the project is a walk through installation of an 8m high gate composed of 5000 handcrafted paper wind mills aligned on pipes. These pipes had small holes, skillfully positioned next to each windmill to allow it to rotate. through this installation, the designer wanted to represent the earths most versatile element, wind.
The heart of the installation was a complex integrated computer program that controlled the wind, sound (a bypass of the wind) and light.
The air was sequentially controlled through solenoid valves on the pipes in a random manner. Thus, causing ripples of movement across the installation.
The lighting was positioned above the installation and programmed to cyclically dim and brighten.
The lighting on the outside rows had narrow beam angles and in the inside had wider beam angles, thus casting shadows when lit. This reinforced the architects’ concept as the light appeared to play with the wind flow and gave us the impression of a breathing piece.
The motion of the windmills was promoted or demoted by the lights that are casted on them, which is the natural tendency of things in the forest.