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Tango Triangle Playground reacts to the users stepping on it: every time a panel is activated, it will light up and make a piano sound. When it is not being used, it will play entertaining animations.

An intervention that, by itself, would turn a circulation area into a “SPACE” to stop and stay, where their customers could bring their kids and families and spend some quality time interacting with other kids and families.

For this project we teamed up with the Shanghai-based American engineer and interactive designer Maciej Dudek, from Squiggle Labs, to generate responsive feature.

Based on new generation dancing games, we created a lighting & musical responsive platform reacting to people’s steps onto the triangular panels.

Capacitive sensors placed underneath the glass would feel the electromagnetic field and trigger a light blink and a musical piano tone every time someone would step on it.

Visually designed as a fractal combination of equilateral triangles, it also counts with a graphic design based on interesting patterns within each triangle seeking for a visual impact as an attractor mode whenever nobody was stepping on it.

The Triangle Tango is a public intervention designed for the annual International Summer Festival, organized by Life Hub @ Daning in their privately-owned public space within their open-air Retail Street.

Life Hub @ Daning, a 250,000 sqm mixed use development with 110,000 sqm shopping mall, is one of the hottest shopping centers in Shanghai, due to it’s open-air retail street.

Project name: Triangle Tango

Designer: 100architects

Design team: Marcial Jesus, Javier Gonzalez, Eunice Tsa

Client: Life Hub @ Daning, (Chongbang Group)

Location: Daning Road, Jin’An District, Shanghai, China

Built area: 120m2

Completion: June 2017

Photographer: Amey Kandalgaonkar