Aerial Dynamics

Working with Jason Bruges Studio, David Di Duca project managed the delivery of Aerial Dynamics. The installation was the centre piece in the interior of the Coca-Cola Beatbox Pavilion at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The project comprised of 180 animatronic ‘nodes’ which were controlled by custom software and a bespoke power and data distribution system. Suspended from a 12m diameter truss within the pavilion ceiling, the installation was made up of over 20,000 LEDs, over 2 miles of cabling and thousands of bespoke aluminium components. Using Microsoft Kinect cameras to sense visitors behaviour, the nodes performed in synchronisation, expanding and contracting whilst changing colour in response to observers below.