This is a phenomenom device that utilizes the principle of sound generated by collisions and incorporates the concept of recycling. By allowing the natural wind to blow and move the aluminum cans, they continuously collide with each other, creating sound. It provides a space where office workers, travelers, and families can relax and unwind during their leisure time.
I hope that by enhancing the sound of the venue, people will be able to clearly hear the changes in the weather.
Let people feel the breeze on a sunny day and enjoy the beauty of the moment, and feel the hurricane on a rainy day and get a warning of danger.
At the same time, it provides a place for people to stop and rest.
SITE ANALYSIS
When the weather is nice, it’s perfect for a leisurely picnic, sunbathing, reading, playing Frisbee, and just relaxing. Kids love rolling around on the hill or going on the nearby carousel. If I transform the wind’s path into a crisp sound, people will be more aware of the breeze passing by.
But it also experiences severe weather. For example, Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 put Hudson River Park’s sustainable design to the test. At the height of the storm, much of the park was flooded with up to 5 feet of seawater. Pedestrian safety would be threatened.
WIND ANALYSIS
Winds are mainly northwest in spring, fall and winter, and southwest in summer.
The risk of hurricanes is highest between August and October, peaking in mid-September. At the height of the hurricane, 60% of the park was flooded with up to 5 feet of water.
PRECEDENT
NAME: WAVE OF CAN
A soda fountain public art interactive installation made of 400 cans, designed and produced by Stanford University’s mechanical power design team.
BRAIN STORMING
EXPERIMENT ANALYSIS
Sound is a kind of wave. When playing a musical instrument, slapping a door or knocking on a table, the vibration of the sound will cause the medium – air molecules to vibrate rhythmically, causing the surrounding air to change in density, forming a sparse and dense longitudinal wave, which will produce sound waves. This phenomenon will continue until the vibration disappears. Sound can always be decomposed into a superposition of sine waves of different frequencies and intensities.
I hope that this design will also give the meaning of environmental protection propaganda. I studied two materials, plastic bottles and cans, and analyzed their sound characteristics through the recording of sound waves. Finally, because the sound of the coke can is sharper and the material characteristics are more likely to produce pleasant sounds, the can was chosen as the final sound-generating material.
PHENOMENON DEVICE
This design is layered of four layers: first layer is a top, second layer is the coke can and neylon strings, third layer is the coloumn, the last layer is the ground. Four layer connected together as a phenomenum device. The shape is inspired by the shape of coke can. When the wind hits on the coke can, each of them will swing and hit by each other and make sound. Also, the device is a warner for bad weather coming. When the weather is good, wind is slow and gentle, hitting on for listeners to listen and enjoy, but when the bad weather is coming, wind will be madly blowing and swinging those cans, so that it can notify people to leave as soon as possible.
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