Light Factory is an interactive exhibition project that explores the sensation of touching light with the human body.This project interprets and translates my personal memories of winter. It aims to stimulate and enhance one’s tactile senses through the interaction of one’s physical body, space, objects, and lighting.
Design Concept
The exhibition is divided into eight spaces, each representing how winter weather physically affects a specific part of the body. This impact is translated into interactions between light and certain parts of a visitor’s body.
The form, scale, and lighting of each exhibition room were designed according to the characteristics of the body parts required for interaction.
The form, scale, and lighting of each exhibition room were designed according to the characteristics of the body parts required for interaction.
Conceptual Sketches
︎Exhibition Spaces
Body Parts: Head
︎ Space 1: Blowing Wind
This space invites visitors to step into the cutouts of a horizontally suspended device, allowing their heads to interact with the lights. The design of LED tubes represents the appearance of a chaotic winter wind.
Body Parts: Face
︎Space 2: Clapping Wind
The hanging LED panels in this space swing from side to side, evocative of the sensation of the winter wind slapping against one's face.
Body Parts: Arms/Hands
︎Space 3: Shaping Snow
The LED mesh installation in this space allows visitors to activate and deactivate the bulbs in an intuitive manner. These illuminated spots represent snowflakes, and visitors can form and mold a snowscape by manipulating the arrangement of the luminous bulbs.
Body Parts: Back
︎Space 4: Petting of Sunlight
The warm yellow light in this horizontal, cone-shaped area emits a radiance reminiscent of the winter sun, continually petting the visitors’ backs.
Body Parts: Legs
︎Space 6: Sticky Rain
This room is composed of a labyrinth enclosed by hanging gauze curtains. Visitors can traverse narrow passages and experience tactile contact with the textile surfaces, reminiscent of the sensation of walking in wet pants on a rainy winter day.
Body Parts: Knees
︎ Space 7: Intimate Sunlight
This room creates an intimate connection between the human body and light. The low height of the floor encourages visitors to crawl on all fours, and the illumination spots enable them to interact with the lights using their knees.
︎Design Reference
