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DESIGN STATEMENT

Interference

Location: ILHA VERDE · MACAU

The formation of an image in the microscope relies on the complex inter- play between two critical optical phenomena: diffraction and interference. Light passing through the specimen is scattered and diffracted into divergent waves by tiny details and features present in the specimen. Some of the divergent light scattered by the specimen is captured by the objective and focused onto the intermediate image plane, where the superimposed light waves are recombined or summed through the process of interference to produce a magnified image of the specimen.

Interference, in physics, the net effect of the combination of two or more wave trains moving on intersecting or coincident paths. The effect is that of the addition of the amplitudes of the individual waves at each point affected by more than one wave.

When two stones are dropped into a pool of water, waves spread out from each source, and interference occurs where they overlap. Constructive interference results where the crest of one coincides with the crest of the other. Two wave trains of light from a double slit produce interference, an effect that is visible on a screen as a pattern of alternating dark and light bands caused by intensification and extinction at points at which the waves are in phase and out of phase, respectively.

Through a series of interference of simulation, the middle part creates a crack. Within that crack a new opportunity awaits, separating one solid object into two main part; Residential building and Commercial building, and making the bottom as the common area. This will create an immersive experience that no one ever experience before.