Stalactite animation

Draft write up

Cave formation begins when rainwater absorbs carbon dioxide as it falls through the atmosphere. Rain water must have carbon dioxide to become acidic. It must be acidic to chemically react to the limestone bedrock. Rainwater is absorbed by the soil into the ground.

The water reacts chemically with limestone and slowly a larger and larger space will form.
As the space becomes larger and larger the water can flow through. As it flows it erodes . Physical erosion washes away rock and sand. This is what makes a cave larger and forms an underground stream. Finally over hundreds of thousands of years or even millions of years the cave is formed.

My installation allows the viewer to experience what it would be like to form a cave, and for the cave to move and adjust around them, an experience which is not possible within the cave itself. The motion sensing technology detects the viewer and their movements around the space and will react to their movement. The viewer upon entry is informed that the cave will form around them because they are the chemical water which erodes limestone.

Floor plan

Floor plan flow

Light source 

Elderly Rest

Text on walls

Stalactites

Interactive wall

Feature wall and walls

Interactive floor

Interactive mirror

Digital perspective

Perspective drawings

Concept

Getting the concept that the viewer is the water eroding the cave, and how the person knows that they are.

Concept of the mirror, when they see them selves it transforms them so they look like they consist of water. This will give the idea that they are water and they will understand that they are eroding the cave.

Foam Board Model

40cm x 50cm

entrance - cave like but angles encourage the flow inwards.

also information can display on the angled wall.

Interactive outer wall 

to encourage viewers to come into my area i have introduced an interactive wall,

it remains closed when no one near but as soon as you walk past it will open up where you stand giving you a glimpse of what is inside.  

Inspired by image below.

looking at flow, the wall in the middle is also another interactive aspect. inspired by the picture below it will be digitally interactive and sense your body and invert your body into the pins. on the other side viewers can watch but can't interact.

example of wall opening up

entrance

these are stalactites but interactive when you walk under them they will rise up into ceiling and then when you walk away they will revert to original position. Also they will have lights on the ends "glow worms" but also this will be the source of light for the room.

what you would see when look up

this is the ceiling removed

 inside the room what the interactive wall will look like.

not interactive from inside.