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Interactive Cube
Interactive Cube
Hitherto, nearly all artificial structure are rectangular shaped figure, in order to overcome the great nature’s violence and to be built easily.
But we are made by god with curve:every part of our body is of curved figure.From the caves in the mountains, where our ancestors lived in, to the womb, where we’d lived before our born, streamlined space makes it comfortable and snug for us to be in.
That’s how the concept comes to us.
What if we build a space that has a strong combination of both rectangular figure and streamlined inner space?Won’t that result in a perfect form of both existing and utilize?
Given the mission to build a device that could motivate the atmosphere of the hall of CAU, we designed the 2-meter-high interactive cube,which could sparkle its facade with the current rhythm as long as you plug in a music player to it.
Type:Team Installation WorkSite: 3rd Floor, School of Architecture and Urban PlanningDate: March-December,2012Tutor: TONG Hui, XIA YunMain Designer: JIANG Yin, BAO Yingnan, PAN Ziqi, LING Chen, WANG Yang
Sitting area densified to fit human comfort
Documentation Video
Phase 1: SCM
During the first phase, we used a single chip microcomputer to decode the spectrum of the music being played, and turn the signal into visible static and dynamic patterns. As the use sit down and plug in his mp3 player to the controlling board, a beautiful facade will show up right in front of him. On the meantime, the built-in speaker will play the music with great quality. In this way we make the cube an element that could motivate the atmosphere on the 3rd floor of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Shuttered form language secures the visibility of landscape beyond
Documentation Video
Phase 2: Arduino
Several months later, when our team went back to check the installation, we found that the SCM board was stolen. To maintain the function of the cube, we decided to fix it with ARDUINO open-source board. With my scripting ability and knowledge with interactive modules, we thought that maybe this time we can make it even more interesting with the help of different units, including ultrasonic unit to detect the distance between people and the cube, infrared unit to detect human body’s existence, microphone unit to detect the noise that people are making, and power transformer that turns 220v alternating current into direct current. By coding in ARDUINO software, I made the cube sensitive to those signals above, and was able to turn those signals into different types of patterns again, but this time, more complex.
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