PROJECT INFO: Sound [Play]ce is an interactive tower which focuses on the movement of a body through both urban and domestic spaces by creating a series of unique environments to which the body will respond acoustically.
Inspired by the dolls’ house that Edwin Lutyens designed for The British Empire Exhibition in 1922 –Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, and Zaha Hadid were but a few of the 20 contemporary architects and designers, to design and build a dolls’ house for the 21st Century. Each dolls’ house was designed to include at least one feature that makes life easier for a child with a disability.
In conjunction with HLM Architects I designed and built an interactive dolls house and handheld dolls cast in various materials.
OUTCOME: Our dolls house was auctioned for 10,000 GBP
The differing sounds generated by a marble running through this system highlights a responsive design that aids visually impaired children with the often difficult process of forming global spatial images - be it during play or in the urban realm. By dropping a specially created ball bearing (glass, cork and wood) into the top of the house the ball passes through each room at random creating different sound effects from bells and chimes etc.
DOLLS:
With braille and ergonomic curves hand made dolls, were designed for the children to populate the house. Each doll is in a different material, demonstrating different weighted metals, ceramic, resin and rubber.
