Jason Bruger - Wind to Light

Wind to Light, Southbank Centre, 2007

Self powered. Swaying in the wind to create power. Beautiful night and day. Of a day you can see the intricate design working and of a night a swaying display of light. Adding to the artificial lighting at Southbank. 

 

In collaboration with onedotzero and Light Lab for Architecture Week 2007 of which the theme was, ‘How green is our space?’ The festival focused on critical issues of climate change and sustainability, with the aim to inspire people to think creatively about the spaces around them.

‘Wind to Light’ was an idea that visualized wind movement across the built form with the use of mini turbines and LEDs and draws attention to the potential of harnessing wind power as a source of energy.

The installation has been custom built, using scaled down wind turbines to generate power, which illuminate hundreds of mounted LEDS, creating firefly-like fields of light, with wind visually interpreted as electronic patterns across the installation.