Dynamic relationship with body and surface

The discussion is about relationship between the body and the environment. The edges of the dynamic motion form a visual surface (or skin). The body not only creates a new space but also the dynamic space in-between the skin and the environment by the movement of body motion. The project focuses on this interface to discuss the relationship of body and architectural space, which changes by the altering body and the time. This dynamic interface reflects the relationship of a moving object and the space where the object passed by. The circulation, like corridor, links up two spaces as passage for people to go through. Body can build different relationship with architectural space at different times. I define the space between the boundary of body and walls “unoccupied space". The aim is to study the space.
The body movements was recorded when it moved through the stairway for the analysis of its details in each time frame and reconstructed the data in 3D space to decipher the boundary of body.

Time – The surface (skin) changes by using the sensor to detect the distance of the object and the wall. The space (gap) in between the surface and the wall represents the relationship of body and environment. It means the next person who goes through the stair will know the surface of former people. However, the surface will flatten to the initial status as if a wallpaper after a longer period of time.
The same system could be applied to the relationship between two people. The skin will reflect the first pattern left by the first person and it would affect the action of the other person. Therefore, the first man can change the second person.

The experiment The altering relationship, the altering space
The sensor / the time line / dynamic wall
The idea comes from the concept of Pin Art to form the shape of object. However, the system is a dynamic method to reflect the movements. The ‘control joints’ of the geometry space are every joint of a body, which was tested and defined last term. The surface system is controlled by the sensor attached to hydraulic transmission tool. The sensors are attached on the joint of altering body. The sensor detects the distance of body and physical space. The skin reflects the changing body which passes by. The body movement reforms a new shape in the environment as it creates a dynamic and ever-changing relation to the space. On the other hand, it is like sponges as a rehabilitated system to reflect the relationship of the changes in the space created by two moving bodies which reform a new shape in the limited time.

Two different body scales (woman and man) walk through the stair.
Different body motions in the environment affect each other. The former body will be the element to affect the second body motion in the limited timeline (the temporary barrier). Two bodies who walk in different speed will affect each other.


Possible site:
The traditional British House / Public space
Bodies in different scales and motions move within the circulation and the space. The system applies to the basic architectural elements such as walls and ceilings in a public space. Use the dynamic skin system to establish a change to the space which will create a new spatial type.