Moving Walls
partner: Melissa Miron
This project utilized Arduino, open source software, to seek out and design how a wall can become more than static. How it might engage, follow and act as an aesthetic element for a user. Our exhibition consisted of only three panels but our idea is to incorporate this into a paneling system of twenty plus panels. We used sensors to pick up from which direction an individual might come from. Depending on which direction the individual, that unconsciously becomes the user, engages the panels, the panels turn to the user one at a time with a three-degree difference in movement. This was meant to act as a welcoming and active aesthetic element to an otherwise banal wall. Should two people enter from both directions at the same time the panels would both turn in and the central panel would react randomly in a fifteen-degree movement for five seconds of attention. Ultimately we would like to further refine the process to incorporate more panels and to used video so that the paneling system can track and react to passerbies. |
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