Product Design

ChAir


An Interactive Chair

Concept

Year 2014Youtube

An air-reading ‘chair’ illumination that transforms according to the relationships between people. This work is a bench-type ‘air-reading illumination’ that uses the stone benches installed in ZOU-NO-HANA Park to transform the environment in terms of light intensity and colour according to the relationships between the people sitting on them.

Under normal conditions, the benches glow in different colours and function as an illumination that mimics a stone wire frame. When visitors sit down, the system determines whether they are a couple or friends, depending on when they sit down.

For example, if couples are seated in the same colour, or if they are in a closer relationship, the light intensity is gradually lowered to enhance the mood of the visitors.

The stone benches installed in ZOU-NO-HANA Park were once used as embankments in the area, and their texture and shape are etched with ‘time’.

In order to allow visitors to feel the flow of time at night, when not seated, the stone outlines emit a dim, repetitive light, allowing visitors to visually feel the gentle waves of the sea and the flow of time.

Gallery


Business in charge

コンセプト、空間デザイン、ハードウェアデザイン、システム構築


Location

スマートイルミネーション横浜 2014

日時
2014.10.30 – 11.03
場所
神奈川県横浜市 象の鼻公園

Credits

Collaborator

Kentaro Tetsuka


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