Splendour of Darkness
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The most crucial feature of this project was that light needed to be reflected and transmitted, creating various colors. While dichroic film serves this function, its thinness doesn't maintain shape well, so it was attached to transparent acrylic panels to compensate for this drawback. The acrylic panels with dichroic film not only change color depending on the viewing angle but also exhibit a variety of light colors depending on the angle of incidence.
This prototype consists primarily of two components: the structure and the panels. The structure has a 10-degree inclination rather than being perpendicular. This inclination ensures that when light is cast from above, the panels installed on the structure do not obstruct each other but receive the light and reflect it. Through experimentation with multiple prototypes, it was discovered that panels angled about 110 degrees towards the ceiling, reflecting the light installed above, offered the best performance.
Due to the precise nature of the inclined structure, any inaccuracies in cutting result in significant errors. Therefore, after drawing the structure and panel on CAD, laser cutting was employed. The structure was assembled by precisely fitting the cut pieces together, and panels of appropriate sizes were adhered to the assembled structure to complete it.