Prize(s) Winners in Outdoor Light Art Installation
Lighting Design/Product Company Nature Retrieve Interior Design Co., Ltd.
Lead Designers Yun Chih Yu
Client the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Tainan city government
Photo Credits Huang Sheng-Min / Jacky Cheng / Chang Jyum Ci / Niu Yun-Ju
Completion Date February 3rd, 2024
Project Location Lin Mo Niang Park, Tainan, Taiwan
Entry Description"Nature Being"— seeing nature itself, not seeing the existence of works.
It's about merging nature with the Way, embodying the philosophy of non-action by Lao Tzu. Non-action allows all things to develop harmoniously. In a space of over 700 meters, it expresses a spiritual state of "preserving" rather than "removing", symbolizing an emphasis on the spirit of ecology in its purest form.
The overall lighting design of the work takes bamboo as the carrier, and the light bar is placed in the half-cut and hollowed-out bamboo, and the position and angle of lighting are designed according to the appearance of various trees in the site, so that the linear lighting placed at different heights can reflect the outline and shape of trees. This design aims to let the trees become the main source of lighting, without the need for artificial lamps, and the colorful halo reflected on the sidewalk by the back of leaves after illumination can set off a leisurely walking atmosphere.
The flickering effect of the lighting design also echoes with the local activities, such as the flashing signal lights at the exit of the sea, the lights at the port, and the searchlights at the late-night fishing market. When people look back from the other side, they could see a massive yet light bamboo structure emitting warm lights. It becomes a poetic manuscript-like silhouette visible from afar at night.
Sustainability Approach"Complete Recycling and Reuse of Art Installation Materials"
To respond to the ecological context, the design extracts elements from bamboo oyster sheds constructed by oyster farmers at sea. We kept the bamboo in its original state. After the installation was unloaded, thousands of bamboo was recycled by fishermen for reuse, which not only returned to the local fishery environment but also greatly reduced the environmental cost of secondary transportation.
In addition, we respond to the local cultural context through installation modeling, and set up the three-dimensional space of ancient city wall image with this long-scale framework, and echo the ridge lines of traditional temples in Tainan with the special triangular space of curved vertical surface. Ultimately, the lighting equipment used in the installation was recycled and utilized in the spaces of local temple cultural groups.
