Vigilscape ジェネレーティブ・リチュアル・サンクチュアリ by Ting Han Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in バーチャル・デジタルアートインスタレーションデザイン Competition Category.
鉄デジタルインスタレーション· 2026
Vigilscape ジェネレーティブ・リチュアル・サンクチュアリ
Client: Play Design Lab
A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in デジタルインスタレーション Category
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About Vigilscape ジェネレーティブ・リチュアル・サンクチュアリ
Vigilscapeは、環境投影とジェネレーティブな雲やパーティクルの映像表現を通じて、従来の葬祭空間を静謐で尊厳ある空間へと再構築します。情景は儀式の流れに調和した穏やかなテンポで展開し、注意や操作を求めることなく時間的な進行を生み出します。本デザインはさまざまな儀礼の文脈に応じた設定可能なモードを備えており、バックエンドでのシーン切り替えによって、一つの空間で仏教やキリスト教をはじめとする多様な信仰のニーズに対応できます。同時に、スタッフにとっての運用上の柔軟性と、ご遺族や参列者のための静謐な雰囲気を両立させます。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鉄賞
Vigilscape ジェネレーティブ・リチュアル・サンクチュアリは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Vigilscape ジェネレーティブ・リチュアル・サンクチュアリは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Vigilscape ジェネレーティブ・リチュアル・サンクチュアリは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。
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
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