Tuesday, December 1, 2009

LUMINESCENCE.

Final Luminaire

For my final model, I used one magazine that was still bound and cut it in a way so that when the pages were folded in, there was a hollow center to place the bulb.

Orthographic Drawings
Front View

Top View

Base

Underneath (where the bulb is placed)


TRIAL RUNS

This was my first rendition. It was made from two magazines but there was no where to place the bulb and was too dense to allow enough light to penetrate through the pages.


For my second try, I decided to only use a select number of pages to allow more light to filter through. But it wasn't quite what I imagined and was too flimsy, and all of the light poured out of the top. I then resorted back to my original idea, and made changes to make it work.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

LUMINESCENCE. design research.


For our upcoming project, the task at hand is to create a luminaire. By using only 3 materials, 2 of which have to have been used in previous projects, we must "create a field of light that articulates the surface upon which it is cast." After receiving the guidelines, my first thought was to begin to think of what materials I would use. Much of my inspiration comes from using common materials, such as old magazines and books, and recycling them into a new form of an object. For this project, I hope to incorporate old books/magazines to form a luminaire. Whether this will turn out, we will see.
After researching different forms of light, I was inspired by the site starbrick.info. For the light source they developed, they used the idea of stacking. In the light source, three types of spaces were defined. The three spaces are defined by, "the solid structure of the module itself, the negative space at its core in the shape of a ‘cubeoctahedron’, and the polyhedric spheres that appear between the modules when stacked." I plan to incorporate all three of these ideas in my model.

Here are some photos that inspired me. I plan to use the idea of light peering through cracks and crevasses and light reflecting off of color.


Furthermore, here are images of actual objets and lamps that inspired me.








Saturday, October 31, 2009

ONE POINT PERSPECTIVE

EUC Hallway

Second floor of Gatewood

Jackson Library

EUC Hallway

Thursday, October 29, 2009

DIALOG COMPARISON

As I looked through out the room at all of my fellow students models, two particular ones caught my attention. Of all the projects, only in a few did I find where negative space was incorporated in the project to make one or more of the spaces. In one example, a four sided shape made up of bristol board clearly defined one of the required two spaces. For the second space, the same shape was repeated but was formed by a frame of skewers. Even though there were not solid walls around the space, the area was clearly define. The two spaces/shapes fit together perfectly like puzzle pieces.
The second project that incorporated the idea of negative space was a cube that was formed by two separate triangles put together. The frame of the cube was made up of the skewers and bristol board ran along the middle, cutting the space into two equal parts. Once again, this project's spaces were made up of the negative space that was created from the frame of the skewers. The two areas were proportionate to one another, and once again, fit together.

DIALOG

This project was titled, "Dialog." The object was to create two spaces that "relate to one another in a mutually supportive way," using 12 pieces of 4"x6" bristol board and 12 skewers. We were limited to only making one fold with each piece of bristol board.

My first idea was to use parallels, but the result was a little bland.



In my next model, I made two spaces that were more defined.




I was then given the suggestion that the spaces would more clearly be defined if the model was turned upside down.



After yet another critique, I was advised that if two skewers were place in the middle, it would break up and define the space even more. Below is my final model.


PARTI


ORTHOGRAPHIC

PLAN


SECTION


FRONT ELEVATION


RIGHT ELEVATION







ORTHOGRAPHIC OF MODEL












ONE POINT PERSPECTIVE

Monday, October 19, 2009