THE SENSITIVE NOISE

from Architectural Portfolio of Yikai Qiao

by Yikai Qiao

PLAN (UNPLANNED)

Design Computation Studio, Yale University

Instructor: Michael Szivos

Independent Work

Spring 2021

Inspired by the colored noise in the analog video, I try to develop a filter of the livestrem video that is sensitively influenced by the environmental sound, barometric pressure and tempreture. The two sensors are setup on the breadbaord, which is connected to the Arduino Uno. The ardiuno will transfer real-time environmetnal data to the computer. With processing software, the environmental data turns into influential factors on the live video, applying various distortions and electronic noises on the video. This small installation tries to provide an innovative method on perceiving the micro environmental effects happening in our daily life.

Every pixel of the livestream video will be defined by several factors influenced by the data transferred from the Arduino environmental sensor. The above two examples show how the color and the height-width ratio of the pixels could be affected and how the color noise could be simulated. With this installation, The sensors can capture the inperceptible changes of the surrounding atmophere and reflect it through visualization of this sensitive data.

Robotic Drawing

Architectural Robotics Class, Yale University

Instructor: Hakim Hasan

Collaborator: Amber Han Spring 2023

A topographic survey tends to depict an accurate elevation changes,includes locating all buildings, structures, aboveground utilities, and major trees on the subject property.

Architecture topography mapping should allow spaces for interpretation of land conditions. How can drawing encourage the imagination of spaces and lands? This project experiments with different drawing techniques to create diverse topographic surfaces at various line densities, discovering robotics expressions in demonstrating different stroke weights, ink saturation, and line continuity.