SINGULARITY PAVILLION

Year: 2017

Location: Coachella Valley, Indio CA

Team: Guvenc Ozel, Benjamin Ennemoser

Proposed for the Coachella Valley Music Festival, Singularity is a robotically controlled architectural system and sculpture serving as a canopy during the day and becomes an interactive monument by night.

By attaching lightweight, carbon-fiber and fabric “wings” to 3 industrial robots, the project creates a programmable structure that can change shape so that it performs multiple functions throughout its life cycle. During the day, the robots position their wings horizontally with the optimal angle toward the sun, very slowly changing position as the sun moves, maximizing the amount of shade underneath. As the sun sets, the robots turn their wings slowly into an upright position, transforming into a tall architectural monument and a prominent visual marker on the expansive grounds of the Coachella festival. During the evening, artistic lighting schemes and interactive projection mapping content adorns the moving monument, increasing audience engagement and its presence in the Coachella skyline.

The pavilion offers a real-time relationship with the audience through the Coachella app, allowing Coachella participants the potential collective ability to control the shape and ambiance of the monument and/or to provide them visual cues about set times, real time activity markings and other forms of data visualizations. This level of heightened interaction is achieved through a combination of video projection mapping and Augmented Reality.