Firefly LED Proposals

Ambassador Bridge

Coupling the Ambassador Bridge’s beautiful engineering with a stunning, large scale wind installation, would make it one of the most striking pieces of public art and architecture in the world. With several thousand Firefly LED modules installed on the bridge, observers on the banks of the river would get a stunning show. They would see patterns of light flowing over the bridge as the LEDs light up according to the wind blowing over the structure. Waves of light would propagate over the bridge’s sides, towers and cables, responding to the gusts and lulls coming across the Detroit River.

Firefly LED is a solar powered modular system for visualizing the wind as it blows over large outdoor structures. The modules are dispersed over a large area on an outdoor structure, each operating autonomously. As the wind flows over the structure, the modules sense the wind, turning on in response to the variance in wind speed.

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Next to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston Harbor, the wind stirs up small choppy waves whose contours reflect the moonlight, breaking it into a series of dancing bluish, white flecks. The ICA's Firefly LED facade and the moon's reflection on the water complement each other, creating a beautiful organic light display with Boston skyline as a backdrop. People driving back from an event at the Bank of America Pavilion, and others returning home after their dinner, see the specs of white light cascading over the upper portion of the ICA.