秋千时光，波士顿，美国

设计：霍韦勒与尹建筑事务所

秋千时光，波士顿，美国

设计：霍韦勒与尹建筑事务所

1 白天全景/Overall view at daytime

秋千时光是马萨诸塞州会议中心管理局城市更新计划“D上草坪”的一个临时装置。秋千时光将功能和美融为一体，突出了能源利用与游乐，以及能量生产与消耗的方式。这个城市游乐场由18个悬挂在特制太阳能顶篷下的旋转浇铸成形的聚丙烯秋千组成。秋千时光采用独立的供电系统，消耗由一系列光伏电池收集的太阳能，这些电池同时又会将紫外线转化为电子照明。

这个游乐场会实时响应环境的状况，并以照明体现每天收集的太阳能。整合在顶篷中的光伏电池会在白天收集和储存太阳能。整合通过自动化系统，积累的能量将传给秋千内的LED灯。这种“直接驱动”的用电方式使能量的消耗与生产保持一致。每个秋千内的加速传感器可直接响应使用者的加速力和倾斜度。当秋千从静止开始加速时，微型控制器就会按从白到蓝、再到紫的渐变过程调整LED显示。

秋千时光的响应元素让使用者相互交流并与秋千互动。公众娱乐由此形成了一个社区实验室，并提高了人们关于能源消耗和生产的意识。秋千时光将紫外线转化为视觉效果，显示出太阳能的充足和利用情况。（尚晋 译）

项目信息/Credits and Data

客户/Client: 马萨诸塞州会议中心管理局/Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA)

功能/Program: 临时公共空间装置/Temporary Public Space Installation

摄影/Photos: Höweler + Yoon Architecture, ©John Horner

Swing Time is a temporary installation located within the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority's urban renewal initiative, Lawn On D. The integrated functional and aesthetic properties of Swing Time foreground energy use and play, as well as a means of production and consumption.The urban playscape is composed of 18 roto-molded poly propolene swings, which hang under a customfabricated solar canopy. Swing Time uses a standalone power system that generates and consumes solar energy harvested from a series of photovoltaic cells that translate UV rays into electrical illumination.

Responsive in real-time to environmental conditions, the playscape's illumination corresponds to daily accumulation of solar power. Photovoltaic cells integrated into the canopy capture and store solar energy during daylight hours. Through an automated system, the accumulated energy is disseminated into LED lights housed within the swings. This "direct drive" electrical application allows energy to be consumed concurrent to its production. Accelerometers contained within each swing directly respond to the acceleration forces and tilt exerted by users. As the swings increase in momentum from a static position, a microcontroller adjusts the LED output through a gradient scale from white to blue to purple.

The responsive elements of Swing Time invite users to interact with the swings and with each other. Public play creates a community laboratory and raises awareness of energy consumption and production. Swing Time translates UV rays into a visual register that indexes the abundance and applications of solar energy.

2.3 夜景/Night view

4 夜景/Night view

评论

郭屹民：集成了功能与美学的月牙状秋千尽管依然可以让人有更多身体的适应方式，但显然设计师具有倾向性的设计给出了最适合的解答。同样，依靠光伏能源的自发光系统也使得夜晚浮游的月牙显出最为靓丽的姿态，那要远比白天的景致来得精彩许多！

朵宁：我对霍韦勒与尹这对组合最开始产生印象，源自于他们早期的一个设计：防御性短裙。穿着者身上装有距离传感器，当别人距离过近时，传感器被触发，裙装里隐藏的骨架像雨伞撑开一样支起，形成防御的姿态。

秋千时光这个设计也是他们的典型项目。传感器技术把可再生能源可视化，并和使用者的娱乐互动完美结合。

其实最吸引我的，还是他们项目中一直弥漫的某种现代社会人的忧郁气质。自动防御的裙装是一对一的警告；秋千时光这个在黑暗中摇曳的月亮秋千，依靠多人组成灯光阵列，秋千的摆幅则区分出不同颜色。两者的共同点是：用技术代替人的沟通。不再需要对话，交流由传感器和灯光完成。这种娱乐很极客。

Comments

GUO Yimin: Though there are many other ways for people to adapt their bodies to the crescent swing that integrates function with art, apparently the designer provides the most appropriate answer by his design with inclinations. Similar, the self-luminous system relying on photovoltaic energy gives the crescent shape the most attractive posture at night, which is much more splendid than its delicacy in daytime!

DUO Ning: I got the first impression of Höweler + Yoon from one of their early designs. The Defensible Dress was an installation in 2001. The dress is equipped with a distance sensor on the wearer's body. Once the sensor detect someone entering the personal space zone, a series of mechanical quills are activated like an umbrella to define the space around the body.

Swing Time has the same characteristic. An automated system together with motion sensors visualize the harvested solar power and integrate the user behavior.

I am attracted most by a consistent melancholy in their design. The Defensible Dress is a one-to-one alarm. Swing Time is an array of swings illuminated like moon in the dark. A group of users create the moon matrix and accelerometers differentiate each other by light. In both projects the communication between people is replaced by technology, and interaction is achieved by sensors and gadgets. It is a new geek way of entertainment.

Swing Time, Boston, USA, 2014-2016

Designers: Höweler + Yoon Architecture