Week 4: Stairwell LED Proposal

This LED installation design will comprise of vertical strips of LEDs that align with every other stair. They will have a cascading animation where each strip will glow on and off one after another so the motion appears to be going downwards. I decided to conform the geometry to an orthogonal grid pattern because the rest of the interior space has a very modernist sensibility that follows a very minimalist grid. For the color however, I am proposing bright red and blue colors to contrast the stairway from the monochromatic color scheme in the rest of the space. The color scheme and the downwards cascading animation will be implemented so that guests’ eyes will immediately go to the stairwell and know where to go next as soon as they enter from the ground floor.

Bill of Materials

60 x 6’ = 360’ = 110m in total | 22 x 5m rolls (RGB 5050 LED Strip Light, 60/m, 10mm wide) | $540

3 x DMX 24 Channel 5000 | 330 x 3 = $990

1 x 1000W EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G1+ 1000W | $150

120 6.6 LED Aluminum Channel | (Pack of 10 = $76) 12 * 76 | $912

80’ of 4AWG cable | $80

Approx total = $2700++

Week 2: LED Pixels + MadMapper

Hardware:

  • 5V Power Supply

  • LEDMX4 PRO

  • Ethernet Cable

  • LED Pixel Strip

Software:

  • Madmapper - communicating to LED pixel strip via SACN protocol

  • DMXKing - to configure static IP

We set up the interface and started to play around with the Madmapper. The interface is really fast and responsive to moving images (as demonstrated in the .gif with the webcam input).

DMX = Digital MultipleX

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Week 1: Case Study of Gweilo Light by Partisans

This is a product designed and developed by a Toronto based Architecture studio, Partisans. The acrylic sheets are etched with a matrix of dots, heated, deformed into different complex surface geometries and then lit from the edge with an LED strip. The sheets are deformed by hand so no two pieces are alike. To me, the effect from the light passing through this smooth, undulating and transparent surface is really sublime. This piece only produces diffused light and is most suitable for darker spaces so that the subtle luminescent output is noticeable. They also produce a variety of sizes, so it can be used as a space divider or just a tabletop night lamp.

images sourced from: DesignBoom

 
one of their bigger pieces

one of their bigger pieces