Lisa, Leah, Qiao
In order to celebrate Pittsburgh’s new focus on technology and culture, our team is proposing Pittsburgh Delta, a data-driven, informative sculpture that hangs from the Pittsburgh International Airport’s atrium ceiling. This sculpture visually informs Airport visitors about the different events that are happening in the city of Pittsburgh.
For those who are pressured on time, Pittsburgh Delta, will serve as an abstract tessellation (consists of individual moving equilateral triangles) representation of a map of the city of Pittsburgh that calls out different event location hotspots.
For those visitors with a bit more time to explore, they are able to actively interact with the installation for a more legible visualization of the data. After visitors connect to the Airport’s free WIFI through their smartphone, they will be presented with a Pittsburgh Delta ad. This web page will inform visitors about the sculpture and also how to locate it. It will give visitors the ability to read into details about the events that are happening in Pittsburgh through Ticketmaster and Eventbrite.
Currently we are using the Ticketmaster dmaID API. Specifically, we are parsing data for the city of Pittsburgh area based on venue locations and the number of events.
The tessellation map consists of individual moving equilateral triangles. There will be a minimum default movement assigned to all triangle: meaning even if there are no events happening, the map will still maintain a constant movement.
When there are events happening, the venue location data will determine which area on the map will increase beyond the default movement.
The number of events in a specific venue will determine the severity of movement to each individual triangle in that area.
