This is the first prototype of a chandelier I'm designing using T5 flourescents. Definitely needs more lights...
LQ Chandelier Detail
Spectacular details of an LQ chandelier at Phillips De Pury.
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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Mega LQ Chandelier at Phillips De Pury
There are two giant LQ chandeliers at the Asymptote opening at Phillips De Pury.
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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
LQ Chandelier
Our design for the LQ Chandelier is the latest addition to Zumtobel’s Avant Garde Collection. The form is made from a single minimal surface component that can expand infinitely via seamless edge to edge connections.
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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Zumtobel Chandelier
This is a chandelier that we are designing at Asymptote for lighting manufacturer Zumtobel. The idea is to produce a a single minimal surface component that can expand infinitely via seamless edge to edge connections. The form is generated by a scripting process I’m developing that evolves the topology of a primitive towards particular goals, in this instance heightened refraction and a lack of undercut surfaces.
Candelabra
Photo by Isa Wipfli
Candelabra is a design research project I done in collaboration with David Boira and Zoe Coombes, based on the work with minimal surfaces and genetic organization I did in Bill Macdonald’s studio at Columbia. The intention was to produce a chandelier that relies on its architecture rather than its technology for its performance. The curvature of the components was optimized to refract light as well as to connect seamlessly at its edges either in plane or offset. This logic allows for multiple configurations that were in the end sampled from the refractive behavior of digital flocking patterns (very Bill Macdonald). Best of all, its black.
The pieces themselves are made from vaccum formed plastic and fiberglass, covered in tons of bondo, sanded, and finished with primer and auto body paint. They and are attached at the edges by laser cut petg plates. They were made in a very intense 4 day spell in the MOMA PS-1 workshop under the premise that we were building prototypes for their summer jam series.
Photography courtesy of Isa Wipfli.
Assembly
These proofsheets show various configurations of our chandelier during assembly.