Adams Pendant

At Radlab we recently completed a light pendant, and for both the process of generating design possibilities, and for solving issues of fabrication, vbscript for Rhino helped enormously. I've included some process images and photographs that we didn't post to the website.

Custom designed for a private residence in Southern California, the twin lanterns serve as hanging center pieces for the main gathering space. Given the height at which they were to be positioned and the space they were intended to illuminate, the goal of the design was to elicit a continuous fluidity of light and motion around each pendant. By developing an algorithm that referenced a volume, an external 'point' of view, and an array of surface control vertices, a textured volume of non-repetitive sections was achieved. A selection of unique isoparametric curves that undulate in both latitude and longitude were then sampled to produce the resultant form.