THE VOS PAD - New Age Lighting in Your Apartment
The state-of-the-art prototype apartment was designed by Marcel Jean Vos as a blueprint for future living. The lighting scheme sets a world precedent by being entirely based on fully dimmable, colour-changing light emitting diodes (LEDs) and demonstrates a comple tely new way of living with light. Decor and mood can be dramatically altered or gently mixed by microprocessor controlled lighting systems.
A custom-built computerised system that operates the lights, blinds and sound levels enables the user to have full ambient control at the touch of a button. Moods can be created instantly with pre-stored settings.
Plasma screens provide a high quality image with excellent colour fidelity. Their narrow profile and elegant design means that they can be placed throughout the home, including bathroom and kitchen as they are waterproof.
- 4 Plasmascreens (lounge, kitchen, bath, toilet)
- DVD, VHS, satellit, cable
The entire apartment comprises white walls that are simply washed with RGB LED bar units recessed in the floor and embedded under glass. Micro aluminum cube wall sconces in the kitchen and lounge provide contrast to the wallwashers and a dramatic effect on the softly illuminated walls and ceilings; they reinforce the sensation of spaciousness and enhance the purity of the surfaces.
The Vos Pad is the world`s first apartment of its kind.
Candela LED lamps
Rechargeable LED lamps are fantastic to have around the house because they give off soft light just like candles, but you can leave them anywhere you like without worrying about burning the place down.
Candela LED lamps equally useful on the dinner table or bedside. Patented, intelligent circuitry makes them illuminate automatically when lifted from the charging platter, and start to recharge as soon as they’re put back. They also turn on automatically during power failures so you always have an emergency light source within easy reach.
A set of four rechargeable lights replaces hundreds of dollars worth of wax candles, and they’re cleaner, more durable, and easier to use. Vessel’s SafeCharge™ induction system eliminates exposed electrical contacts, and each light is made of impact-resistant polycarbonate. Long-life warm-white LEDs provide the light source. When the batteries eventually start to lose their charge memory, they’re easily replaced to ensure years and years of light.
via: Gizmodo
TwistTogether Lamp
Made from hand-cast resin and lit from within by LEDs, these modular televsion-like lamps, from Brooklyn-based design studio Glide, cast an appealing mood light. Configurable in any number of arrangements, TwistTogethers are interactive objects to boot. Stacked between shelves (like glowing cinder blocks) they integrate lighting into furniture, making for an updated version of the college bookshelf or they can form right angles to wrap around corners and tabletop edges. They’re available in candy colors for a more pop feel or a “chocolate” palate that lends a 50s-era look. A set of four runs $399 or six are $585.
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Glass Wall at Morimoto
Tadao Ando is one of the greatest Japanese architecht within last hundered years, even more. He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism. His buildings are often characterized by complex three-dimensional circulation paths. These paths interweave between interior and exterior spaces formed both within large-scale geometric shapes and in the spaces between them.
Located in the building that contains Chelsea Market, between 15th and 16th Streets, Morimoto is located on the Tenth Avenue side of the market, and is on the same block as Buddakan, an Asian fusion restaurant that will open on February 22nd.
Budgeted at $12 million, the interior of Morimoto features Ando’s trademark use of concrete, but with softer touches. Inside, he has draped the interior space in swaths of white fiberglass-reinforced canvas, which flows across every inch of the ceiling. Upon entry, dining areas and sushi bar surround a central staircase that leads diners to the bar downstairs. In the floor-opening of the staircase, a dramatic installation of 17,400 water-filled glass bottles are each hung horizontally from the ceiling down to the below-grade level. Each glass bottle is fitted with an LED light that renders the simple installation into a multi-media show.
This glass wall is 2 stories high +/- 25′-0″. It made of glass bottles fitted with LED lights.
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reference: bookofjoe, philadelphiaweekly
Industrial Design Led Lamp
The Aquaphoenix LED Lamp was designed to project an image of solidity and robustness. With and all-metal design and a total weight of 50kg, the LED Lamp does not fail to impress in this respect. All parts are custom-machined from solid aluminum, with the exception of steel rotating joints, gas springs, chrome tubing, and steel screws.
In its most compact position, the structure is dimensioned at 30 cm (12 inches) in width, 58 cm (23 inches) in height, and 69 cm (27 inches) in depth. When fully extended, it can reach up to 91 cm (36 inches) in width having both shades opened to form a 180o angle between them; 114 cm (45 inches) in height when shades are facing the viewer or wall; and 89 cm (35 inches) in depth, extending 46 cm (18 inches) beyond the front of the base. These positions follow the range of possible use cases, including overhead lighting of a desk-space environment, and wall projection for ambient information displays or light projection for sound response.
Overall, the design is intended to create a well-rounded and compact feeling, projecting robustness, while allowing reasonable maneuvering, and portraying mechanical intricacies, while not including extraneous, non-functional design items.
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White Light
In Judith Fegerl’s White Light installation, red laser beams, light projections, and blinking LED’s, irritate our sight, as the artist transforms the automatic process of seeing into a definite experience, exposing light as the source of our vision.
The installation is made of three parts that represent red, green and blue light, whose different wavelengths combine to produce ‘white’ light. Each work takes as its starting point objects that alter or influence our sight, such as contact lenses or floating particles in the vitreous jelly of the eye. Reactions to these objects are then extracted and reproduced for the viewer, tangibly dissecting the process of sight.
The triptych consists of:
- Read Only Memory: the artist’s contactlenses are being scanned by moving lasersystems. The monochromatic light gets irritated by organic sedimentation combined with the deformation of the lens. An abstract self-transforming pattern is then projected. The contact lens, once a prosthetic device, turns into its opposite- a unique object with authentic optical and visual information, generated by the interaction with an organic body,
- Teardrop Floaters: the visitor’s eye movements are video tracked and algorithmically transferred onto the floater objects,
- and Will-o-the-Wisp: the light of the leds is glaring in the darkness and once it is off a shining circular mark remains on the retina. Similar pictures are additionally projected via videobeam inside the dark room.
Perceptual disturbance is produced by organic irritation and is combined with the virtual version of this characteristic.
White Light, at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, from 5 April till 4 May, 2006
Private view: 4 April, 6 - 9pm and artist talk: 8 April, 3pm.
from: wmmna
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Galleria Fashion Store - Seoul
The Building of Galleria West Shopping Centre in Seoul, Korea, is designed by Dutch architects UN Studio, has become the latest, intriguing style icon in the city and a world first for electronic facade technology. Ben van Berkel of UN Studio in association with Arup Lighting in Amsterdam have transformed the Galleria into a perpetually changing, light-reactive and computer-programmable radiant surface.
4330 discs, each 850mm in diameter, make up the entire facade of the mall. They can be programmed to generate up to 16M colours, showing astounding displays in every imaginable shade. At other times the building can even become a giant billboard, its pixels feeding text or images around the entire external structure.
Each disk houses its own LED luminaire. Together with Xilver Lighting, Gronsveld, the Netherlands, a system was created that is capable of producing 16 million different colors for each disk. At night, the individually lit disks respond to a computer program. “Each disk acts as a big pixel on a giant screen,” van der Heide points out. Mounted on brackets, all fixtures are lamped with four LEDs: two green, one blue and one red. Each emits a single watt. “The double green LEDs product a crisp and cool natural hue,” he says. “Typically, color-changing LEDs have a pinkish-magenta cast. The fixtures at the Galleria have an asymmetric throw that places the hot spots off-center. The disks appear to be glowing spheres,” he observes.
Cost of fabricating and constructing the steel structure was approximately $200 per square foot. This amount also includes the exterior steel supporting beams that span from one column to another to support the aluminum frame, the glass disks, LEDs and wiring. Each luminaire cost $55. The custom design and installation of the control system was $40,000.
via ddimagazine
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