Digital Flower | DigitalFUTURE Shanghai Workshop, Tongji University

A Series of “Digital Garden” Projects are Exhibited at MoCA

MoCA Mock-up Exhibition Opening was hold at MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai) in Aug. 3rd, 2012. The exhibition is curate by LIU Yuyang, FENG Lu and WANG Weiwei. Atelier Archmixing, Atelier Deshaus, FENG Guochuan, FENG Lu, Atelier GOM, KUU, YU Ting, Philip F. Yuan+Neil LEACH, ZHANG Bin+ZHOU Wei and Vector Architects were invited to transform MoCA into 10 different theme spaces: Workroom, Bathroom, Garden, Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room, Study Room, Bedroom, Kid’s Room and Guest Room.

Philip F. Yuan, the leader of DigitalFUTURE Workshop 2012, finished a series of “Digital Garden” projects with the help of workshop’s instructors and students. The series of “Digital Garden” projects are composed of four projects: “Digital Flower” is a landscape installation at the entrance of MoCA’s front square, it combines mathematical complexity with functionality of form, multi-dimensional space and abstract nature, it shows the designer understands for the garden of the future; “Mechanical Garden” is an interactive wall made by steel flowers at the gate of MoCA, it simulates a real garden with the use of Arduino technology; “Terrace Canopy” is a hanging net, which weaves a new relation between the city and the garden; “Terrace Landscape” is a landscape installation among the chairs on the terrace. The flowing membrane, in close relation with the hanging net, gives a new character to the terrace. Walking through the garden, people will be immersed in this multi-dimensional experience which takes them beyond the traditional understanding of beauty.