Sanctuary
Project Overview
We created a spiritual sanctuary that blends primordial nature with unifying futuristic aesthetics to convey spiritual meaning to younger generations. The goal of this project is to unite the younger generation and create a tranquil environment that helps people's spirits.
Applications
Photoshop
Adobe Premiere
Touch Designer
MidJourney
Role
Prototyping
Interaction Design
Presentation Design
Industrial Design
Coding
Motion Graphic
Video Editing
Team
Mark Lim
Joshua Mosonyi
Meet the Team
Brainstorming Sensory Inputs
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Context
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Feel
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Material
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Sound
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Style
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Taste
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Smell
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Temperature
User Persona
User Journey
Sensory Inputs
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Motion Capturing Cameras (Holograms of Icons and Saints blessing people
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Small Contemplative Meditation room Visitors come in, walking expresses what they are struggling with (anxiety, fear, doubt etc.) The colors and sounds adjust to "solve" that emotional pain (through passages of scripture, chanting, positive affirmations, binarual beats etc.) They receive a recommended Synctuary room
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Synctuary Room A group of up to 24 puts on heart-rate variability sensors and sits facing the middle The sound and lights in the room correspond to their average heart rate, slowly allowing everyone to synchronize or harmonize
Space Details
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Botanical Interior Architectural Landscape
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Plotted on an open field
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Open lighting sequences that shine through the exterior opening the ceiling heighten the structure’s physical immediacy and evoke sensual delight
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Different Rooms
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1 main Sanctuary (Silky draped curtains)
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Space Diagram
Ideation
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Sun Room, Depressed + need vitality
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Womb Room, Content + ready for deep healing
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Water Room, Anxious + need soothing
Chapel Renderings
Place for group worship
Insights
Visualize the heartbeat, People are not often consciously aware of their heartbeats, let alone in a visual and spiritual way
Consider the purpose, Will it be perceived as a training exercise, a game, or a zen garden?
Tell a story, Do not get caught up in technical precision, use the technology to tell a human story
Experience
"One Beat At A Time"
An immersive display connected to a biosensor, visualizing the user's heart rate in real time with entrancing kaleidoscopic effects
Video Mood Board & Ideation
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AR
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Holographic Projector
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360 Video
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Stop Motion
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Mask on top of a video
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Womb Like Visuals
Technology
- Monochromatic LEDs and panels
- Kinect (+Creative Coding)
- Heart Rate Variability Sensor
- Arduino Kit
Trial and Error
Idea Conceptualization
Testing
Data Flow
Heart rate variability influences the experience in numerous ways.
Firstly, the speed of the heart beat is mapped onto the sound output, so if your heartbeat consists of 70 BPM the audio feedback will play 70 Beats per minute.
Secondly, the flickering or electrifying part of the experience is also synchronized with your actual heart rate and every time a flash appears it is in harmony with your actual heartbeat at that precise moment.
Arduino Heartbeat Touch Designer Transmission Mathematical Encoding Adjustment of Flicker & Sound
Symbolic Meaning of Elements
The symbolic underpinnings can be interpreted from the perspective of numerous traditions but are primarily a fusion between Neo-Platonic Buddhist and Catholic ideas.
Sphere = Most perfect platonic solid (most amount of volume with least amount of surface, and a symbol of the Psyche (Soul) in Renaissance Art
Geometric Pattern = Map of Consciousness /The Mathematical Unity of the Cosmos
Darkness = Sin/Delusion/Perishability/Despair/Depression
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