Lace LED

London-based Margot Krasojević Architects designed a Led light that is 3D-printable in an infinite sequence of configurations, using recycled post-consumer plastics.

Margot Krasojević Architects, Lace LED, 2016
The lace LED is an example of 3D printed product design investigating the importance of recycling and re-appropriating plastics. The LED light diffuser is printed with recycled post-consumer plastics like synthetic polymer packaging found in take-away food containers as well as 3D printer off-cuts.
Margot Krasojević Architects, Lace LED, 2016
Margot Krasojević Architects, Lace LED, 2016
The light’s geometry is a series of complex dimensions, similar to a fractal the shapes perceived are neither one or two-dimensional, they are considered fractional dimensions suggesting the surface is neither a plane or a complete form. Fractal dimensions reserve self-similarity across scales, only being restricted through context in this case the envelope and boundary of the light’s form, the pattern configurations have similar characteristics to a piece of woven lace.
Margot Krasojević Architects, Lace LED, 2016
Margot Krasojević Architects, Lace LED, 2016
The Lace LED is an example of scale invariance, an exact form of self-similarity where at any magnification there is a smaller piece of the object that is similar to the whole. These complex shapes direct LED light through the entire pattern, which diffuses, deflects and refracts light creating a moving shadow whilst focusing it. The form is the antithesis of the mass-produced recycled bottles and waste used in its fabrication. The parametric design pattern comes in an infinite sequence of configurations from digital model to printed object.

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