A group of London-based artists hopes to turn grey office blocks and warehouses into living canvases by making concrete and stone instantly change colour.
Artists have long decorated or illuminated buildings. But a group from the Royal College of Art hopes to go further by painting pre-formed slabs of concrete or artificial stone with thermochromic inks, which appear coloured only when heated. A network of nickel chromium wires and a cooling pipe system are also buried just below the surface of the slabs. A current sent through the wires warms the ink and transforms the building with glorious…
