transitive light system

lighting design for mizar lighting, badoere di morgano, italy

We, as men living in a civilized world and inside a vast cityscape that is fi lled with uncountable number of artifi cial light that each produce their own amounts intensity and color, accept and adopt to this chaotic parade of artifi ciality everyday. Still, in a larger scale, we are governed by the schedule of the nature even inside of the largest metropolitan environment: routinely, we get up when the sun comes up, we got to bed when it becomes dark. We are living between the two worlds: the world of natural lights and the world of artifi cial lights that take turn and overlap with each other continually. As we live through the day, we constantly switch between the natural lights and the artifi cial lights. For example, we get up in the morning under the morning sun, and go to the bathroom, turn on the light is completely different from the morning light from minutes ago. We get out to the house to the daylight, and then to the underground subway station which is, again, a completely artifi cial light environment that is different from the daylight. When the sun is about to come down, the color of the sky changes dramatically from the color of the sky during the day and during the morning. At the sunset, the contrast between the natural and the artifi cial lights become very apparent. Various hues of lights of the city turn on and make a contrast with the sunset. As we make this numerous environmental changes throughout the day, we have grown to be customized and numb to the changes of our environment. Are we giving up the beauty of the nature that are still available to us in our daily lives in the cityscape?

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floro

lighting design for Interieurs, New York, USA

floro was developed for a new york city showroom with the intnet to have the use of alternative shades and lighing textures depending on: the time of year, the aestetic & general feeling of the showroom and on the collection to be presented. floro is constructed of simple sinuous materials and was produced in the us.

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topiade

facade architecitre for louis vuitton, paris, france
supervised by clino t. castelli, milan italy

Topiade is a lay over facade structure designed to enable a
renewal of an existing retail store building without major
reconstructions. The concept of Topiade was created by
identifying central attributes of the famous French fashion
brand, Louis Vuitton : Luxury, French, and Craftsmanship.

The designs that we produced were of this nature and could be
thought of as conduits to the outside and the inside. Simply
the goal was to create a LV building “alive” and to make it so
that people are able to experience this “aliveness” each day that
they own and use a LV product.

A comprehensive research was carried out on the design, brand
perception, brand identity, global marketing and sales, and
competitor strategy before the generation of the concept which
suggest a slight shift in the current art direction of Louis Vuitton.
4 independent concepts with a total of 12 permutations of these concepts
was investigated. Each of these designs addressed the needs of
expanding the idea of LV façade design, the use of topiary art
as well as pushing further with the idea of modular facade systems
applicable to Louis Vuitton.

Topiade brings to the facade of the building a vertical version of
the luxurious and traditional French garden that redefine Louis Vuitton's virtue. Several variants are proposed within the concept. Real topiary blocks are arranged on the facade, behind them is a net of water / nutrient feeding system. Every so often, a real gardner is to be dispatched and maintain the topiary plants while creating an interesting scene around the building.

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dot_mm

facade design for media markt, rostock, germany

Dot MM is a cross over project between brand identity and building facade for a large European electronics retail chain, Media Markt. The project, took second place in an international Media Markt competition and is a lay-over facade structure that incorporates the function of billboards and interaction while providing a visual spectacle and serving as a landmark.

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