The Final Project

Just like a clock every living person lives by a certain rhythm. This rhythm controls our sleep, energy and lots of other essential things. It is called the circadian rhyhtm.

With time the clock ages. The gearwheels get rusty and the clock can no longer show the right time. In other words it loses it rhythm. Just like the aged clock the aged humanbeing to loses track of its own rhythm.

This disturbance in rhythm causes in many cases insomnia. About 40% of the people older than 65 suffer from insomnia. This means that they have trouble going to sleep or staying asleep for a longer time. Their sleep gets very fragmented. Because of this they have to compensate their loss of sleep from the night during the day. They form their own irregular rhythm.

To illustrate this problem we are using a building in an urban presentation. The building we are using is the huge tower at Medborgarplatsen, Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden, as our building. We chose this building because of its location, near a public square where lots of people pass by every day, because it’s well known, because its populated, it is not a fancy office building it is an actual building where people live and because its huge and hard to miss.

Each window in this building will represent a human life. The windows will all have a light blinking in it. These blinkings symbolizes their sleep and awake time, that is their own personal rhythm. The majority of the windows will be blinking with the same rhythm and some will blink with their own rhythm. The windows that blink off-rhythm symbolize the ones that suffer from insomnia. When looking at the building you will see a big main rhythm and many smaller rhytms with a distortion that are trying to catch up with this main rhythm. The windows showing the smaller rhythms represent insomnia and insomnia represents ageing...