The day life of bridal dress in a poor Wedding day

1. Dressing

2. Magic dresses 3. Open the door

4. The environmental reaction

5. Covering bike

6. Blocking Tube Gate

7. Extended boundary

8. Soft air system through tube stair

9. Get on tube

10. Sit on the tube

11. The platform

12. Up stair

13. Drift

14. Cross the road

15. Pulling the gate

16. Walk on the street to church

17. Slow walk in wedding party

18. Runnig bride

19. Safty lift

20. Tree

21. Disturbing dust

22. Two ppl dance

23. Dancing alone

24. The tension landscape

Digital Chimeric Agitators - The performance of myth -‘Dracula’ in Whitby

As the title of Digital Chimeric Agitators, I am creating 24 events for Dracula in the legendary town, Whitby. The vampire of 24 events appears in the different corners of Whitby to establish a story of Dracula. It’s a performance to redraw Dracula, which is tracing the blood from churchyard (grave) to church. The scenes can be constructed based on the story which is from one of chapters of Bram Stoker's book. Also the idea of drawing will combine my imagination with his motion to connect with the environment issue and show the different agile of vampire moving in daytime or dark time.

Below are two events I accomplished so far.

The Amazing Cape

Chapter One: walk out form graveyard
The Dracula wakes up from the graveyard and walks out to find his food – blood trace. The light trace shows the movement of Dracula. Those light covering a new spatial in the churchyard.

Chapter two: seeking bloods and moving through the landscape
The vampire usually wears the red overcoat. His red dress will pull and drag the landscape with his motion. This fabric will not only show the motion of Dracula but also reform the landscape. (The fabric dress could be a new skin of vampire to change landscape such as his overcoat (red and black) and dress is as a part of landscape)

Chapter three: pulling the water to land and seeking the blood in water

The skin, which was developed from the geometry of body motion, acts as the interface of reforming environment to pull and drag the landscape and the background of space. Considering the skin, which was produced from the motion, is a layer similar to clothes for the environment. The body motion includes the space and the performance. The typology of fashion design defines the relation of body with clothes, and it also links to body motion. Typology – The fashion fabric can be an interface to reflect the elements of the environment, and it could also transform the motion to environmental elements to represent the ‘agile’ of body and environment. (Soft fabric or hard fabric such as chainmail and the suit of armour) The projects of Chalayan Hussein present the territory of body with fashion fabric. The soft fabric dress as the interface of body and space is attached to show the body motion, and represent the distance of body to environment. The fabric covers and interacts with the landscape (new skin). It is the interface of agile in-between body and space to reflect and reform the environment and the landscape. It is the tool to reform the space and to disturb landscape. The pulling and the dragging the distance in-between body and environment recover a new surface for the space itself.
24 drawing is used showed how different agile of vampires in the daytime and the night time disturb the landscape and background in order to create a relationship with new surface and space. Represent the agile and motion of vampire shifting in the space.

The different vision of world

Soft infrastructure (borrowed from Madrid Metro) from cityofsound on Vimeo.

The 'Red' Performance

The cell
When I start to image the scenario and the relationship of the body surface and context , I link to some scenes of this movie which the motions powerfully change the space by fabric.

OK Go
This MV showed the body play with the different relationship of dance and spatial equipment and then created a interesting performance.

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.

In between the body and physical world

The changing relationship

The dynamic space in-between the body and environment

The Prototype of System
The automatic surface reflect the motion of space, and also reflects the time element of movement.

Geometry of body

Build infrastructure

Prototype for infrastructure
The infrastructure of house is to provide the basic support such as the structure, the circulation system (stair, lift), supply system (water, electricity pipe), some visible and invisible supply system and so on. According to the book “how building learning”, flow and time and after-occupy are changing the building and infrastructure of building will be changed as well.

The altering body walking through corridor is changing movement because it is affected by the time frame and the objects occupied the space. Corridor supports and links spaces. Using the reference of altering body builds the structural prototype of dynamic objects. This prototype is hopefully to create a model to reflect the time and environmental changing element by the dynamic transforming process. A case study based on a similar concept, which is Sendai Media Centre, built by Toyo Ito, conducts the concept of transforming the swaying seaweed to the structure system.

So, I use my house which is one of the row house in London to test the initial prototype on circulation system. However, the house is quite simple in comparison to hospitals or museums which have more complicated and dynamic forms. I will choose a specific site for setting up infrastructure, and keep developing the prototype as my next step of this project.

Also, there are still other issues. The infrastructure can reflect the outside environment on the model like the discussion in the workshop at Plymouth which used some way to show the data of building in the ‘structure’.

Frame work and skin

The First Draft of Report

Introduction
Human body has been used as the basic architectural elements to create space. In the past, Da Vinci and Le Corbusier presented the relationship between the static body and space on proportion scales. ‘Users will mark the architecture with their actions during occupation, leaving traces that suggest how it should be inhabited.’1 Le Corbusier explained Le Modulo as ’a man who upraises his arm presents the space which he occupied’. The development of the model was based on the proportion of human body as the basic calibration for design. 2
However, the shape of body can change and alter because of the effects of factors in the surroundings. The traces of body also reflect how body relates to the environment and create a new space with body movement.3 Furthermore, the altering body creates a continuous rhythm and dynamic motion as it agitates or disturbs the elements in the space and reforms the dynamic motion.
The aim of this project is to interpret the relations between the body motion and the space by represent the idea of ‘agile’ within the environment. The first part of this project focuses on recording, analysing and creating the boundary of a field where the observed body exists. Body motions are recorded to find out the relationship between body and environment and the field of body. Moreover, the experiment also explains how a body generates turbulence in the air of a field and agitates the pollutants that have settled on surfaces.
It is undoubtedly that body motion reflects the environment and altering body defines a new space. Greg Lynn, author of Animate Form, who was inspired by E.Muybridge and E.J Marey, discussed the methods of capturing and analysing the fluid status of body motions to create new spatial forms. The body motion system would help to construct the tactic and frame of architecture. Therefore, the altering body not only creates the new space in the environment but also is one of the tools to calibrate the four dimensional space of body. The analysis and calibration progress will create a new body space. Moreover, it uses prosthetics to adjust the body movement.
The outcome would be expected to construct a new spatial type and to build a prosthetics which are the extended devices form the observed body in order to adjust the relationship of body and environment and be a tool of reforming body space.

Theoretical and aesthetic methodology
Idea of capturing fluid space
In pursuit of discovering the space from a dynamic movement and developing a scheme in a three dimensional space, the techniques for capturing the fluid status of body motion and scanning the environmental factors are fundamental.
Several methods are applied to record the dynamic fluid movement, which flows with the space over time. These methods are essential to obtain the data of body motions. The recorded data of the physical space are transformed into a method of creating/designing space.2
Moreover, from the research of Muybridge, the dynamic body is in the fluid states with the changing time. With the upgrading of technology, the changes of body can be recorded precisely. It can assist with the recording and analysis of body motions. Furthermore, the observer draws the field of body by the recorded of motion, like the scanning of the body.
Also, the theory, Herztian space3, explains how body motions and environmental pollutions form an invisible space in physical space. Body motion is like ‘the Hertzian space’ which can leave the form and traces as a new surface during every motion.
Moreover, one of the methods was inspired from the picture, in which a dancer leaves her motion traces and creates a new spatial dialogue with the original field. Another method was learned from the idea of motion capture by studying Muybridge and Marey’s photographic and the ‘Instructable’ website.4

The methodology – Light trace + 3D scanner
Light trace
Marey’s photographic work showed the record of dynamic figures by using the tiny reflecting optical disks with rhythms and motion.5 The methods were meant to pursuit the technique for capturing the ever-changing body. My ambition is to use the skill of motion capturing and photographic to develop and draw the animation of a four dimensional space. The body would be able to draw a new surface in the present space and the trace could construct the basic calibrate to measure the space.
If the ‘Hertzian Space’ is transformed to be visible by using scanner, it would help us to record the boundary of dynamic field of body. The methodology is inspired from using the idea of scanning ‘Hertzian space’ 1 to record body field to environment and spatial issue. (Figure xx light test) Therefore, light bulbs, as the electromagnetic radiation, are used to leave the trace of altering body motion. Light bulbs are the medium to be scanned in order to record the boundary of body motion. Photography is used as a scanner to record the changing body and to scan the electromagnetic radiation from the body.
To explain in detail, light bulbs are set on every main joints of the body. The purpose is to eliminate the body profile in the picture and only record the movement of joints in order to read the relationship of altering body and the environment. (Figure xx body light bulb)The experiments show that the light bulbs also draw out the motion in the space. Furthermore, the speed of motion represents the ‘time’ in the space. The exposure time of each frame is set at the same length. The different motions show the different speeds of ‘agile’ in the environment.
3D scanner
Mist, one of the environmental pollutants, is released from body and has settled in the existing space. Human body generates and disturbs this particle in the environment. Body releases pollutants through breath, body heat and vibrates the particle on the body. The altering body could generate mist and form the body-landscape. For example, the Blur (Diller+Scofidio, 2002) 2 releases the mist and reforms the original space and blurs the original boundary of building.
On the other hand, the 3D scanning method scans and records the environmental factors (pollutions and dust). The movement of body can disturbs the mist in the environment. The mist not only leaves the moisture in the space but also releases the smoke to reform the object. The experimental object would be placed on the body which releases mist (smoke) to form a space as the results are being recorded. The 3D scanner also scans the shifting motion figure with the ‘time’ element and is expected to read pollutants surrounded the body in the space. The study supports the understanding of how the altering body and drifting pollutions creates space. Next step is to attach an object which generates the pollutant (mist) on the altering body and record the misty landscape which releases from body with 3D scanner.
Generate Geometry
Although Marey was certainly not interested in higher spatial dimensions, Duchamp engaged with the four dimensional presenting which time and motion are played by. As Duchamp generated higher dimensional form by tracing body motions that were left in space in ‘Nude Descending’, it measured time in a static image of movement.1 Inspired from the idea of Theo Jansen’s shifting work, a four dimensional geometry based on the traces of body will be constructed. It would be a prototype of frame to generate space and a new prosthetics for the body in 3D space. It would also be built in 3D software.
Project tactics
As the ‘Automarionette’ used body to reflect and develop the system of architecture, the strategy of this project is to attach light bulbs on the body in order to record the motion, and track the body field.1 It would calibrate the basic layout of four dimensional body spaces and then create the dynamic geometry by analysing and transforming. The trace of body acts as a ruler of Duchamp to measure the time-based space. It would be a prototype of prosthetics and a frame of spatial geometry of body. The prosthetics are a machine to adjust the curve which is traced by the light bulbs of body as an ideal shape of movement.2

Initial body study work
Agile environment and Prosthetics
The studies of term one focuses on the research of agile ‘environment’ and ‘body’. In order to represent the 'boundary', 'speed', and 'agile' of the environments, the density of lines and the distribution of action symbolise 'the different level of terrain' in three environments (swamp, forest and cliff) which are seen as a continuous landscape. (Figure1) In addition, the bending lines which are continuous and dynamic show the 'agile' movement of body in the environment. The project applies photography which collects and analyses data from the human actions to figure out the relations of the body and the environment because of the inspiration of Eadweard Muybridge and E.J. Marey.4 (Figure2) The series of study in body motion can help to comprehend how body alters in these environments and construct the basic time frame on drawing.
In addition, legs are the key points of human body’s motion and knees are the ‘hinge’ of legs. An additional object is defined as the extra prosthesis that is attached to human body and it is the most important basis to interpret the boundary of body and how it alters in different environments. In the swamp, it resists the buoyancy of water and transforms with amphibious from swamp to the forest. In the forest, it swings between trees and shuttles through to the next tree. On the cliff, it finds out the location where it can anchor and climb to the top to resist the gravity by the depth of the anchor point. By the interpretation of the attached object, the places where the body passes by emerge new relations to space and new surface. (FigureX)
Also, the object records the traces of the shifting body to nomad within three environments. It might be like a sewing machine on the body to weave the surface of body in the environments.1 The trails of nomadic move reflect the environmental status and the object reflects the status of fluid body to adapt space. Therefore, the object of the body is used to travel in different environments and record the regional data where the object passes. The datum of motion provides the basic information for the next move in a new field.

Sites with environmental illness
The project sets up for three body sites, patient / horse rider / model that have sensitive for the environments which are hospital / wild field / catwalk corridor. The choices are applied in the purpose of producing the unseen interface in present environments. The sites are chosen based on the body training system to adapt their movement to environment. Also, technology is used to support and record the motion, and reform the space. However, I will focus on the one site to find out the system of project.
Patient (in corridor) - the patients with environmental illness
Breakspear Hospital: Produce a foggy corridor for environmental illness patients to rehabilitate. The transforming of humidity can help doctors to understand the degree of recovery of patients. There are some different rehabilitation courses for different patients’ symptoms.
a. Basic training of original skeleton- the patient cannot squat
b. Training legs as grasshopper – the patient cannot jump continuously
c. Extending body as the Chimera – the patient’s feet and hands cannot coordinate to climb

The first scenario is constructed at a hospital corridor. The corridor is a passage connecting each room. At Breakspear hospital, electronic physical therapy is used to cure the environmental illness patient. Scanning how patients walk through the corridor is similar to the procedure of curing, in which human body is affected by the events in the corridor and creates new fields. Bodies show different agitating states in the corridor. Different agitating bodies moves along the corridor again and again. The space eventually becomes more agile from the trace of light. As the drawings, Skelton / Grasshopper / Chimera, are generating the initial geometry in order to develop in 3D space.

Project Further work
Another strategy is to choose one site and focus on the bodies that go through the corridor in the hospital (maybe it could be in a different environment). Discussion will stress the character of corridor in the building. For example, the corridor which is between two patients’ rooms shows different spatial characters with the corridor which is between the doctor room and the operation room. Therefore, the different events would affect the motion of body and construct the different geometry because of different character corridor. This is aim to create new infrastructure in the space. Possibly, the system will be able to be applied to another environment for constructing the new relationship of body and the corridor and the relationship of corridor and ‘the building’.

Reform

Tracking and tracing
Studying from the Indigestion and the Dissident Housework Series – the events is changing. It regenerates the stuff and the field, and changes the relationship and essence of object by dynamic events.

Pollutant
The fog not only leaves the moisture in the space but also releases the smoke to reform the object. For example, the Blur (Diller+Scofidio, 2002) releases the fog. It reforms the original space and blurs the boundary of building. In addition, the human body generates and disturb this particle in the environment. Body releases pollutants through breath, body heat and vibrating the particle on the body (e.g. dandruff). I am thinking the altering body probably can generate the smoke and form the body-landscape. Next step, using the 3D scanner records the smoke landscape which releases from body, and producing the object which generates the pollutant attaches on the altering body.

Archos Workshop: Plymouth + Bartlett + AHO

The sensors which are set in the building collect the environmental effective elements data of each area’s in the building (temperature, humid, wind direction …and so on). My group used every fragment of the database and insert into 3D max to form a form. It hoped to reflect the element to environment in moment in everyday which based on different position, large, forms or colour. For example, we selected everyday’s data of wind direction (Monday to Sunday) at the same time of everyday. Then we can get the form of everyday (7 forms a week) and insert in the 3D software to connect with everyone. We believe the transforms reflect the environmental data in architectural form in the cube (building) and this idea seems can relate to my project.
The final presented of workshop showed a data-sensor system to reflect in the architectural circulation system. For example, the humid sensor will start blow the bloom in the building hall then block the entrance when it is rain and humility is raised.(humid data reflect to the large of form). Therefore, the students have to change their circulation to enter the building or black the elevator then students have to jump on the cushion to down stair. It maybe little bit fancy. The purpose is that generating new form from environmental data to relate with the original space (environment).
In my project, I think the light bulbs are the similar technical sensor to record the data of form in the environment. The drawings in the crit tried to analyse every movement. Light traces like the tracks of transform in the space and it regenerate the forms of each movement. The similar system is a new field (building or corridor) which is a time-based altering to dialogues in present space.

my sketch during the workshop

the collage of cushion system

Term2 crit + further testing situation works

In the crit, there are some questions about relation of the body and space (environment). Therefore, I did an experiment to test how the environmental (field) conditions affect the altering body. The action is to open the window and the field conditions are changed (I set up different situation in the space). The body was changing with different time by different condition and the speed is also different.

Agitation Drawing

The agitating body at different states the section throught CORRIDOR at breakspear hospital