Lightforms, Digitally Fabricated
Known to many architects as that translucent film paper on which archaic hand drawings become worthy of pin-up, mylar is making an illuminating entrance into the realm of the three-dimensional. From PROJECTiONE, students have lasercut mylar to produce pieces and joints to create these exquisite hand-assembled light shades.
Lightforms uses a parametric Grasshopper file in Rhinoceros that allows the user to adjust the size, rotation, and density of tiles on the form. This 'set of editable rules' in the software offers the freedom to immediately visualize any tile adjustments in Lightforms and prototype infinite iterations. While the mylar is indeed lasercut, the components are hand assembled in descending order using a series of simple locking joints to link piece to piece and column to column.
Below is a video showing the fabrication process of Lightforms:
Photos by PROJECTiONE
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For more information on Lightform and other projects by PROJECTiONE visit projectione.com
These light shades are really unique and have stolen my heart. I do wanna have such lights at my home.
We now have a DIY and assembled version of these for sale at PROJECTiONE.com!
It's great that you could use different color shapes to create custom lighting patterns.
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