Gold Fine Arts and Art Installation Design · 2021
Heaven Bloom Kinetic Installation
by Whyixd
- A' Design Award 2021 Gold Winner in Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Whyixd
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 102,769
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About Heaven Bloom Kinetic Installation
Heaven Bloom is a kinetic installation placed in the lobby of a building inspired by nature in Taichung City, Taiwan. The work is composed of 144 mechanical metal flowers made of aluminium and stainless steel. Different finishes were applied to the metal to create special textures and colours. Each flower contains more than 50 mechanical components and is driven by a motor. The flowers open out of the wall surface and sway to the background music. Four melodies relate to the four seasons, so the moving flowers form a near-natural scene indoors.
Heaven Bloom Kinetic Installation by WHYIXD represents a distinguished achievement within the contemporary field of kinetic and site-responsive art, demonstrating how precision engineering and poetic material sensibility can converge to create immersive spatial experiences that honor natural growth patterns while embracing technological sophistication. The installation appears to draw upon multiple artistic lineages, from the suspended mobiles of mid-twentieth-century kinetic pioneers to the algorithmic nature studies of contemporary parametric designers, synthesizing these influences into a cohesive visual statement that transforms architectural space into contemplative environment. The work's chromatic strategy, progressing from warm metallic tones suggesting harvest abundance toward cooler silver and white registers evoking frost or moonlight, establishes a temporal narrative within static form, inviting readings of seasonal passage, life cycles, or the gradual transformation of organic matter. Technically, the installation demonstrates remarkable calibration in its arrangement of individual floret units, each positioned to maximize light interaction while maintaining compositional coherence across the aggregate form. The choice of Calacatta marble as backdrop proves particularly felicitous, its organic veining patterns establishing visual rhyme with the installation's biomorphic vocabulary while its polished surface contributes to the multiplication of reflected light that animates the space. The mirror-finished ceiling panels above create an inverted echo of the work, suggesting roots extending skyward or perhaps the reflection of blossoms upon still water, amplifying the installation's contemplative resonance. Viewers might consider how the boundary between natural and artificial dissolves within this carefully orchestrated environment, where engineered precision serves organic evocation and architectural formality yields to poetic meditation upon growth, transformation, and the gentle persistence of beauty across time.
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- Unique Properties
- The work hangs on a building constructed by GoldenJade development corporation, along with WOHA, a singapore-based firm. The building itself is inspired by nature and led to the idea of creating an installation that imitates flowers. Whyixd intended to sow the seeds of the flowers into the concrete wall, blooming out of the surface and becoming a dynamic piece. The 144 mechanical metal flowers sway to the rhythm of the lobby’s background music.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Each flower of size 340mm x 330mm x 120mm, when closed, opens to a size of 340mm x 360mm x 160mm in full bloom.
- Tags
- Kinetic Sculpture, Art, Installation, Interior design, Public Art
- Production Technology
- Each flower of the work is consist of more than 50 pieces mechanical components .
The installation used aluminium and stainless steel, different finishes were applied to metal in order to produce special textures and colors . And motors drive the mechanical to operate. - Design Challenge
- The installation was set up on 7 meter-high marble facade so we need to cooperate with the construction company,such as cutting marble holes at precise position, installing wires behind the wall. And it is very challenging to develop the software system to control 144 motors at the same time. In the end, we develop a customized interface for generating motion for all the kinetic flowers in real-time.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2017 and finished in August 2019 , and was positioned in the lobby of a building by Golden Jade Development Corp. in Taichung City, Taiwan.
- Operation Flow
- The installations are set to four different melodies corresponding to the four seasons the ambient sounds collected from endemic species in Taiwan. Different patterns and movements allow the blooming flowers create a near-natural mesmeric scenario indoors, freezing moments in time, building a simulation of a unique phenomena in nature.
- Research
- The study of the shape of Nanhu Rhododendron, the blooming movement of the flowers.We made different versions of motors and mechanical design to improve the mechanical smoothness.
- Inspiration
- The work is inspired by the special plant "Nanhu Rhododendron", which only grows in one of 100 mountain peaks in Taiwan "Nanhu Mountain". The Nanhu Rhododendron is adaptive in extreme climate on high mountains—it appears rusty yellow color before it blooms.However, when it’s in full bloom the flower appears like white snowflakes all over around the mountain peak.
We believe that this work could bear any poor conditions but still bloom elegantly, responding to the vitality of Taiwan. - Image Credits
- Design:Whyixd
Client:Golden Jade Construction
Sound Design: Ami Tseng , Hsu Tzu-Chuan
Video Directed,Photographed & Edited:Liu Che Chun
Photography:Koumin Lee