Overture is a reactive surface that responds to the presence of people through motion. The panels on the wall represent values through movement - they wave in and out in correlation to the amount of movement sensed. This breathing and pulsing geometric skin shows how much activity goes on in a space, performing a continuous waving pattern that goes on in a loop unless there is nothing being sensed.

 

This model is constructed by 15 panels that react independently but are all connected with elastic silicone joints, behind every panel there’s a motor that’s activated with an infrared sensor, this motor moves a lever that pushes and pulls the wood panel. The triangular wood pieces angle in and out becoming brighter and darker, which results into an organic transition from one panel to another, making the square arrangement less noticable.

 

The objective is that this wall would be produced in a larger scale and set up in a public environment allowing the users to perceive the amount of human traffic that passes through a public space without showing it with numbers but with a surface that reacts to it. When the wall is not displaying any information through its movements, it flattens leaving only the geometric wood pieces that sit still.