OPENLIGHT

Our team (Marco, Meerthe, Lilly, Jeroen, Vincent and Vivian) started the Module's first day be exploring the building and especially its environment as part of the GLOW route.

The central theme of our ideas was to use the lighting installation to bring life to the main building.

Exploring the environment and entrance path to the TU/e installations, we were intrigued by a narrative that builds upon the collosal buildings that inhabit the TU campus. The campus is a comfortable home to some and an unknown territory to many others. Our direction aims to bring the Main Building, the biggest of the giants that have moved here since the 60's, and make it come alive.

We want it to react to the visitors that enter its domain by giving it a sense of emotion and a morphing physicality to express this. Our idea is to project a grid of triangular shapes onto the main building. This grid is strongly related to the buiding's more modernist character, while allowing it to change shape through e.g. ripples across its surface or by becoming pointy and moving aggresively. The image below shows a sketch of the projection in spatial terms.