Discovering Technology Treasures: Time Keeper of the “Fabric Garden” - Go Deeper

Fabric Garden’s green wall at Warehouse No.1, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park

Following up the “Discovering Technology Treasures: Time Keeper of the ‘Fabric Garden’ - First Look”, after the trial planting and production of the robot’s face, at the end of February 2014, we started the exhibition of “Discovering Technology Treasures”. We had about two weeks to do the installation. The wooden structure of the green wall in the exhibition hall took about one week to produce, and “Fabric Garden”’s fabrics and vegetation came to the hall the second week. We also installed the automatic irrigation system and water-proofing mechanism.

Wrapping and seaming

Beginning to plant

Planting according to designed pattern

Divided planting

After about one week, we started to test the lighting and theatrical effects. Following is the actual situation after the installation:

Front of the Time Keeper

Front of the Time Keeper

Normally, the robot’s face is hidden in the wall and hard to detect. During the show, it can show facial expression and open its eyes and mouth to reveal the original set screens to create a performance full of lighting and sound effects.

Robot’s face appears on the wall

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Discovering Technology Treasures: Time Keeper of the “Fabric Garden” - First Look

“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. 

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.

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.

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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