paper for the first time, we were inspired to create our first sticker. Please find 20mins of time to 'spend' watching this. After all whats the point in time 'saving' tools if you never get to 'spend' any of it? Careful, if you use it you might end up owing us time!

Juice Sustainable Innovation Workshop 2010

Monster Attack organised the first Annual Sustainable Innovation Workshop at the University of Reading. Research Engineers at the TSBE centre were invited to develop sustainable innovation ideas. Proposals were made for a new wind turbine design, a lemon battery PV array prototyping tool and a physical computing interface for building energy use. The link below describes Marek Kubik's exciting design for a geodesic dome made from bamboo and tennis balls, that could be used in disaster relief.


We would like to thank Caversham Lawn Tennis Club for kindly donating used tennis balls for the project and the University of Reading for supporting the workshop. We are looking forward to Juice 2011!

NOx eating airport terminal

Monster Attack and James Mills with Research Engineers from the University of Reading's TSBE Centre recently completed a competition entry to design a new sustainable airport terminal for airBaltic.

The project explored the challenge of designing a 'sustainable' airport terminal. One of the proposals explored in the design was for a NOx eating facade that it was calculated from the manufacturer's claims that it could eat all the NOx produced during LTO (Landing and Take off) cycles.

Sustainable responsive facade for Piraeus Tower, Athens

Monster attack have designed a new sustainable facade for the Piraeus Tower in Athens, Greece, the drawings formed part of a collection of designs that were published in Piraeus Tower 2010: Changing the Face/Facades Reformation by greekarchitects.gr. The facade would open in the summer to ventilate the building whilst turning perpedicular to the angle of attack from the sun. It would then contract in winter and at night to insulate the building with a second skin.