The Singapore Changi airport inaugurates a spectacular kinetic art sculpture

Art is also part of advertising, How is it revealed at the Changi airport in Singapore, where a kinetic art installation called ‘Kinetic Rain has been created’ created by the German design study art+com.

With the collaboration of the Digital Design and Technology Agency Art+with, Singapore Changi Airport has implemented a kinetic art installation in the terminal 1. The sculpture , llamada ‘Kinetic Rain’, It is located on the output stairs of the terminal and consists of two segments that use 1.216 Aluminum drops coated with bronze. The installation occupies 75 MEOT METERS OF SURFACE AND 7,3 meters high and is composed of two sections that contain 608 drops each.

Each drop is linked by a steel cable to the hidden engines on the roof. Drops move accurately, from top to bottom, following patterns controlled by special software. The drops follow a choreography of 15 minutes, in which the two segments move in unison, as a complement and sometimes responding to each other, To form figures like an airplane, a balloon or a kite, To represent the beauty and harmony with which they move in the air.

Additionally to this show, The airport has installed some lights at the bottom to make a shadow game on the roof with its movements as the drops illuminate. The technical implementation has been in charge of MKT, Olching.

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