Have you ever found yourself
looking down at the places
that you've been to?
let find out
Gạch Bông
thousands of years’ decorative artefacts
right beneath our feet
this project (once was) the undergrad project of me and my collaborator, Phúc Thịnh, built on inspiration from the origins and the cultural and artistic values of the patterns of Gạch Bông, along with the desire to apply digital media art practice in expressing and conveying cultural heritage.
in addition to researching Gạch Bông, the project also aims to propose a method for presenting pattern-based artefacts in museums and public exhibitions in Vietnam
to gain a more objective
perspective on Gạch Bông,
we simultaneously
conducted document and
field research
document
research
primary materials were sourced from academic journals and reference publications from France and Spain, including studies by Yves Esquieu, Mario Baëck, Caroline Herbelin, Owen Jones, and others
relevant materials
[1] Soufan, A. (2015). An overview of cement tile manufacturing and importation in Syria and Lebanon: Damascus-Beirut, 1880s-1940s.
[2] Bravo-Nieto, A. (2015). La baldosa hidráulica en España. Algunos aspectos de su expansión industrial y evolución estética (1867-1960).
[3] Hernández Duque, F. (2009). The ancient hydraulic mosaic factories in Navarra.
[4] Colomban, P., Kirmizi, B., Gougeon, C., Gironda, M., & Cardinal, C. (2020). Pigments and glassy matrix of the 17th-18th century enamelled French watches: A non-invasive on-site Raman and pXRF study.
field
research
archive images from colonial buildings, villas, palaces, etc. in Saigon, Mekong Delta (My Tho, Can Tho, Bac Lieu, Vinh Long, and Ben Tre), and Hue
what if we recreated
these patterns
in a more interesting way
with projection mapping
on a plain tile floor?
create
mapping model
projection mapping technique is utilised to reconstruct encaustic tile patterns on plain tiles as modular canvases.
animating
patterns
main tiles
tiles carpet
border tiles
mapping
showcase
the performance was undertaken in a small-scale showcase to conduct an audience survey, evaluated the effectiveness, accessibility, and information-transmission capacity of cultural artefacts, which was later carried out in our graduation thesis
mapping
performance
full-recording (top view) of the mapping performance on plain tile floor
remarkable
achievement
in May 2024, Patterndown received First Prize in the Art & Entertainment category at FPT Edu Colour Up 2024, a nationwide competition geared towards innovations in preserving and promoting Vietnamese culture through technological applications
