Desert Flowers. The lìght of ethnic minority desert tourism

The “Desert Flowers” lamp is a light device designed for desert scenic spots. We want to improve two problems.One is the problem of desert space: the Mutag Desert Scenic Spot is open and boundless during the day, and the lack of road signs and visual guidance hinders daytime travel activities in the desert. However, the desert space has limited illumination at night and lack of lighting sources, making it difficult to carry out night play activities, which weakens the vitality of the desert tourism economy.The second is to increase the cultural characteristics of desert scenic spots. The installation combines the local ethnic cultural characteristics to design lamps and lanterns that conform to the local customs and crowds, so as to increase the regional and ethnic characteristics of the tourist attractions.In the daytime, the installation can reflect sunlight. When the windmill rotates with the wind, the glare constantly flickers, forming a strong visual road sign, solving the problem of lack of guidance in the vast desert space.At night, the lamps can transmit light. When the windmill rotates with the wind, it projects colorful and scattered rotating patterns on the desert floor, which increases the atmosphere of national cultural characteristics of desert scenic spots and solves the problem of lack of cultural characteristics.The lamps are on the soil layer, and the rhizomes of multiple lamp poles can be connected to each other underground to form a root network, which can achieve the effect of strengthening the sand layer, windbreak and sand fixation to a certain extent.Lamps can have different functional values in different desert spaces. For example, in entertainment spaces such as desert sand skiing fields and sports fields, they can increase the atmosphere of the activity space through rotating colored light spots. In the singing and dancing space such as the bonfire party, colorful light and shadow can assist the singing and dancing performers, and set off with the rhythmic folk dance.The light source part of the device uses two kinds of solar materials: the outer fan blades are opaque reflective solar panels, and the solar surface is coated with metal paint, which diffusely reflects sunlight and can produce dazzling glare in the vast desert. The internal measurement is a transparent solar panel, and a transparent solar panel (TLSC) has been developed for the MSU team of Michigan State University. This technology uses organic molecules to absorb wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye, and absorbs invisible light to convert into solar energy storage. , allowing visible light to pass through the solar panel.The prototype of the installation design is taken from the fictional desert flower species in literary creation, Yimihua, whose petals are in the shape of a windmill and seem to rotate. There is only one root, and the color is extremely brilliant. The shape of the windmill adopts the Uyghur “almond” as the main form language. The shape design of the light pole part of the installation is inspired by the root shape of the desert plant Taklimakan willow, which can firmly take root in the desert. The spiral shape of the root system is in line with the shape of the windmill, and the spiral structure can reduce the wind in the desert.