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Table of
Contents
Introduction to Detail
Descriptive Geometry
Project Brief
Model
Lectures and Inspiration
Specifics
LED
Project Focus
Fibre Optic
White Light White Noise
Response/Reaction
Project Details
Conclusions
Analysis
Bibliography
Detailing
What?Why?Who?How?
Unique/Catalyst

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Introduction
Detail
Through the fibres of our
existence, from the very
beginning when humans were first
learning to structure sentences,
detail was essential. Back to
when man created the first
shelter he called home, detail
was vital. When that design
evolved and developed into master
plans and mammoth constructions,
detail is important down to the
elements that were smelted
together to create the metal for
1 screw.
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“Great design requires a
fluency in multiple scales.
Constant movement between a
diversity of scales makes
landscape architecture a
unique discipline - one
which often requires an
understanding from the
regional strategic scale to
the material scale of the
detail. This project will
focus on the detail scale o
the landscape project.”
-Brief Project: Detail
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Lectures and
Inspiration
To assist us whilst exploring the
design process, and detailing
techniques and communication, a
couple of speakers were brought
Ryan Frank - Product Design
in to trigger some influence.
Many thanks to everyone invloved
in bringing them in, and many Christopher Lueder - Reading Detail
thanks to all the speakers that
came. It was a great influence,
and a sort of nudge in the right
direction.

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Matthew Ridson + Mark Job (ARUP)
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Project Focus
White Light/White noise

A project that has been a

major inspiration of mine
due to its specific
detailing (since first
year) is ‘White light/White
Noise.’ It is light and
sound installation that
interacts with its users,
made especially for the
opening of the Athens
summer olympics 2004. (1 of
9 Temporary urban
installations). It was
shown again a year later at
MIT University. I feel this
installation has a unique
factor, in how it
reacts/responds to how it
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DETAILING
“To create something
exceptional, your mindset must
be relentlessly focused on the
smallest detail.”
- Giorgio Armani
What is Detail?
Details (noun)
1. an individual or minute part; and
item or particular
2. particulars collectively; minutiae
3. attention to or treatment of a
subject in individual or minute
parts: to postpone detail and
concentrate on a subject as a whole
4. intricate, finely wrought
decoration
5. any small section of a larger
structure or whole, considered as a
unit.
Random House dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2009
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Why do we need it, how is it
significant and what are the
catalysts?
Detail is essential as it is a guide
for our imagined design or
installation to be manifested into
reality. It is the blueprint of
everything that exists around us.
I feel this installation, is
specially significant because of its
unique catalyst factor that turns it
from a public space with light and
noise, into an all around interactive
installation.
Since there is light, movement,
sound, texture, surface, and
material, it can respond and react to
majority of people including the
blind and deaf. A feature that can
smartly interact with users requires
precise detailing.
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DETAILING
“To create something
exceptional, your mindset must
be relentlessly focused on the
smallest detail.”
- Giorgio Armani
What is Detail?
Details (noun)
1. an individual or minute part; and
item or particular
2. particulars collectively; minutiae
3. attention to or treatment of a
subject in individual or minute
parts: to postpone detail and
concentrate on a subject as a whole
4. intricate, finely wrought
decoration
5. any small section of a larger
structure or whole, considered as a
unit.
Random House dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2009
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Why do we need it, how is it
significant and what are the
catalysts?
Detail is essential as it is a guide
for our imagined design or
installation to be manifested into
reality. It is the blueprint of
everything that exists around us.
I feel this installation, is
specially significant because of its
unique catalyst factor that turns it
from a public space with light and
noise, into an all around interactive
installation.
Since there is light, movement,
sound, texture, surface, and
material, it can respond and react to
majority of people including the
blind and deaf. A feature that can
smartly interact with users requires
precise detailing.
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Communication

To properly understand use of land,

size difference, and relation, I put
together a small paper and card model
communicating the installation design
and how it interacts with users.

The model does not contain the

exact amount of fiber optic
light stalks as there are in the
real installation, but this is
only a smaller representation.
Scaled at 1:50

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Descriptive
Geometry
After thorough research, the skill,
also known as ‘Technical Drawing’ is
professionally known around the world
as descriptive geometry. This is
required in order to explore all
angles, areas, and perspectives of
the design to be implemented.
Descriptive geomtry explores
viewpoints, which brings in other
design intervention and
possibilities, for example, how the
light impacts it from one side,
compared to the other.
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These 4 foot tall light stalks are
arranged onto a 50x50’ platform, that
contains speakers underneath. The
fiber optic stalks each contain 3 LED
units, and a micro processor chip,
that senses touch and movement. When
there are users in the area, the
lights will glow at about 40%, and as
they are interacted with, touched,
and passed by, they begin to sway
left and right, increasing their
light to 100% and creating a
vibrating, white noise/white light
sound, that is also touch sensitive.
“Through the experience, visitors
interacted with the city-as both a
generators and manipulators of light,
sound, and space.”
-Architectural Lighting Magazine
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Communication

“The white noise made for the project is based on a

physical phenomenon called Johnson noise, where
noise arises from the thermal motions of electrons
in a resistor carrying current in an electronic
circuit. This field of white noise creates a unique
Geometrical drawings of White Noise/White
sound-scapein the city and masks out the noises from
light representing a plan view showing the immediate context, forming a place of sonic
spaces between light stalks, and decking refuge within the bustling city.”
platform. Architzer
Materials: Fiber Optic
Wood Decking
Micro Sensor Chip
Underdecking Speakers
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Communication
Light Stalks:
Fiber Optic Semi Flexible
White light ‘Fiber optic
INTEREROMETER”

3 peak wavelengthed LED

source

Michelson Interferometer
used as as strain sensor

400 Fiber optic stalks

Each stalk contains 3 LED
broadband light sources as
well as its own passive
infrared sensor and
microprocessor which uses a
software differentiation
algorithm to sense movement
or touch.

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Techniques - Passive infrared
microprocessor to
Detail sense movement and
touch.

Specifics
Michelson Intereformeter

Wood decking and

speaker system

Semi flexible white

light fiber optic
stalks.
LED Light Stalks

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Techniques - Detail Specifics
Order of Process

Silicone Bead

Stalk assembly

Galvanized steel nipple

Deck Module

Galvanized steel floor 1/2 pipe

Pan head wood screw size: 8 1/2

length
1.2 M
Nylon unthreaded round spacer
6mm OD, 6mm Length

Notches in mounting plate align

with deck

16 gauge steel mounting plate

Pan head wood screw size: 8 1/2

length

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Detail - Michelson
Standard experimental setup for
the Michelson Interferometer.
“The Michelson interferometer
produces interference fringes by
splitting a beam of
monochromatic light so that one
beam strikes a fixed mirror and
the other a movable mirror. When
the reflected beams are brought
back together, an interference
pattern results.” This is the
precise system used to interfere
with light, and since only 1 arm
of the Michelson system is used
to project and split light
beams, it is less complicated.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/PHYOPT/michel.html

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Detail - Process
The design and detail
process that was taken to
ensure all electronics and
plans were accurate to the
smallest detail. Order:
1. Microprocessor
programming
2. Duplicating
3. Site cleanup
4. Electric Tests
5. Assembly
6. Wood Decking and
speakers
7. Making the technical
link
8. Ready for installation
9. Decking duplicates.

For more info check:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
GMXdoxclbY&feature=channel

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Detail
"White noise, like white light, is an aggregation, composed of all possible
sounds, just as white light encompasses all possible colors, The gentle
murmur of 'White Noise/White Light' forms a place of sonic refuge within the
bustling city," she says, noting that the unique sound-scape masks out other
noises of the city.

"The city's sounds are recorded, remixed and curated into an interactive
landscape," she continues. "Overheard conversations are mixed in with readings
from Greek literature. The sound of traffic is juxtaposed with inaudible
frequencies in the city. ...Visitors and citizens can experience the city in a
new way, tracing its aural present and its recounted past."

J. Meejin Yoon
http://web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/prs/2004/0813_yoonolympics.html

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Bibliography
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Expanded Practice: Howeler and Yoon Architecture / My
studio pgs 156-158

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