A Dream ʻo Ka Hoʻohana ʻana I Nā Kukui Uila by Naai-Jung Shih

A Dream ʻo Ka Hoʻohana ʻana I Nā Kukui Uila by Naai-Jung Shih is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2017 A' Design Award Keleawe in Hoʻolālā Hana Noʻeau a me Hoʻokomo Hana Noʻeau Competition Category.

KeleaweHana Noʻeau· 2017

A Dream ʻo Ka Hoʻohana ʻana I Nā Kukui Uila

by Naai-Jung Shih

Client: Naai-Jung Shih

A' Design Award Keleawe Winner in Hana Noʻeau Category

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The Design

About A Dream ʻo Ka Hoʻohana ʻana I Nā Kukui Uila

Manaʻo ka mea hoʻolālā i kahi moeʻuhane a nānā ʻole. ʻAʻohe hiki ke hopu ʻia, a ʻike maoli nō naʻe. Ua hoʻolālā ʻo ia i kēia hoʻonohonoho ʻana i ala e noʻonoʻo ai i ka metaphor o ke ʻano surrealistic i loko o ka moeʻuhane. Hāʻawi kēlā me kēia lālā pelekikena i kahi ʻāpana o ka moʻo hoʻohālikelike. Hoʻokomo ʻo ia i ka hoʻonohonoho hoʻonohonoho kau ma luna o ke kumu i ʻike ʻia me nā kumuwaiwai māmā e piʻi i luna me ke ʻano ʻole o ka nui o ka lewa.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Keleawe

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā A Dream ʻo Ka Hoʻohana ʻana I Nā Kukui Uila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe, he ʻike hoʻohanohano nui loa i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā kūʻokoʻa i ʻike ʻia ma o ka hana noʻeau, ka akamai a me ka makakoho. He mau hana mākaukau a hana noʻeau kupaianaha nā lanakila Keleawe e hōʻoia ana i ka ʻike nui, ka noʻonoʻo a me ka maʻalea o kā lākou poʻe hoʻolālā. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā A Dream ʻo Ka Hoʻohana ʻana I Nā Kukui Uila he mea i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia, he ʻoihana a hou loa. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Keleawe e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka hana noʻeau, ka ʻepekema, ka hoʻolālā a me ka ʻenehana, a maikaʻi no kona nānā ʻana i nā kikoʻī. Hoʻokō maikaʻi ka hoʻolālā A Dream ʻo Ka Hoʻohana ʻana I Nā Kukui Uila i nā pono, hoʻopā i ka makemake, hoʻohiwahiwa i nā manaʻo a huki i ka makemake e ʻike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: A dream is weightless and transparent. It can hardly be caught, and yet it is so realistic. The entire setting is placed on a transparent base with a light source projects upward to make it feel weightless like floating in the air. The installation is also a metaphor of the surrealistic nature of a dream. Each curved linear form contributes to a part of a propagating dream.
Dimensions & Packaging: 80*70*35 cm
Tags: lighting installation, dynamic form, metaphor
Production Technology: The design needs a free-form linear member to mimic the blurred boundary of a metaphor. The member needs to be functioned like a canvas for a dreamer to paint upon. The color should be white. After a series of brainstorming searches, a hanger seems a perfect choice.
The installation is hand-chained. Several tests were conducted to the possible connectors, such as steel cables, abs RP filaments, and general ropes. Cable was a good choice at the first place because it held each hanger in position. But it is not transparent. Eventually a transparent 3 mm plastic string was used and surprisingly it held each member in position under tension.
Design Challenge: A pair of linear form is interlocked with two holes on each component for connection. There should be four cables and eight connections when the head and end of the installation meets each other. A new method is developed to layout all four cables on the same path and to chain all the components in one single cable as a closed loop. The development of a close loop has a significant meaning, since a dream seems does not have a specific starting point or ending point.
Research: This is the third design of a series sincerely devotions. Each design contributes a profound study of orders, for elements and light sources. The first two were conducted in a linear form to contrast the body curvature and the end section. The composition of different shapes was also applied. The last one selected a loop to represent an order of form.
Inspiration: The inspiration came from the metaphor of a dream.
Project Duration: This project took about one month and was made in Taipei, Taiwan.
Operation Flow: This light installation is designed to put on a table with the top part slightly lower than eye level. By following the profile, a person can traverse the entire setting inside and outside, up and down, or from any orientation. The relative location between the box and the installation is changeable.
Image Credits: all by Naai Jung Shih