Qingyun Liu
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Interactive Installation for Increasing Social Interaction in Lilong Based on Arduino
Role: Ideation, Design, Fabrication, Modeling
Date: 2023
Team: Qiuyu Zhang
Team: Qiuyu Zhang
This project aims to increase the interaction between people, nature and the environment. Due to the policy of removing informal constructions in Shanghai, social activities under the ceremonious entrance space in the historical residential area decreased dramatically. Through investigating people’s various behaviors on rainy days, in the sunshine and at night, sixteen interaction states are categorized for interactive system design.
Using the geometry of circles and triangles to create the linkage mechanism inspired by Theo Jansen to shape a deformable vane, the installation can be fixed into different positions to form a biotic door. It shapes an environment that can generate responses to activities of people and elements of nature by combining environmental sensors with Arduino, including a rain sensor, an ultrasonic distance sensor, two passive infrared sensors and a photoresistor. Through 3D printed technology and testing in actual entrances of the residential area, it reshapes people’s perception and their subsequent behavior could in return be affected by different spatial forms and motion states. It shaped a catalyst that augments people’s experience in traditional entrance space, creating a medium between humans, nature, and the city to revitalize Lilong.
Catalystic Cognition | Door in Traditional Lilong as Threshold
Different Doors in Lilong
Social Activities Related to Lilong Doors
Different Doors in Lilong
Social Activities Related to Lilong Doors
System Design | Interaction Between Nature, Human and Space
Biotic Door Generation | Form and Behavior Mechanism Design
Vane Design
Biotic Door Design
Vane Design
Biotic Door Design
Prototyping | Assembly Process
3D Print Components
Assembly Process
3D Print Components
Assembly Process
Prototyping | Mechanism, Sensors and Actuators Testing
Installed Biotic Door
Details
Actuation Variation | Specific Scenes Interaction Experiment
Physical Model Interaction
Physical Model Interaction
Catalystic Resonance | Revitalization of Traditional Lilong Threshold