The foam light

This project won an excellent prize the highest award in Architectural Lighting Design Competition 2011 (a jury; Mr. Hiroshi Naito, Mr. Satoshi Uchihara, Ms. Yuko Nagayama, Mr. Mark Dytham, Mr. Shinji Maeshiba)

If, using the industrial product which is mineral matter, I can make gentle light…. For example, it is the light of the firefly and the slow gleam of the noctiluca….

It is simple article that hollowing out in square styrene foam, and put LED inside.

It is warm white such as the haze of skin eyes of the styrene foam, and the mysterious patterns, that a cluster-shaped particle like the cell of the creature create, surface.

The main body is a buffer material and can carry it willingly and is light or strong. It can be arranged a plant with Puff-Cal of the population of soil. In addition, it is changed an external form into favorite form by sharpening the surface with an attached file.

It is work of the illumination of quiet light, like the light of the creature which does not radiate heat.


Principal-in-charge : Fujino Takashi

Design : 2009.07 - 2009.09

発 泡 灯

建築家のあかりコンペ2011 (審査員 内藤廣氏,内原智史氏,永山祐子氏,マーク・ダイサム氏,前芝辰二氏)にて優秀賞を頂いた作品.

この照明は,無機質な工業製品に生き物のような光が点る.

3月の計画停電の闇は,本来の夜の美しさを私たちに教えた.照明の無い時代,人は,星月の輝きや,蝋燭の炎や,蛍や夜光虫の液体のような光に囲まれていた.そんな自然の光の贅沢さを見直し,過剰照明の不便を知り,必要なエネルギーだけを使う時代の明かりとして.


担当 : 藤野高志

設計期間:2009.07 - 2009.09