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PURSUIT OF LIGHT
BY TINGTING YANG
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Project Details Project Lead:
Lucy Jones
Title:
pursuit of light
Type:
interactive archietectural installation
Location:
UCA Canterbury campus
Project Dates:
17 July 2018 - 17 August 2018 On-site Construction 24 August 2018 - 31 August 2018 Installation open to public
Design Period:
May 2018 - August 2018
Budget:
ÂŁ300
Scale:
2m x 2m x 1m
Support:
UCA Creative Residency Funding, AKT II Structural Engineers
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Fig.01 The rendering of the restoration of Grey Frairs
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Research Agenda and Process Overview This research and project is aim to explore how to make invisible things become visible.By which people can deepen the understanding of light and utilise it more to our daliy life. The goal of this project is to use the principle of long time exposure to record the trail of light made by people.This installation is build in aluminium strips and hang over with iron wire and net .The shape of the space is derived from one hundred different doors in canterbury which have a long history.But the building have vanished the has three different parts and will rotate when you are moving.After pushing the UV torch in the planned tunnel it will draw the outline of the buliding for once in a limited time. All the movements wil be recorded by a camera and represent to people of their work..
Research Questions 1.
How can the different aluminium strips make up the shape of the bulidings when they are rotating?
2. How to represent it after recorded the trial of light? 3. How to lead the routine for people and make them .
Fig.01 (previous page) The Generative Folly, constructed across the central quad at the UCA Canterbury campus
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Research Statement
Significance and Contribution This project have a meaning of archeology ,by drawing the shape of different doors,it remind people to protect the ancient buiding in town.Meanlwhile,the glowing trial of light in the dark is also a form of visuilbization.Then use the long time exposure effect to record human behaviour will be an essential part of the interaction.So it may change how people think about the intense of history and the past in everyday spaces.Also it is like a way to create the history by yourself.
Methodologies 1.
Buliding a space for people to move through.
2. Record and display human’s behaviour.
Fig.02 (left) The doors in Canterbury
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Design Proposal proposed to design and build
show it on the wall by a projector.
a dark space for long time exposure photography. And to use aluminium strips and bend it into a tunnel for the uv torch.When you push it by hand, the light will glow in the dark and recorded in the camera.It looks like a point in the dark . Also,there will be a system which will record the movement when people walk through it.It will finally shows like a light trial in the photography. I will explore a way to present it too.To show people their own work.Maybe
Key technological outcomes of proposal in Recording system:This system will combine the camera and the glowing stick.It will record people’s movement in 25 seconds.When they are trying to walk through the tunnel.The trial will left. 1.
The aluminium frame and the rope wire construct the installation together.So I need to bend it with clap,use some metal techinicals to soldering.Also make some holes and use iron string to suspend it.
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Proposal & Context
Design Research Context Work by others
Field of Work In this part I wish to highlight few designers and architects influenced
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my design .Even though the uv light is hardly used in design field.But they still inspire me to use the visual illusion theroy.The diffrent shape of the installation made up a completed inspire me to draw the outline of the ancient building .
George King weaves UV string to create glowing maze-like installation in Detroit Gabriel Dawe-String Theory Jeongmoon ChoiThree-Dimensional UV Thread Installations Minimalism and black white,Esther Stocker
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Fig.03(top) installation by Esther StockerďźŒ2012
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Design Methodologies proposed to design and build a totally dark space for long time exposure recording. And to make the picture in good quality the light source need to be tested. Also I need to make the space totally dark so I need to paint the wall and floor.Also I need to suspend some shade curtain. What’s more important, i need to design a system which can record the movement of people.I will do some experiments to compare different types of cameras.
Critical Design Elements 1.
Aluminium strips
2. Iron strings and net 3. UV torch/Whole dark space 4. Electronic recording system and projector
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Process & Methods
Prototyping and testing Challenges and Solutions:
get through it.
1. Steady system for the standing 5.The material of the frame need tripod that held the camera,the to be avoided the refleciton of the position is in the middle of the light. entrance so it will be safety problems to consider.Also it need to be connected to the projector to present the pictures photo. 2. Control the painting time of people to get the best quality of exposure. 3. The strips will rotate when suspended so it is hard to control the angle.So it’s important to find a right direction. 4.The metal material will be suspended so we need to consider if it’s safe for people to
Fig.04 (left) line drawing of the ancient buildings
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EXPOSURE TIME TEST-
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Fig.05 Testing of the exposure time in different materials
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CAMERA TESTING
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Fig.06 Experiments in the exhibition hall
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Fabrication Techniques Bending and soldering:The aluminium strips need to be bended into a designed shape and connected by soldering . Suspend:The strip need to be drilled some holes and hang it up by the iron string. The weight need to be calculated accurately. Control system:The strip constitude the frame and we can put the uv torch in it but a system need to be designed.
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Control Systems The tripod and camera will record the movement of people while the projector will present it onto the wall.
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Occupation and Interaction To hang it up ,the aluminmum strips are heavy so it would not rotate so fast.Also the designer can make glowing signals on the floor to lead their ways and remind them to control the time.
Review of Outcomes
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Fig.11 (left) Speculative occupation drawing Figs.12, 13 & 14 (right and continued overleaf) Completed Generative Folly installation in site
Fig.07 CAD layout of the installation
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Fig.08 Rendering of the installtion
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Appendix Materials and Suppliers List Aluminium strips(from B&Q, Canterbury, 01227 865500) 40*2mm*1m*12 Fabric (from amazon) shaded curtain Other sundries: Tripod Camera(Nikon D90，Panasonic DMC-TZ20，Canon 1300D，Gopro Hero4)
Bibliography
<<Architectural modelmaking>>,Dunn, Nick; London : Laurence King, 2010; <<Modelmaking : a basic guide>>Sutherland, Martha, London : W.W. Norton, 1999; <<The 3D type book>>,London : Laurence King, 2011.
Appendix
Image Credits All figures are copyright the author unless noted as follows: Fig.03(top)installation by Esther Stocker,2012
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Credits MA Architecture Course Leader: Lucy Alice Jones MA Architecture Design supervisor: Luke Jones
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