In London, rain does not wet

London's 3D Barbican Center offers an exciting experience called 'Rain Room’ (Rain Room), An exhibition that combines art, Science and technology to ensure that it rains and that the visitor does not get wet. The effect is achieved thanks to a series of sensors and 3D cameras that stop the rain by detecting the proximity of people.

A new installation has opened at London's Barbican Centre 3D arts centre (United Kingdom). Although it is an artistic work, Its greatest attraction lies in the technology it uses.. The exhibition allows museum visitors to walk in the rain, but without the inconvenience of getting wet.

'Rain Room', Name given to the project, It consists of a room of 100 square meters enabled with motion sensors and 3D cameras that stop rain by detecting people. Everything works with a system of “impression” of water, that stops its production only in those points of the room that are occupied. This peculiar installation has been created by the art studio Random International and use around 1.000 liters of water every minute, which is filtered and reused as soon as it falls.

Those responsible for the assembly are Hannes Koch, Florian Ortkrass and Stuart Wood, Three artists who met in 2005 at the Royal College of Art in London and who decided to form the project Random International. Stuart Wood has described Rain Room as a “Social experiment” with the one they want “Offer people an exciting experience and see what their reaction is to this rain that does not wet”.

Through sensors and cameras people see how the rain falls from the roof on their head but when they move they are perceived by these devices that reduce the speed of rain fall and visitors feel as if they are able to stop the rain.. Those responsible for Rain Room hope that people will feel a sense of “Playful power”. In addition, no other sound is produced in the room than that of rain., soothing and hypnotic.

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