Cava A Instalación De Luz by Yingri Guan

Cava A Instalación De Luz by Yingri Guan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronce in Deseño Xerativo, Algorítmico, Paramétrico e Asistido por IA Competition Category.

BronceXerativo· 2020

Cava A Instalación De Luz

by Yingri Guan

Client: ARiceStudio

A' Design Award de Bronce Winner in Xerativo Category

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The Design

About Cava A Instalación De Luz

A través da combinación de fórmulas matemáticas, ángulos de formación de estruturas minerais de cova, datos de composición de minerais, xeráronse unha serie de imaxes vectoriais mediante o deseño computacional. Yingri Guan visualiza os patróns das covas a través de deseños xerativos. Ela transforma estes datos en instalacións tridimensionais.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronce

Cava A Instalación De Luz gañou o A' Design Award de Bronce, un recoñecemento altamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños sobresaíntes que se distinguen pola creatividade, o enxeño e a sagacidade. Os gañadores Bronce son artefactos amplamente hábiles e sorprendentemente creativos que autentican a vasta experiencia, imaxinación e enxeño dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Cava A Instalación De Luz sexa un obxecto moi apreciado, admirado e querido, notablemente profesional e innovador. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Bronce incorpora as mellores prácticas da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía, e é excelente pola súa atención ao detalle. Cava A Instalación De Luz satisfai espléndidamente as necesidades, toca os desexos, encanta os sentimentos e atrae a curiosidade.

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