OMA draws on the "fundamentals of geometry" for XY180 lights
OMA partner Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli explains how the firm explored "a fascination with point, line and surface" to create a lighting system, in this movie Dezeen produced for Delta Light.
The XY180 collection, which Delta Light first unveiled during Milan design week last year, is a modular lighting system designed around a hinged fixture that allows a range of different luminaires to be connected together.
The lighting elements comprise tube lights of different lengths, as well as spotlights in two sizes, which can be combined in a variety of different configurations.
"This is the first time that OMA has designed a lighting product with a very strong and specific identity," says Laparelli, a partner at the Rotterdam-based architecture firm led by Rem Koolhaas. "It is based on a fascination for very essential geometries ? probably the fundamentals of geometry ? a point, a line and a surface."
Laparelli worked with a young architect called Laurence Bolhaar and a product designer called Antonio Barone to develop the design.
"We didn't want the luminaire to be just an object, we were aiming for something that could perform," Bolhaar explains.
"For that reason we were looking for something that could move, that could swivel and turn. That's why we started working with the hinge."
Barrone adds: "A point that moves generates a line and a line that moves generates a plane, so we thought: 'How can we create a fixt...
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