Vigilscape Primary Function: Chaw Dawb Huv Cov Kev Cai Tsim Tawm by Ting Han Chen

Vigilscape Primary Function: Chaw Dawb Huv Cov Kev Cai Tsim Tawm by Ting Han Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award Hlau in Tsim Kev Teeb Tsa Duab Kos Virtual thiab Digital Competition Category.

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Vigilscape Primary Function: Chaw Dawb Huv Cov Kev Cai Tsim Tawm

by Ting Han Chen

Client: Play Design Lab

A' Design Award Hlau Winner in Kev Teeb Tsa Digital Category

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The Design

About Vigilscape Primary Function: Chaw Dawb Huv Cov Kev Cai Tsim Tawm

Book Text: Vigilscape hloov ib qho chaw faus neeg ib txwm los ua ib qho chaw nyob ntsiag to thiab muaj meej mom los ntawm cov duab tshuab projection ib puag ncig thiab cov duab huab thiab cov particle uas tsim tawm. Cov xwm txheej qhib tawm ntawm ib lub sij hawm uas ntsuas tau raws li cov kev cai, ua kom muaj kev nce qib sij hawm yam tsis tas yuav tau txais kev mloog los yog kev sib cuam tshuam. Qhov kev tsim no muaj cov hom kev configurable rau cov ntsiab lus kev cai sib txawv, ua rau ib chav tsev tib lub xwm txais tau Buddhist, Christian, thiab lwm yam kev ntseeg cov kev xav los ntawm kev hloov scene ntawm backend, thaum tseem ceev cia kev ua haujlwm nyob rau cov neeg ua haujlwm thiab ib qho chaw ntsiag to rau tsev neeg thiab cov neeg coj kev cai.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hlau

Vigilscape Primary Function: Chaw Dawb Huv Cov Kev Cai Tsim Tawm yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Hlau, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom uas muab rau cov qauv tsim zoo uas ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau ntawm kev ua haujlwm thiab kev lag luam uas xav tau los ntawm cov khoom tsim zoo. Cov neeg yeej Hlau qhia txog kev txawj loj, kev paub tshwj xeeb siab, kev nkag siab ntawm cov kws tshaj lij thiab lub peev xwm tsim ntawm cov neeg tsim. Vigilscape Primary Function: Chaw Dawb Huv Cov Kev Cai Tsim Tawm xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub uas siv tau thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Hlau no sib xyaw cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev lag luam thiab muaj cov yam ntxwv siv tshuab txawj ntse txuas nrog kev paub thiab txuj ci. Vigilscape Primary Function: Chaw Dawb Huv Cov Kev Cai Tsim Tawm tau txais kev hwm vim nws tag nrho thiab tsim los muab kev txhim kho rau lub neej uas pab ua rau lub ntiaj teb zoo dua.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties: A slow-technology immersive space for chanting rituals, this project uses environmental projections and algorithmic cloud-particle scenes unfolding at a measured tempo aligned with ceremonial cadence. Rather than creating a spectacle, the system is designed to provide calmness, dignity, and psychological comfort during moments of farewell.

Its distinctive value lies in enabling one ordinary mortuary room to serve multiple faith-based ritual needs through configurable projection modes and backend-controlled interactive guidance. This allows funeral service staff to quickly adapt the atmosphere and ceremonial content for Buddhist, Christian, and other religious contexts without requiring separate dedicated spaces. By integrating multi-faith flexibility, spatial efficiency, and culturally sensitive experience design, the project offers both operational value for service providers and a more respectful, personalized environment for grieving families.
Dimensions & Packaging: Wall projection installations with edge-blended panoramic playback; particle-driven visuals with programmable parameters (mode selection, tempo, motif density, session duration). Timeline choreography triggers milestone motifs at set intervals.
Tags: virtual installation, digital art installation, projection mapping, generative particles, slow technology, ambient interface, mourning space, ritual design, transitional architecture, culturally adaptive atmosphere
Production Technology: A site-specific three-wall projection environment deployed in the mortuary of Tri-Service General Hospital. Particle-based animations generate culturally attuned atmospheres. Funeral directors select modes (Chinese, Western, Neutral) and run a timeline-based sequence where motifs emerge gradually as symbolic milestones. Ambient soundscapes support contemplative focus without requiring interaction.
Design Challenge: The key challenge was designing support without intrusion in a culturally sensitive setting. The room needed to transform a clinical space into a contemplative atmosphere while avoiding spectacle, distraction, or religious mismatch. Achieving this required slow pacing, restrained visual density, and mode-based adaptability that funeral directors could operate reliably in daily practice.
Research: Type of Research: practice-based design research. Research Objectives: apply slow technology and ambient design to support long mourning rituals. Methodology: site implementation + temporal choreography design. Data Collection and Research Tools Used: observation, informal interviews, photos/diagrams/annotations. Participants or Experiments: mortuary director, funeral staff, families in ritual use. Results: improved sense of temporal progression and cultural fit. Insights and Impacts: configurable, slow-paced atmospheres can reframe mortuary rooms as transitional spaces. Effect: informs emotionally sensitive immersive architecture.
Inspiration: Inspired by the need to ease families’ anxiety in conventional mortuary chanting rooms, the project draws on grief-support research, ritual cadence observation, and slow technology design principles. Generative particle imagery and environmental projection mapping were developed as a controllable time-scale ambience, offering culturally adaptable modes without intrusive interaction.
Project Duration: The project started in Jun 2024 and was completed in Nov 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan, for the mortuary of Tri-Service General Hospital. The installation has been operated during extended chanting ceremonies, with configuration handled by funeral directors according to family preferences and ritual context.
Operation Flow: Operation is intentionally non-intrusive. Staff select one of three cultural modes and start the session. The room then plays a slow, continuous sequence where imagery unfolds over time and milestone motifs appear at intervals, giving families a sense of progression during long chanting rituals. No user interaction is required, preserving ritual attention.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Wonann Funeral Technology Co., Ltd. and Tri-Service General Hospital Mortuary