Cava Light Installation by Yingri Guan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Generative, Algorithmic, Parametric and AI-Assisted Design Competition Category.
BronzeGenerative· 2020
Cava Light Installation
by Yingri Guan
Client: ARiceStudio
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Generative Category
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About Cava Light Installation
Through combining mathematical formulas, cave mineral structural formation angles, mineral composition data, a series of vector images were generated through computational design. Yingri Guan visualizes cave patterns through generative designs. She transforms these data into three-dimensional installations.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Cava Light Installation is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Cava Light Installation is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Cava Light Installation splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The series of designs is mainly inspired by cave patterns and formations.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The main focus in designing this work is to explore. I want to explore different ways of data visualization. The other part is to explore materials. How material combinations in different formats can generate different effects to create physical visualizations.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
The future plan for this award-winning design is to explore further on subjects with the same property to cave formations.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This project is generated using mathematical methods to visualize cave patterns and formation. Caves are formed by water going through rocks and deposit minerals through this process. This piece expresses this formation process while abstract the relationship between the patterns in the cave and also different rocks.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 228 mm x Depth 62 mm x Height 508 mm
- Tags
- generative, abstract, light, LED, cave, imagination, design, art, visualization
- Production Technology
- This Cava series is realized through, first generating a series of images and vectors based on the analytical processes of the cave formations. Then those shapes are etched onto acrylic glass using a laser cutter. The final process is to assemble together the etched acrylic glass, LED lights and the pedestals.
- Design Challenge
- During the process, the most challenging aspect was how to abstract naturally occurring visual patterns and formations into an abstract mathematical formula that can be implemented and substitute using different values to create different images.
- Research
- The initial research was carried out through traveling to the mountains and seeing the physical caves myself. I was totally in awe of how these rocks were formed. Afterward, a few sessions of online reading and coding explorations were carried out. Once I have figured out the situation, then mathematical formula was applied to the different values to figure out the actual cave objects.
- Inspiration
- This piece is inspired by the cave formations and different patterns in the caves. The cave generation is a long and iterative process. It's completely organic.
- Project Duration
- This series of artwork spans across 6 months to complete and was created in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Operation Flow
- These lights could be installed in houses, interior spaces and so on. They can be installed singularly or in different numbers to accommodate what's the best spatially.
- Patents
- IP pending
- Team Members
- Yingri Guan
- Image Credits
- Yingri Guan, 2019
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