Pulse Munus Pulsus by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Ars Pulchra Competition Category.
AesArs Pulchra· 2022
Pulse Munus Pulsus
by Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan
Client: MisoSoupDesign
Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Ars Pulchra Category
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The Design
About Pulse Munus Pulsus
Textus Libri: Pulsus est machinatio luminaria facta ad Festum Laternarum Taiwanense anno 2022 in horto nationali Weiwuying Kaohsiung sito. Haec machinatio affectus animi immigrantium novorum per lucem et sonum exprimit. Structura ex tubis ferreis composita est, reti fibroso in singulis tubis inter anulum superiorem et basim undulatam affixo. Taeniae luminis LED digitaliter moderantur ut musicam contextam operi comitentur. Aedicula sole occidente illuminatur, et spectaculum luminis trium minutorum omni triginta minutorum spatio praebetur. Pulsus septem metra lata, septem metra et octo decimas partes alta profunda, et quinque metra et octo decimas partes alta metitur.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum
Pulse Munus Pulsus victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur Pulse Munus Pulsus rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. Pulse Munus Pulsus necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Pulse incorporates digital technology with the organic form of structure to represent the emotional states. As the main lighting installation for the new immigrants theme, the lighting installation is located in the national Weiwuying park, Kaohsiung during the Taiwan Lantern Festival 2022.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 7 meter width, 7.8 meter depth, 5.8 meter height
- Tags
- Art Installation, Pavilion, Lighting Installation, White, Structure
- Production Technology
- The structure mainly employs steel tubes in different diameters, allocated adequately with structural loads. The fiber mesh is installed on each steel tube that connects the top ring and bottom waved structure. The LED light strip and the bottom steel structure are digitally controlled to match the background sounds.
- Design Challenge
- The most challenging aspect of this project is to integrate digital lighting with a physical steel structure. However, lighting scenarios and structural design were nicely coordinated to overcome the challenges.
- Research
- Pulse visualizes the emotional states of immigrants when they enter a new realm. It appears to be still, yet sometimes beats harshly and sometimes expresses slowly. Migrating to a new environment has all kinds of feelings, including hope, excitement, nervousness, fear, and joy. There are many to expect during the process, difficulties to deal with, and challenges to face. These emotional waves are critical elements of a new journey, yet unable to share with new neighbors. Therefore, in the theme of new immigrants, we express the emotional condition with digitalized lighting and music with the surface of the metamorphosed pulse wave.
- Inspiration
- The concept of Pulse is to digitize the emotional into light signal. The LED stripe coheres with the background music, which specifically created for this installation.
- Project Duration
- 2021.10 Design Proposal
2021.11 Design Development
2022.01 Prefabrication in Taoyuan
2022.02 Completion in Kaohsiung - Operation Flow
- The pavilion gets illuminated during the sunset moment. Then, the LED light stripe turns its color while the background sound starts. Once in thirty minutes, there are 3 minutes lighting show to express the emotional state of new immigrants.
- Patents
- N/A
- Team Members
- Daisuke Nagatomo
Minnie Jan
Zoe Li
Hua Kou - Image Credits
- N/A
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