Art of Scent Designer: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Materials: Birch Plywood, Truppan MDF, Acrylic, Electronics, Fiberglass and plaster dimples, 3D printed bulges. Museum of Arts and Design This exhibit presented scent as art. D S + R designed a minimal environment with 12 scent stations, 5 automated scent card dispensers, and a table where participants could trace the evolution of a perfume. Photo D S + R / MAD 2012_1107_DSR_ArtofScent_0082 The burst of scent was triggered when one tripped the sensor by leaning into the dimple. Photo D S + R / MAD 2012_1107_DSR_ArtofScent_0262 The automated scent card dispensers replaced the perfumed cards when one was pulled out from the bulge.

IMG_1378One of the Dimples on review at DCM Fabrication Inc. IMG_1621 We pre-seamed the 3D printed bulges to frames that were later seamed in the architecture. IMG_1645 The wall framing supported the wall cantilever for the air return. IMG_1668 The dimples, acrylic for the rear projected labels, and bulges were seamed in the walls to be coplanar. IMG_1682 Yuichiro Nishizawa did a great job adapting parking ticket dispensers for the perfume cards. IMG_1694 The rear projected labels. IMG_1782

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