Ice Core Visualization د یخ کور لید کیندنه by Yingri Guan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزه in د ښکلو هنرونو او هنري نصبونو ډیزاین Competition Category.
اوسپنهښکلی هنر· 2021
Ice Core Visualization د یخ کور لید کیندنه
by Yingri Guan
Client: ARiceStudio
د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزه Winner in ښکلی هنر Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #105575The Design
About Ice Core Visualization د یخ کور لید کیندنه
د یخ کور لید کیندنه یوه هنري تنصیب ده چې د کاربن ډای اکسایډ کچو او د نړیوال اقلیم ترمنځ اړیکه ښیي. دا تنصیب له اتو اکریلیک نلونو څخه جوړ شوی چې په طبقاتي جیل موم ډک شوي دي. هر نل ۸ انچه قطر او ۳ فوټه اوږدوالی لري. هره د موم طبقه د یو زر کلن دورې لپاره اوسط ډېټا نمایندګي کوي، چې په ټوليزه توګه تیرو څلور سوه زره کلونه رانغاړي. یو خړ رنګ سکیم د کاربن ډای اکسایډ توپیر ښیي. دوهم سکیم د تودوخې لپاره سور رنګ او د یخني لپاره شین رنګ کاروي ترڅو د تودوخې تغیر وښایي.
The Recognition
About the د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزه
Ice Core Visualization د یخ کور لید کیندنه د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزې ګټونکی دی، یوه ویاړلې پېژندنه چې ښو ډیزاینونو ته ورکول کېږي چې هغه مسلکي او صنعتي اړتیاوې پوره کوي چې له ښه ډیزاین شویو جوړښتونو څخه تمه کېږي. د اوسپنې ګټونکي د خپلو جوړوونکو لویه مهارت، لوړه تخصص، کارپوهانه پوهه او خلاقي وړتیا ښيي. له Ice Core Visualization د یخ کور لید کیندنه څخه تمه کېږي چې یو ډېر ارزښتناک، ستایل شوی او ګران جوړښت وي چې عملي او نوښتګر دی. دا د اوسپنې A' Design Award جایزې ګټونکی ډیزاین د صنعت غوره کړنلارې یو ځای کوي او وړ تخنیکي ځانګړتیاوې لري چې له پوهې او استعداد سره تړلي دي. Ice Core Visualization د یخ کور لید کیندنه د خپل دقت له امله درناوی کېږي او د ژوند د کیفیت داسې ښه والی وړاندې کولو لپاره ډیزاین شوی چې نړۍ یو ښه ځای ګرځولو کې مرسته کوي.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Ice Core brings together the aesthetics of layers of ice with the immense amount of weather information core samples contain. It features eight acrylic tubes filled with layered gel wax, with each layer denoting the average data contained within a thousand-year sample.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Each ice core tube is 8 inches in diameter and 3 feet in length
- Tags
- Ice Core, Art, Installation, Visualizations, Generative
- Production Technology
- First the data set is obtained from NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Below shows the data set used in diagram format based on the Vostok Petit data. Carbon dioxide in comparison of global temperature variation is chosen. Generally carbon dioxide production is related to burning of carbon and other energy consumption activities. While global warming is closely related to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere especially carbon dioxide level.
- Design Challenge
- I was brainstorming along the line of creating something semi-transparent, which lends close resemblance to original ice cores while giving the flexibility of making it layer by layer. Therefore, the process of making wax candles came in handy. Hence, I melted layers of wax with the measured amount of dye is poured into the tube layer by layer. I divided the acrylic tube into four sections, and each tube represents a hundred thousand years. Then I further divided each tube into a hundred layers. Therefore each layer of the wax represents average data over a thousand years.
- Research
- A greyscale color scheme depicts the carbon dioxide variation over the last four hundred thousand years. In comparison, a color scheme based on the weather map describes temperature variations. Red is associated with heat; blue indicates freezing temperature. The goal to show temperature variation. When four tubes are displayed side by side, we can see that the variation corresponds. If more carbon dioxide is present in the global environment, the higher the temperature. Inversely, the lighter content indicates a lower carbon dioxide production and therefore followed by a generally colder climate.
- Inspiration
- Ice cores are long and condensed tubes that are extracted from the extremely cold areas where snow fell and accumulated over the years with minimal melting and eventually compressed to ice sheets. The layers of snow contain rich information about our global climate. For example, dust, ash, pollen, bubbles of atmospheric gas and radioactive substances. This project is particularly concerned with carbon dioxide content in the gaseous bubbles trapped inside each layer of ice.
- Project Duration
- Project started in Buffalo since 2012 and complete in San Francisco Bay Area by 2018
- Operation Flow
- A very interesting aspect of this making is the tactility of the whole process. I wanted the audience to have a direct correlation to what they see in front of them and appreciate the beauty of the ice core as I have been. Also, it is observed that there are four general cycles in terms of variation of the global climate. Currently, according to the trend, we are moving towards the time period that temperature is predicted to go up. Therefore it lends question to that if global warming is a manmade phenomenon or it is part of the global climate change cycle.
- Team Members
- Yingri Guan
- Image Credits
- Photographer Yingri Guan, Variations, 2014
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