DESIGN NAME: The Porthole
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Wall Light
INSPIRATION: The inspiration is taken from the porthole of the airplane. Every time on the plane, the joy and the excitement for the trip inside my body.When turn up the window and light exudes,it feels like turn on the light. The wall light will remind people of their time spent on the airplane, heading to destination on travel, and full of joy and excitement. We want to bring these feelings to people, especially under the Coronavirus when people have to stay at home, we may feel lonely, sad, depressed, but when we turn up the light, look through “The Porthole”, it seems like we are on the plane at present, looking out the window, ready to face a brand new day.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: "The Porthole" combines emotion and function perfectly. It comes in a familiar form and controlling way that people can recognize so they do not even need to learn how to turn on the light. The porthole touches mind especially when they appears in the house people live. The scene is changeable and can be customized. The scenario creates a unique touchable feeling and experience.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The lamp lights up in an attractive way by pulling up the window shade, the light becomes brighter while slowly opening the window. When the panel is completely open, the lamp will at its brightest.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in April 2021 and finished in Feburary 2022 in Shanghai.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The LED lampshade panel is coated with Na2O2 nanoparticles,
which can scatter light and decompose light of different wavelengths. The principle is similar to that of sunlight passing through the atmosphere, showing a lighting effect similar to that of sunlight.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 225*300*55mm
TAGS: Wall Light, Porthole, homme, lighting
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The wall light is not only an object hang on the wall. As it's on, its lighting panel can bring unlimited imagination. With creative design touches emotion , the light does not have to make people feel like a light, and the space people in does not have to feel like its in there room. This kind of "emotional" wall light is in lack.
CHALLENGE: The challenge comes in controlling the lightness by sliding the glareshield. This kind of controlling is the hardest part to realize.
ADDED DATE: 2022-02-25 09:09:22
TEAM MEMBERS (8) : Harry-Hongwei Yang, Zheng Pan, Meng Sheng, Xinyuan Xu, Xiliang Liu, Zijie Zhang, Peiwen Yang and Haojie Wang
IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1-#5: Designer Harry-Hongwei Yang, Variations, 2022.
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