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Project Overview

The lotus leaves, reeds, and dandelions floating on the water form a magical brilliance through the reflection of sunlight during the day. At night, they will be combined with lighting programs in a composition that shows how the plants breathe at night. It also uses various contextual music from nature to show the difference between day and night.

Project Commissioner

Golden Eagle International Lighting & Engineering Co., Ltd.

Project Creator

Chih Liang Liu

Team

Cultural Affairs Bureau of Hsinchu County Government (Taiwan), Golden Eagle International Lighting & Engineering Co., Ltd., HTLD Optical Art Aesthetics Design Co., Ltd.

Project Brief

Multiple lighting-module designs are adopted to create a beautiful lotus garden that lives on water surfaces in the city. As it is created using lightweight materials, the module is easy to disassemble and transport and the design can be easily set up for water exhibitions. In addition, the design integrates a professional composition of electronic musical arrangements and special lighting changes that work to display a marvelous nocturnal atmosphere. It creates a reflection on the water’s surface, echoing both the virtual and real.

The structure can be erected as a special festive lighting design in a city’s waterfront park. Through the use of metal, optical glass, and lighting art, it simulates nature’s lotus leaves, reeds, and dandelions on water surfaces during the day. At night, it uses a type of photosynthesis that, combined with LED effects edited on a computer program, creates a strange scene that is reflected on the water surface. The continuous images that are remotely generated cause people to relax and unfold in a moment of infinite imagination.

Project Innovation/Need

The project adopts computer sequencing and light-sensing control. Based on the changes in urban light environments and natural illuminance, the brightness of the LED will change accordingly. The project also combines a sequenced time control so that the optical glass on the surface during the day reflects multiple colors of the sunlight spectrum. During the night, the music’s rhythm is arranged or composed so that the fluorescent illusory effect of plants breathing at night is clearly programmed and aligned with the lighting.

We have attempted to move the refined light and shadow works previously exhibited at an art museum to the outdoors on open water as the exhibition space. This was done in the hopes of the general public having two-way communication with the natural environment as they are led to this outdoor viewing. Interacting with the exhibit also conveys the beauty of coexisting with nature in the cold city. In this way, these artworks can draw more urban people to waterfront parks and they can then experience the enthusiasm between one another.

As such, the installation is not merely considered art but also a kind of emotional communication with nature.

Design Challenge

We confronted the challenge of assembling the device on the water’s surface. Thus, we used control program sequencing and controlled the time and frequency of various devices to effectively display the work at night. It was also necessary to adapt to the features of the natural water level that varied because of environmental changes. This ensured that it was displayed in the city every day without being easily damaged and the installation also generated shadow changes when exposed to sunlight during the day. After nightfall, the lighting effect was created using lighting devices.

Also, controlling the lighting program was particularly important as it had to completely conform to the rhythm of the music to demonstrate a smooth sense of breathing. In addition, the device had to continuously be adjusted to avoid light pollution in the city before it could be finally constructed to realize the complete work.

Sustainability

The team uses a modular design with lightweight materials to make it easy to disassemble and move. It can quickly complete the plan for re-exhibition in the different place, combined with changes in lighting to present different atmospheres, which is convenient for reusable in different exhibition venues.

In this project, the production team uses computer controlled timing and light sensor to manipulate the equipment based on environmental lights and natural lights. According to this process, LED lights will change with the timing system, creates a strange scene that is reflected on the water surface. The continuous images that are remotely generated cause people to relax and unfold in a moment of infinite imagination.

This festival had included structure art, and art of light and shadow. We were planning to display all the works and collections with environmentally friendly methods, moreover, we collaborated those works with the landscape of the Dongxing Canal Water Landscape Park. Those sights would offer immersed experiences.

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