ClubAtlas: A Series of Dynamic Lights
‘A series of Dynamic Lights’ for Club Atlas’ main DJ-stage designed by a small team of creative and motivated students of the TU Delft.
ClubAtlas: A Series of Dynamic Lights, is a light project, aiming to break with the regular house parties and set a new standard for these events in Delft. We wanted to show other organisations what is possible if you join efforts with technical students. Being a student in Delft, there is a lot of talent to be found, may it be technical, visual or organizational. This resulted in three consecutive events with a new light installation for each of them. Live footage of the installations is rare and most of it is not of great quality. The best parties don’t have pictures! I uploaded what I could retrieve and added some renders to give you an idea of what the Dynamic Lights looked like.
Created by Gregoor van Diepen, Lukas Kropp, Jaap Le and Wilco van Iperen.
Rotor
The project started out in 2017 with a light installation that later was to be called ‘Rotor’. The original idea was a mobile. This is an hanging object with multiple weights and arms constructed to create an evenly balanced system, which seems to defy gravity.
What was derived from this original idea ended up to be quite a complex installation. Rotor consisted out of one large rotating beam with two smaller beams rotating under it. The movement was kind of straight forward, but making sure all the wires wouldn’t strangle during rotation, was quite a technical challenge. Finishing the project meant loads of moving pieces, 6 meters of led strip, and a lot of other electrical components.
Vogels
‘Vogels’ (2018), meaning “Birds” in Dutch, is an installation inspired by a bird-like motion. The idea first came from an old wooden toy, shaped like a bird, that used to hang above beds of little children. Underneath the bird is a string attached that, when pulled, makes the bird flap its wings.
We did a lot of research on creating an organic moving ‘Vogel’. In the version we developed, the bird-like motion is generated by an electric motor with a lever converting the circular movement in a sinusoidal motion.
Golf
The last project for ClubAtlas, ‘Golf’, was constructed in 2019. Imagine a group of driftwood floating on the waves in the middle of an open sea. Up and down in an endless cycle.
For this project we used the technology from the previous installation named ‘Vogels’. It was very interesting to apply the sinusoidal motion in a different way. I wasn’t able to find any videos of this last one, but I will be making some renders/animations to make up for that.
In the end three technical challenging projects were realized and it was a lot of fun doing so. Did we raise the bar to a new level for future house parties in Delft? Off course it’s hard to prove that we really did, but I sure do like to think so.