Ari Bible

Color, Material, and Light

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Under the instruction of Mary Guzowski, two lighting fixtures are designed and constructed. The first is inspired by the study of Tadao Ando’s Water Temple, and the second is conceived to suit the unique needs of a multipurpose office, teaching, and performance space.

Inspired by Ando

base formwork + innermost screen cube
fixture as object, golden rectangles in elevation
watery projected light
looking directly in reveals layers of rotated cubes, each supporting the next

Tight Light

initial explorations
investigation of fiber as screen, shade, tensile member
final fixture composed of inscribed regular geometries
from below
in situ
thread and basswood in daylight
complexity emerges even from simple geometries