DESIGN NAME: Linear Flora
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Lantern Installation
INSPIRATION: Inspired by plant morphology and mathematic nature of the flower bougainvillea, the flower of Pingtung County, Linear Flora is rooted with the number sequence of the plant growth.
Apart from the three bougainvillea petals seen from below the artwork, variations and the multiples of number three could be spotted in different aspects, perfectly respond to bougainvillea, when each cluster of three is surrounded by three or six bracts.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Taiwan Lantern Festival is an annual event hosted by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Taiwan Lantern Festival, Lighting design artist Ray Teng Pai was invited by Cultural Affairs Department of Pingtung County to create an unconventional lantern sending a message of transforming the heritage of the festival and connecting it with the future.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: For the 30th anniversary of Lantern Festival, It is expected crowds of visitors would come and walk around the artwork, thus the Lighting Pattern Change over time to create a dynamic atmosphere. Furthermore, for being a polyhedron, Linear Flora is perfect to be observed different angle and underneath, for finding strong sense of symmetry in it.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in November 2018 in Taipei and Finished in March 2019 in Pingtung, and was exhibited in Pingtung in March for the Taiwan Lantern Festival.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The body of Linear Flora is consist of 396 tubes of aluminium, which are three essential parts belongs to Ray Teng Pai's earlier mass produced work "Linear Task Light". The team used the cable-suspension system and three steel pillars to hang the Flora body, and complex electrical wiring to illuminate the color changing LED lights.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Diameter: 11000 mm x Height: 6000 mm
TAGS: Linear, Light, sculpture, Art, Installation
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The study of the morphology of bougainvillea, the mathematic nature behind it. And the design team made scale models to better understand the structure and the electrical wiring.
CHALLENGE: We like to hang the flora body by minimal material, thus used cable and steel to developed a suspension system. And this is very challenging to make the entire LED bars to light up due to the fact that there are very small space for electric wiring in the linear structure.
ADDED DATE: 2019-03-07 17:05:05
TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Ray Teng Pai and Shu Ching
IMAGE CREDITS: Ray Teng Pai, 2018.
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