Tuesday, 30 March 2010


Taking into account the territoriality aspect of the research material, this idea works by trying to keep someone from approaching the building.
Their distance could be measured using Ultrasounds transducers, like the ones used in car parking sensors. This information would be relayed to the necessary components and cause floodlights to eliminate the building. The closer you get to the building the brighter the lights.

I want my final outcome to. . .

  • Use light as a tool.
  • Interact with the movements of an intruder.
  • Cause the actions of someone to change.

Fact

The information gained from the police has proved that the majority of crimes against commercial businesses takes place at night.

These crimes peak in the winter months when the dark evenings set in.

Territory

Territory :
"An area that something considers as its own and that it defends against intruders"
EL Lighting is an innovative light source which comes in strips, sheets or wires.
It could be a possible solution for the light source used to illuminate the territorial features found from my research.

Monday, 29 March 2010


This idea creates lights which are representative of the type of space.

The more lights within the space the more public the space.
The closer you are the more solitary it becomes.

A meeting with the tutors has caused me to rethink the output for my project.

I am trying to integrate it with elements from my research, mainly the territoriality aspect, to try and make a product which will have an effect on a person within an environment by reinstating this notion of territorial.
In this idea the territorial markers are eluminated in the dark. These could be eluminated all the time, or activated by trip sensors etc.