REFRACT_Interactive Architecture | RISD | Digital Constructs Fall 2011

Summary:  An installation piece using acrylic, zipties, fishing line, iPhone accelerometers, light sensors, and radio. A wonderful collaboration with Christian Poules and Alex Diaz.
 
REFRACT @ BROWN UNIVERSITY GRANOFF CENTER
[2012 MARCH]
Selected for exhibition in Cohen Gallery.

Concept

Selected for RISD Gelman Gallery [12.11] and
Brown University Granoff Center Cohen Gallery
Main Exhibition [3.12]

REFRACT is designed to embrace and deploy the phenomena of light. Triangulated planar surfaces of acrylic modules are the receivers of reflection and refraction from precise folds, which respond to light in an entirely different, more concentrated manner. The transparent acrylic has the capability of existing as both seen and unseen, dependent upon the presence of light.

Natural and synthetic sources of light accentuate the refractive characteristics produced by the acrylic material. Naturally, through its exposure to sun light. Synthetically, by the means of installed LED bulbs that are triggered by movement and light intensities read by an iPhone accelerometer and AMBI light sensor hidden in a chair. These sensors are wirelessly linked to the LEDs on the acrylic structure through radio frequencies programmed through Arduino.