Random International | Rain Room: Walk Through Rain Without Getting Wet

A hundred-square-meter dark room where heavy rain continuously falls, with water dropping from an array of ceiling nozzles onto a gridded floor and then recirculating. However, ceiling sensors detect people's positions and instantly shut off the water in those areas—wherever a person walks, the rain stops there, creating a dry void around their body. Thus, viewers can walk slowly through a downpour without getting wet, but if they walk too fast, the sensing cannot keep up. The space is completely dark, with only a strong horizontal spotlight shining from one side, illuminating the rain streaks and making people into backlit silhouettes. The sound of water is extremely loud. Shot from the side against the light, the lines of rain, the human-shaped void, and the silhouette are all visible simultaneously. Avoid: uniform lighting, sparse rainfall, delayed sensing, bright space where equipment is visible.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個一百平方公尺的暗室裡持續下著大雨,水從天花的噴頭陣列落到格柵地板再循環。但天花的感測器會偵測人的位置,並即時關閉那個區域的水——人走到哪裡,雨就在哪裡停,身體周圍永遠有一個乾燥的空洞。因此觀者可以在傾盆大雨中緩慢行走而不被淋濕,但只要走得太快,感測就跟不上。空間為全黑,只有一道強烈的水平投光從一側打過來,照亮雨絲並讓人成為逆光的剪影。水聲極大。從側面逆光拍攝,雨的線條、人形的空洞與剪影同時可見。避免:照明均勻、雨量稀疏、感測不即時、空間明亮看得見設備。