FANS explores in depth the methods, techniques, and materiality of designing with hot air. Through tracking precedents in creating forms with airflow with principles of natural physics, it articulates the forms and patterns of hot air interactively following geometric logics. Points, lines, curves, surfaces, volumes and textures are generated through temperature and motion as agent.

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“Fans” encompasses a series of experimental devices with various strategies of utilizing thermal- and aerodynamics. Operations on the duration, interval, and electric current in controlling the thermal components, as well as on the speed, direction, and sequencing to manipulate the movements, allow invisible forms of the airflow being created, sensed, and choreographed. This project presents the integration of multiple systems, fabrication processes, optical experiments and computational analysis and design, bearing questions at large on environmental aesthetics, with the potential of the invisible materials informing the design of the “visible”.