Task
Theme: Play & Engagement
How might we design an exhibition that seeks to engage youths through placemaking and promote awareness of environmental sustainability with the usage of recycled paper tubes as the main building material?
Concept
What draws people’s attention better than themselves? A vanity mirror in a form of a human pin wall, a representation of the narcissism that is inherent in all of us.
Multiple mirrors across the large surface presents a series of reflections, backed with lights peeking from the edges, highlighting the geometry of the design. The installation allows for users to configure the pins, and thus the lighting, giving passers-by autonomy over the work. We hope to encourage interactions and leverage on the aesthetic appeal of the lighted mirrors to work as backdrops for passers-by to take photos with it. We embrace everyone's desire to appreciate aesthetically pleasing objects,
starting with ourselves.
Design
All CADs by Jeremy Yeh
Close-up and Front views.
Push-Pull interaction of users with each paper-tube mirror on the Vanity Wall.
Final Installation
Vanity Wall at Somerset Belt, its first installation location.
Vanity Wall in the day!
Vanity Wall at night, featuring its lighting!
Vanity Wall at Upper Changi MRT Station, its second installation location.
Different ways the public has interacted with the Vanity Wall!
Fabrication Process
Photos featuring our fabrication process, from ordering CNC-cut Plywood, Laser-cutting Plywood to cap the Paper Tubes and attach mirrors, Water-Proofing the Paper Tubes, to installing its lighting.
The Team
L-R: Tnee Yu Ling (Fabricator/Lighting), myself (Designer/Fabricator), Jeremy Yeh (Designer/Fabricator), Jee Chen Lin (Designer/Fabricator), Samantha Artiaga (Fabricator/Lighting).
This Team Project was completed in May 2021 as part of a Student Initiative, Project RE:Paper, under the guidance of the Project RE:Paper Team.
