Resonet Pavillion

‘ResoNet Pavilion’ is commissioned by Sinan Mansions in Shanghai as part of a series of ‘Modern Sinan’ events for the celebration of Chinese New Year in 2017. It consists of a temporary pavilion plus a ‘ResoNet’ attached on the inner surface, an interactive LED light installation. The Pavilion illuminates the public realm in response to vibration stimuli.

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Visitors can come over to take a rest, interact with the LED net and make Spring Festival wishes with their friends and families. At the same time, the Pavilion can be used as a centre stage for hosting some outdoor events.

‘ResoNet’ takes its name from the combination of resonance and network. It employs Low-Fi techniques to visualise the resonance frequencies inherent in the natural environment, via the interaction of the public and surrounding elements detected by an LED net. While the LED net is almost invisible during the daytime, a pavilion constantly transforming colours provides a backdrop background for the LED light, particularly at night, uplifted feeling like the North Pole skylights.

The project has two stages, stage one the translucent polypropylene panels look like an ice sculpture during the Western New Year, and Stage two covers up phoenix feather-like cladding symbols of the year of the rooster before Chinese New Year. The resin panel laminated with a lunar effect film sheet gives a dramatic constantly changing dressing.

Its colour depends on visitors’ viewing perspective and peripheral lighting conditions. The form was inspired by the shape of the Jingle Bell which implies visitors to ring the New Year’s bell. With the cladding of repetitive traditional Chinese coin patterns – square within a circle, the new dressing follows Chinese customs signaling the prosperity and good wealth ahead.

The project aims to explore the boundaries between art, culture, architecture and technology to create physical and ephemeral conditions.