Resonance

Project Description

About This Project

Resonance is a climbable, large-scale bamboo queen's conch shell that transforms sound, light, and movement into a shared ritual journey. Standing three stories tall and built entirely from bamboo, it is an immersive art installation designed to be explored as a playground for movement and a sacred gathering space for deep, reflective listening.

The Experience

What It Feels Like

Participants enter beneath an undulating bamboo roof filled with massive bamboo wind chimes, warm light, and reflective shell fragments. Moving inward and upward, they spiral through the structure, playing, climbing, and listening as the architecture guides them across stairs, nets, ladders, platforms, and crevices. At sunrise and sunset, citizens gather as conch shells are blown together in a brief, coordinated call, honoring ancestors and natural cycles as many breaths become one voice. Throughout the structure, sound emerges, bamboo chimes, story shells, and immersive vibrations create an immersive environment that is felt as much as heard echoing the experience of being in water or inside a shell.

This project is currently in Fundraising stage. The experience above reflects the artist's vision for the completed work.

Inclusivity Statement

Resonance is committed to fostering a more radically inclusive and diverse community by amplifying BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices through sound, ritual, and collaboration. Indigenous and BIPOC community members are invited to lead land blessings and the sunrise and sunset conch rituals, offering words, prayers, or reflections that anchor the experience in lived cultural wisdom.

Materials & Regenerative Practices

The spiral form of Resonance is generated through parametric modeling, creating a precise and buildable interpretation of a conch shell. This digital model guides prefabrication, material calculations, and an augmented reality layout system used on site to assemble the structure with volunteer teams. A central hyperboloid bamboo tower provides vertical and lateral stability, while arched bamboo ribs, laminated arches, and bundled poles form the sweeping shell, locked together by an interwoven bamboo grid shell that creates a porous outer skin that allows wind and light to move through the structure. Resonance advances sustainability by demonstrating bamboo as a lightweight, strong, rapidly renewable, and carbon-sequestering material for large-scale art and architecture. By showcasing bamboo's structural beauty, strength, and flexibility at scale, Resonance promotes regenerative building practices and a more sustainable relationship with materials. Through precise digital and physical modeling as well as prefabricated components, the project minimizes waste and enables materials to be repurposed for future installations.