“Discovering Technology Treasures” takes place in the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, showing results of creativity in various fields. The project: Time Keeper uses two technologies: one is the directivity loudspeakers stimulating outdoor sound effects, and the other one is an indoor 6-meter-high green wall, a fabric garden with a robot’s face on it. Combining both technologies creates a lively indoor jungle an indoor magic playground with all kinds of advanced technology presenting a wonderful show with light and sound. The exhibition takes place from Feb. 22 to March 16, at Warehouse No.1 of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park ( Next to Songyan Eslite book store). The exhibition is free.
We started from scratch. The process of creating the robot’s face with green plants was started last year. The steel structure allowed the installation of servo-motors which allowed for movable facial features and cheeks.
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| Structure of disassembled robot’s face |
The control equipment and system of the robot’s face was made by Luxury Logico and the plants are taken care of by the Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI). During the test phase, we also did the Fabric Garden wrapping and a trial planting.
As a smiling person’s face, full of vitality, is made of curved surfaces, we had to use soft material to do the wrapping. The vegetation fabric of the Fabric Garden is soft and can be used in different environmental conditions and made into various forms. These plants are of different sizes so that designers can cut out any particular plant right on the spot according to their ideas.
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| The picture of Fabric Garden wrapping the robot’s jaw and upper lip |
This time, Fabric Garden produces according to specific standards and applies the Taiwan Textile Research Institute’s digital printing technology to print camouflage color patterns.
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| Fabric Garden’s trial planting situation |
The TTRI works with Treegarden landscape designers to choose various kinds of plants and certain types of hanging plants to embellish the steel structure. As for eyebrow parts, we make some very prominent ones to show the robot’s momentum and facial features. The result is quite amazing and unexpectedly appealing.
Fabric Garden’s robot’s face trial planting acceptance
( To be continued ...)
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