Glow Globs Belysningsinstallation av Virginia Melnyk

Designen Glow Globs Belysningsinstallation av Virginia Melnyk är en högt ansedd vinnare av den mycket prestigefyllda 2021 A' Design Award i Brons i tävlingskategorin Belysningsprodukt- och Armaturdesign.

BronsBelysning· 2021

Glow Globs Belysningsinstallation

av Virginia Melnyk

Klient: Virginia Melnyk Designs

Vinnare av A' Design Award i Brons i kategorin Belysning

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Designen

Om Glow Globs Belysningsinstallation

Glow Globs är en uppblåsbar belysningsinstallation gjord av vitt nylontyg, en fläkt och LED-lampor. Installationen består av tre abstrakta former, som var och en mäter mellan 2,5 och 3 meter i varje riktning. Formerna utvecklades med tredimensionell modellering och inspirerades av rök och luftflöde. Varje form är uppbyggd av 80 till 100 sydda paneler. LED-lampor hänger inuti, så det färgskiftande ljuset sprids mjukt genom tyget. Formerna kollapsar när fläkten stängs av, vilket gör att installationen kan flyttas och sättas upp på andra platser.

Erkännandet

Om A' Design Award i Brons

Glow Globs Belysningsinstallation är vinnare av A' Design Award i Brons, ett högst prestigefyllt erkännande som tilldelas enastående designverk som utmärker sig genom kreativitet, uppfinningsrikedom och klokhet. Bronsvinnare är mycket skickliga och slående kreativa föremål som styrker formgivarnas stora erfarenhet, fantasi och påhittighet. Glow Globs Belysningsinstallation förväntas vara ett högt skattat, beundrat och älskat föremål som är anmärkningsvärt professionellt och innovativt. Detta vinnande verk i A' Design Award i Brons införlivar bästa praxis inom konst, vetenskap, design och teknik och är utmärkt genom sin omsorg om detaljer. Glow Globs Belysningsinstallation tillfredsställer fantastiskt behov, rör vid längtan, charmar känslor och väcker nyfikenhet.

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Erkännanden, teammedlemmar och tekniska detaljer tillhandahållna av designern.

Unika egenskaper: Glow Globs is an inflatable lighting installation, its unique design is deployable as the light fabric collapse with the fan is off. The Design is abstract shapes to spark curiosity and imagination. The shapes at night are illuminated with color changing LED lights. The lights penetrate through the Nylon material giving them a soft glow.
Dimensioner & förpackning: The design consisted of three unique inflatables. Each design was between 3 meters and 2.5 meters in each direction.
Taggar: LED, Inflatable, Lighting, Installation, Deployable, PopUp
Produktionsteknik: The design was created in the computer using 3d modeling. Patterns much like those used to make a dress or piece of clothing were generated and sewn together on a home sewing machine. Each inflatable was made up of between 80 - 100 panels. Consisting of over 400 edges to be sewn together. Each peices was numbered and labeled to be able to stich them to the correct pieces. The inflatables were designed to attach to a special air blower fan used for inflatable sculptures. Led Lights were threaded through the interior of the inflated structure and suspended so to diffuse the light before it is emitted out of the fabric.
Designutmaning: Because the installation is pneumatic, it is important to understand how flat pieces of fabric will inflate. The fans blow in a lot of air and it is important to make sure that all the seams are sewn tightly. And that there are no leaks. At the same point the inflatable is under pressure and if the distribution of forces is uneven large amounts of force on one place may cause issues of pressure and seams to rip or tear. Studies done in Clo3D and Kangaroo for grasshopper, were able to give estimated simulations of where extra strain might occur when pressure is applied.
Forskning: My research is focused on sewing and three dimensional designs. i am interested in approaches to combine sewn forms into the built environment. Often engaging traditional and computation design making methodologies. In this case sewing large scale inflatables with large numbers of pieces methods from parametric computational architecture were adapted. As for the sewing methods from quilting, and dress making were adapted. the combination of making techniques and process of construction resulted in a unique design.
Inspiration: This project was inspired by the character inflatable lawn ornaments so commonly display in many front lawns of American homes during the holidays. But in contrast to the Santa Claus and Frankenstein that we see during the holidays. Glow Globs aspired to create an abstract organic form that would inspire imagination and creative thinking. The design was created in the computer using 3d modeling. Because it is inflated with air the designs were inspired by smoke and animations of airflow.
Projektlängd: The installation is traveling. It was first installed for 3 days at Blink Art Festival in Cincinnati 2019, but can continue to be deployed at other locations and events.
Arbetsflöde: The installation was located in the landscaping in front of the Cincinnati Central Library. Here at night people would engage with the lights and play in the shadows of the colored illuminations.
Teammedlemmar: Virginia Melnyk
Bildkrediteringar: Photo Credits: Virginia Melnyk