Starry Night 发光兰花 by Seed Coleus Greenhouse

Starry Night 发光兰花 by Seed Coleus Greenhouse is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 产品工程与技术设计 Competition Category.

铜工程· 2023

Starry Night 发光兰花

by Seed Coleus Greenhouse

Client: National Cheng Kung University

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 工程 Category

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The Design

About Starry Night 发光兰花

《星夜》是一款通过生物技术工艺培育而成的发光兰花。符合欧盟标准的高熵氧化物经由叶脉吸收后,兰花便可在黑暗中发光,整个过程不涉及任何基因改造。夜间无需任何额外光源,花瓣即呈现出经过设计的光影图案,宛若璀璨星空,并可呈现多种发光色彩。该植株宽250毫米、长250毫米、高500毫米,旨在为观赏者带来宁静而放松的视觉体验。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Starry Night 发光兰花是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Starry Night 发光兰花将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Starry Night 发光兰花出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Orchids represent abundance, harvest, fertility, beauty, prosperity, and luxury. White orchids symbolize innocence and purity, as well as elegance and reverence.
This biotechnology enables orchids to glow in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides that are absorbed using non-genetically modified leaf veins. This technology further enables people to communicate with the glowing orchids in the senses and to feel the beauty and mystery of the glowing orchids in spirits as looking up at the starry night.
Dimensions & Packaging: natural glowing orchids size dimensions, Width 250 mm x length 250 mm x Height 500 mm for physical products.
Tags: glowing orchid, orchid, glowing plant, starry night, starry orchid, Avatar plant
Production Technology: The novel biotechnology creates the world’s first natural glowing orchid in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides using non-genetically modified leaf veins, which make orchids glow in the designed pattern at night without other light sources in the presentation of a starry night on the petals.
Design Challenge: This is the novel biotechnology to create a really glowing flower. This biotechnology is a NOT genetically modified technology. This biotechnology enables orchids to glow in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides that are absorbed using non-genetically modified leaf veins, which make orchids glow in the designed pattern at night without other light sources.
Research: Orchids are of various species, colors, and shapes. Orchids are found in almost all ecological environments on earth, except for the cold polar regions or deserts. Its unique flower shape leads to high ornamental value.
This biotechnology enables orchids to glow in the dark through EU-compliant high-entropy oxides that are absorbed using non-genetically modified leaf veins. This technology further enables people to communicate with the starry night on glowing orchids in the senses and to feel the beauty and mystery of the glowing orchids in spirits as the starry night.
Inspiration: There is no need to enter the planet Pandora in a virtual movie. Seeing glowing orchids displaying multi-colored luminescence in a dark night as a starry night, one can feel positive emotions in life such as peace, comfort, relaxation, happiness, and fulfillment.
When looking at the starry sky among the orchids and counting the twinkling stars, there are countless brilliant dreams in the tiny stars. In the end, the stars are like eternal memories that connect the whole galaxy.
Project Duration: The glowing orchids are shown in the 2023 Taiwan International Orchid Show on March 4-19 2023 in Tainan, cooperating with the Taiwan Orchid Growers Association and Council of Agriculture (Taiwan).
Operation Flow: This technology enables orchids to glow in the darkness by utilizing the leaf vein absorption of high-entropy oxides, which are in line with EU standards. Glowing orchid displays a starry night at night. Starry glowing orchids make people calm, comfortable, and relaxed, and moreover improve one's mood, such as a sense of accomplishment to reveal a unique experience, referring to a starry night.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Yen-Hsun Su, 2023.
Team Members: Professor Dr. Yen-Hsun Su
Fei Pan
Ya-Hui Chang
Chia-Wei Chang
Li-Lin Huang
Wei-Sheng Chen
Flower Ku
Shu-Mei Wang
Chen-Piao Yen
Jyh-Ming Ting
Wei-Chien Ma
Sheng-Lung Tu
Image Credits: Image #1, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023.
Image #2, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023.
Image #3, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023.
Image #4, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023.
Image #5, Photographer Li-Lin Huang, Monkey Lin Studio, 2023.