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Silver Prize

Title:

Morphing Landscape

Comcept:

In building environment or campus, people are incredibly flexible and can have a dialogue or virtually anywhere. Informal engagements and conversations provide ideal ground for idea or opinion exchange. The informality of sitting or leaning gesture creates dynamics and relax atmosphere for social interaction between people. Places, like lobbies, corridors, with high visibility invite people to drop in and join conversations. Traditionally, little is done to accommodate these threshold activities in architecture, and conversations are typically hurried and list in hallway traffic. Morphing Landscape is a dynamic partition system for invitation of social activity, not a "divider" in architectural space. Using low-tech device as a medium to trigger the unexpected engagement, banal walls are outfitted with hidden furniture to facilitate group work and informal conversation between people on the corridor which is always neglected in space planning. Thus, furniture becomes a part of the element in the architectural apace and creates the possibility of landscape on the wall. Morphing Landscape, a simple responsive system, includes silicon rubber film, infrared sensor, a seat/ support made of casting aluminum, and AC/DC motor.

Coment:

This is a design that creates an environment fostering communication among people, such as that found on a college campus. In recent space design trends, the focus has been on creating community spaces more acclimated for human communication, such as corridors and passages, in addition to office rooms where desks are aligned in a row. This innovative installation wall has the potential to generate an environment where creativity and ideas of the information-based 21st century society will be born.

Profile

Name of Applicant:

Jeng-Neng Fan

Date of Birth:

1966/8/31

Sex:

Male

Nationality:

Taiwan

Residence:

USA

Academic History:

Master of Industrial Design Pratt Institute, New York, USA

Occupation:

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Awards:

2001 First Prize, the Second "THE WAY OF WORKING - LAS MOBILI PRIZE", Italy 1995 Honorable Mention Award in Concept, International Design Review Selection, New York, USA

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