THE ALLAGI FOUNTAIN
Industrial, Installation, Environment Design
Spring 2021, 6 weeks
Tools: Rhino 3D, V-Ray, Photoshop
Team: Individual
Awards: Scholastic Art and Writing National American Visions & Gold Metal, Architecture and Industrial Design
Scholastic Art Magazine Student Artist
The Allagi Fountain is an interactive public installation that sparks realizations about nature and life. The fountain’s outline has a vibrant organic form that compliments the softness of the water and acclimatizes with nature.
Three leaf-like wings surrounding the structure differ in size, contour, and angle. The term “Allagi” means “change, differentiation, and replacement” in Greek. In comparison, nature is a variable, and the fountain delineates the capriciousness of everyday life. As observers settle at arbitrary perspectives, their view of the structure is unique. When they rotate around the fountain, their previous interpretation of its structure is replaced by new understandings.
Throughout my life, many things have been fluctuating: my home, environment, and the people close to me. I hope that when people interact with the Allagi Fountain, they also relate to the idea of change on a personal level.
Exploded View
Dissection of organic form language and functions. The stairs, top covering, seatings and water pumper are layered on top of the base structure and converges to the center.
Elevation View
The elevation views offer a perspective how the average viewer observes it, and the subtle differences that come with different angles.
How does the structure’s form start to change as the we rotate around?
Inspired by a Cucumber
The Allagi Fountain is inspired by the cross-section of cucumber.
Watching my mother cut cucumber slices, I noticed that its flesh (the soft part in the center) had an incredibly animated and organic form. I used the flesh’s shape as the 2-D foundation and vertically extruded the structure.
As I noticed the remarkable resemblance between cucumber seeds and water droplets, I studied water ripples and incorporated their form into the staircase design. Lastly, I developed the three wings by reshaping and folding cucumber seeds.