Constructed Invisibles: Designing Instruments as and for Effects

Gabriele d’ Annunzio described the “richest events occur in us long before the soul perceives them”, and “when we begin to open our eyes to the visible, we have long since committed ourselves to the invisible”. While unmediated human eye perceives the built environment from the visible forms, this paper discusses instruments and instrumentality through the development of a research project “ConstructedInvisibles”, which intends to build towards a volumetric perception of the environment with the awareness of the“void” in between. This project experiments ways of perceptually measuring the interaction between human behavior and unperceivable air movements; and explores in depth methods and techniques of designing with this invisible medium. Through tracking precedents in creating forms with airflow from principles of natural physics, this project seeks precision in articulating the invisible forms and patterns interactively following the geometric language. Points, lines, curves, surfaces, volumes and textures are generated through temperature and motion as agent.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.55

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9