Aqueous Mass Rises in New York, San Francisco, and Paris

Walk into W - New York on Lexington Ave, W San Francisco near Union Square, W Paris - Opéra and you'll find a towering, gleaming aluminum sculpture that looks like a futuristic canopy or some mysteriously lit cave. What you're seeing is Aqueous Mass, a cutting-edge piece of environmental architecture that was designed by the architecture firm Gage / Clemenceau.

Aqueous Mass boasts a biosympathetic environment that's activated when you step inside and interact with one of the three Intel-inspired Ultrabooks™ inside. You can learn about Four Stories, a short film series from Intel and W Hotels with Roman Coppola and The Directors Bureau, on the Ultrabooks themselves by watching the films and going behind the scenes of each.

The Ultrabooks power software that translates your movements into lighting into the space created by the installation. Check out these pictures from W Singapore and read more about Aqueous Mass.

Watch Mark Foster Gage, a principle architect of the installation for Intel and W Hotels, explain his inspiration here.