First tests on the roof, to make sure that the lights would be visible and that it was windy enough.  The average wind speed on the roof is 6mph and the turbines start lighting up at 4-5mph so the tests were a success.

The word’s out about “Wind To Light” and thinking about it, I hear it’s the press launch tonight! I hope it stays windy.

Interactive designer Andy Polaine has mentioned Wind To Light in his blog Playpen. He’s a London expat, now living in Offenburg, Germany. Andy says it reminds him, “…of White Noise/White Light installation by MIT’s J. Meejin Yoon a few years back”.

6MPH Northerly, see BBC Weather

Visual of the LED Turbines on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall looking like a cloud of fireflys.

City and World like bikes but they also like films, men wearing bowler hats and it seems windy lighting, amazing.

The workshop is not naturally windy so for the purposes of this experiment we used artificial wind.

Weeks in Workshop

It’s been a long time but things are finally ready.  Thumbs were hit and poles flexed, splinters splintered, screws screwed, wood came and went, many tears were shed.  Anyway.  It’s all ready now.

And I’m rather excited about it.

I have always been fascinated with the prospect of architecture powering itself and that our environment be a dynamic changing entity. Join these two thoughts and I wondered how to go about powering a buildings’ aesthetics at a large scale with micro devices - cue - ‘wind to light’ an idea that visualises wind movement across the built form with the use of mini turbines and LEDs.

Looking forward to seeing the results of the install yesterday.