My Brief

Cooling Rainbow

site: Riverside Walk- More London (LB Southwark)
Exhibition area in front of gym and west of GLA and the Scoop

The system will consist of nozzles projecting fine water drops onto Riverside Walk infront of the City Hall. This not only will surprise and delight passers/by visitors to LFA 2008 at the site, it will also presents a nice panorama view as the fine water drops not only cools the passers/by visitors during the summer, but occasionally creates an arc of coloured light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun’s rays by the fine water drops.
A key consideration is wind as it can become a stimulant for creating fine water pattern along the Riverside Walk.

• The LFA will coincide with the free music and film events at the Scoop.(from the brochure)
In the summer More London put on a programme of free entertainment in the Scoop which has included lunchtime music, film showings and performances of plays for children and adults

The project becomes more potential when it creates a relationship with the event of the site. The machine could be manipulated by music during the event, or possibly a machine that could interact with the pedestrian.
This process offers the opportunity to excite local and young people about the machine.

This will become a great opportunity for my team to learn from the experience of working
together in such multi-disciplinary teams.

Shen Fei Lam
Unit 10
Architectural Association School of Architecture