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ResoNet awakens from a dormant sleep to echo the vibrant old Hutong community in Beijing. Emerging from its origins in the forests of Cumbria, relocated in the Pet-Market of Baitashi it morphs to reform the streetscape of Hutong in the urban environment. This installation is taking place in Beijing Design Week, which will be running until October 7, 2015.   

The suspended web structure drapes over a void like a vortex cross over the streetscape. A series of vibration sensors & LED modules are fixed at key intersections on the tensile network, to detect minute vibrations as a result of human and natural activity. Be it a brush of a hand, or a passing breeze, the energy is converted into light that resonates across the structure, immersing the public in an efflorescent visual of flashing lights.  

ResoNet explores the boundaries between nature, art, architecture, and technology; to create emergent physical & ephemeral conditions. The project has won 1st prize in 2007 Bright LED international competition co-organized by Designboom and Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea. Other exhibited venues include FRED07 (UK), LFA Greening Bays (UK) and Luminale 2010 (Frankfurt). We would like to explore further avenues with greater collaboration to develop the next sustainable evolutions of ResoNet.

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Project Facts

Organizer: Creative Prototyping Unit 
Designers: Mark Francis Tynan, William Hailiang Chen, Liqun Zhao
Date: 9.26-10.7 Private View on 9.25 evening
Address: North Fuchengmen Inner Street, Xicheng District

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