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Sanctuary 

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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

  • Context

  • Feel

  • Material

  • Sound

  • Style

  • Taste

  • Smell

  • Temperature 

User Persona

User Journey

Sensory Inputs

  • Motion Capturing Cameras (Holograms of Icons and Saints blessing people

  • 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

  • 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

  • Botanical Interior Architectural Landscape

  • Plotted on an open field

  • Open lighting sequences that shine through the exterior opening the ceiling heighten the structure’s physical immediacy and evoke sensual delight

  • Different Rooms

    • 1 main Sanctuary (Silky draped curtains)

Space Diagram

Ideation

  1. Sun Room, Depressed + need vitality

  2. Womb Room, Content + ready for deep healing

  3. 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

  • AR

  • Holographic Projector

  • 360 Video

  • Stop Motion

  • Mask on top of a video

  • 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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