Aragonite Lamp

13" Length, 13" Width, 16" Height

 

Also seen on ETSY and www.Terraform-Design.com

 

The Aragonite Lamp was created using purely algorithmic modeling and parametric design.  The algorithm (as pictured below) that created this lamp takes any closed shape and transforms it into a barnacle-covered geometric lamp.  This particular output is made up of approximately 150 laser cut pieces of 2.7 millimeter thick birch plywood.  On the interior, each piece is labeled with a unique number to help aid in the somewhat complex building process.

 

The lamp gets its name from the Aragonite mineral - a rock with a radial crystal structure that grows outward from a central point.

 

I designed this lamp as well as the algorithm that creates the lamp using Rhinoceros CAD software with Grasshopper, a plugin for parametric design.