St Peter’s Seminary, Scotland

Academic project during my Part I at the University of Nottingham.

This design installation would be utilised to uplift the spiritual atmosphere by the alter within the St Peter’s Seminary. Using soft colours, pattern and sound, the installation creates dramatic visual and acoustic effect, contributing to an already spiritually poetic space.

Cymatics is used with various frequencies of sound to penetrate through components that have a membrane on the underside. A small amount of water is placed within the components, creating a range of patterns, depending on the geometry of the membrane and the frequency levels.

Spanning across one booth the components hang using ‘tensegrity’ - a structural principle based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension, in such a way that the compressed members (the string) do not touch each other.