In contemporary times, the urban environment has become unapproachable by its inhabitants. Especially, in a period of individual creation and personalization, the citizen still remains incapable as he speechlessly witnesses the shaping and reshaping of the city. Even the spaces that are public by name, have almost no public involvement in their processes of definition, realization and operation. NOX tries to question and disrupt this relationship by introducing a simple tangible control to the architectural structure, giving the power of control back to the public.

NOX is an architectural installation that lets the user take control over the surrounding infrastructure with a simple pull of a lamp string. It consists of a pull switch installed next to a building, and through this widely adopted haptic interface, the public is given back the control of enabling or disabling a public facade, rendering the true function of the building obsolete.

The familiar feeling of switching a lamp on and off provides the participants with the simple satisfaction of turning a new media facade or architecture into an accessible interface. Simply put, NOX proposes a way to transform the landmark of a city into the user’s plaything, therefore reversing the unwritten laws of urban space.