Project Team: April Liu + Hui Yuan
Site: Peabody Essex Museum – Salem, MA
Collaborators: Amy Youngs
Project Proposal
The concept of this project is to create a series of structures which look like walls from human’s perspective but are more like pathways to crickets. These structures are made out of chipboard spray-painted white and covered with black wire mesh, which are materials crickets prefer to climb on. There are patterns cut out on the chipboard in order to make it somehow transparent and let more light go through, which also cast shadows of the same pattern on the walls around. The series of structure create a circulation that allows crickets to travel back and forth between the first and second floor. The circular and wavy shapes are encouraging crickets to move around instead of hiding in the corner where people cannot see.
Study Model Experiment
Chipboard covered with fabric
Chipboard covered with silver wire mesh
Chipboard, increased corners
Chipboard covered with balck wire mesh, eliminated corners
Final Model
Perspective Collages
Window Perspective
Cricket Perspective
Web-cam Perspective