The project brief required for a single piece of material to be fabricated into a usable object with minimum material waste.

The light was fabricated from a single sheet of acrylic which was lasercut using Rhinoceros and Grasshopper and then parts were folded with tabs and assembled into place.

 

An Arduino single-board microcontroller was used to control the LED lights in response to a photo resistor
at the center of the light. The Arduino unit was interfaced with Grasshopper to allow real time results to be displayed on the computer while the lights were reacting.

 

The project was a study to see if active response systems could make every- day objects more interesting for the user. If products respond, seemingly intelligently to users, will they be used more often or for longer periods and therefore remain relevant? Could architecture do the same?