WIND INDIGO DYE

1:1 Interactive installation

2018 Micro Architecture

Instructor: Hwai-Wen Chang

Partner: Yu-Chuan Hsu, Hao-Jui Peng, Cheng-Wei Wu

The wind is an invisible presence. It always seems to be around. But it has a far relationship between our culture and life.

Blue dye is an old Hakka art that has gradually disappeared. The timeconsuming and complex but elegant dyeing methods are becoming less known...

Hsinchu city is the settlement cluster of Hakka culture, and it is also a windy city that blows strong winds because of its special landscape. This project is to build a micro-architecture that has such special humanities with natural factors and revives blue dye with the wind.

Exploded view

Wind indigo dye

Wind Indigo Dye is an architecture that can capture the shape of the wind. The wind is an unlimited resource and the memory of the people who live in Hsinchu. We hope that people could have brand new learning of the Hakka culture by dyeing their own Wind Indigo Dye. The analysis shows that the wind in Hsinchu is constantly blowing in different directions, especially from the North-East. To access the wind from different directions, the microarchitecture should be designed into a radial form. To make the invisible wind into a physical movement, we made a wind panel as a unit to study how to perform wind’s action. The diagram shows that the wind panel unit, which drives the movement of the drip tube, makes the dripping of dye turn into different patterns due to the different wind force.