Bronze Lighting Projects and Light Art Design · 2023
Hitobito Lighting Installation
by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan
- A' Design Award 2023 Bronze Winner in Lighting Projects and Light Art Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: MisoSoupDesign
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 26,600
- Verification code 2E011F740E · Verify this award
About Hitobito Lighting Installation
Hitobito is a lighting installation created for a lantern festival held in Taipei City in 2023. The structure is inspired by the Chinese character for person, formed by two members that support each other. Two narrow entrances lead visitors inside, where the paths merge into one larger space. A projector at the center casts a motion graphic onto the floor. A manually bent steel pipe frame is painted white and clad with woven bamboo dowels of one centimeter width. The installation measures 9.8 meters wide, 7.8 meters deep and 3.5 meters high.
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- Unique Properties
- HitoBito is the art installation created for the lantern festival in Taipei City in 2023. The structural design draws inspiration from the Chinese character of a person, which is two members supporting each other. The two small entrances, which face one of the main entrances to the festival venue, merge into one space where people can audit the projection on the ground.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 9.8 meter width, 7.8 meter depth, and 3.5 meter height
- Tags
- Art Installation, Lighting Installation, Bamboo, Taipei, Taiwan
- Production Technology
- Manually bent steel pipe structure is cladded with 1cm bamboo dowels in its width. A projector is installed at the center of installation to project the motion graphic onto the floor.
- Design Challenge
- The installation is the combination of industrial material and traditional Asian bamboo crafting. The organic shape of installation is composed with three dimensional curvature. Thus, the weaved surface with bamboo dowels are adopted with steel pipe structure to wrap the installation.
- Project Duration
- The design started in November 2022 and finished construction in January 2023 in Taipei City. The Lantern festival was open to public in February 2023.
- Operation Flow
- Major flow of visitors is located on the narrow side entrance of the installation. Visitors enter the space individually, and meet at the larger space where has a projection of motion graphic.
- Research
- This art installation is the part of Taiwan lantern festival hosted in Taipei city in February 2023. The event is integrated in the Taipei urban fabric with interaction with the visitors in the city. Hito bito is selected as one of new immigrant installation to celebrate diversity of Taiwan with many nations to work and live together.
- Inspiration
- The design inspiration is where people gather and feel the diversity of Taipei City. The weaved bamboo façade and white-painted steel pipes represent the traditional Asian crafting method meeting with architectural structure.