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Diffusion Choir

Client: Sosolimited

Architect: de Architedkten Cie

Year of Built: 2006

The Diffusion Choir consists with four hundred folding elements that celebrates the organic movement of an invisible flock of birds. Each of the element is able to open and close independently. There’s a consitant simulation of birds over the course of each hour. Smaller groups of birds coalesce into a single entity. The birds collaborated to perform a virtual choreographed gesture across the space.

The reason of the selection is because it’s close relationship with the parametric design workflow that I usually do in architectural practices. In the coding process, driving particles (aka the flock of birds in this project) are assigned as driving variables that initiate the change happening in the moving elements. They respond to the movement of the driving particles by calculating the distance and some other features of the “birds” by opening and closing. In such matrix, the large group had formed an elegant dance of waves that attrack the attention of the whole room, also evaporate a sense of pleasing tranquility.

 

http://sansumbrella.com/works/2016/diffusion-choir/