Hitobito Lighting Installation by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan |
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| DESIGN NAME: Hitobito PRIMARY FUNCTION: Lighting Installation INSPIRATION: The design inspiration is where people gather and feel the diversity of Taipei City. The weaved bamboo façade and white-painted steel pipes represent the traditional Asian crafting method meeting with architectural structure. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: HitoBito is the art installation created for the lantern festival in Taipei City in 2023. The structural design draws inspiration from the Chinese character of a person, which is two members supporting each other. The two small entrances, which face one of the main entrances to the festival venue, merge into one space where people can audit the projection on the ground. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Major flow of visitors is located on the narrow side entrance of the installation. Visitors enter the space individually, and meet at the larger space where has a projection of motion graphic. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The design started in November 2022 and finished construction in January 2023 in Taipei City. The Lantern festival was open to public in February 2023. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Manually bent steel pipe structure is cladded with 1cm bamboo dowels in its width. A projector is installed at the center of installation to project the motion graphic onto the floor. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 9.8 meter width, 7.8 meter depth, and 3.5 meter height TAGS: Art Installation, Lighting Installation, Bamboo, Taipei, Taiwan RESEARCH ABSTRACT: This art installation is the part of Taiwan lantern festival hosted in Taipei city in February 2023. The event is integrated in the Taipei urban fabric with interaction with the visitors in the city. Hito bito is selected as one of new immigrant installation to celebrate diversity of Taiwan with many nations to work and live together. CHALLENGE: The installation is the combination of industrial material and traditional Asian bamboo crafting. The organic shape of installation is composed with three dimensional curvature. Thus, the weaved surface with bamboo dowels are adopted with steel pipe structure to wrap the installation. ADDED DATE: 2023-02-18 09:12:02 TEAM MEMBERS (4) : Daisuke Nagatomo, Minnie Jan, Jenny Yeh and Hao Sung IMAGE CREDITS: Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan, 2022. |
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NAME: MisoSoupDesign PROFILE: MisoSoupDesign is Taipei based design Studio let by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan. Their design incorporates new ideas with digital tectonics and sustainability technologies. They also apply the systematic way of thinking in design, and discover the surprising moment when form meets function. MisoSoupDesign produces diverse area of design for architecture, interior, furniture/product and corporate branding. MisoSoupDesign has won several international design competition and design awards, and published on books and magazine around the world. |
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