erik roger fuller : art - design - development
W-Hotel Chandelier
For this special project, I was contracted by a commercial fabrication service executing a design for a hotel lobby in Center City, Philadelphia. The architect had given an outline of the desired shape of a reflecting light piece, but delegated the main design to the fabricator. Many questions still remained about the actual execution of the piece.
Consequently, the project lead tasked me with solving several questions. How would these reflective pieces be distributed? How to assure that each individual reflective coin be oriented to produce a seamless shape? How could accurate distribution be manage with the thousands of reflectors used?
To this end, I used parametric modeling algorithms in Rhino Grasshopper to create a gentle cascade of light that would match the room lighting. In order to assure customer satisfaction with the product, I created photorealistic renderings in Keyshot of several iterations of the finished project.
I then took such a distribution and created a set of blueprints that allowed the fabricator to quickly and accurately lay out each string within the chandelier for construction. Finally, I developed manufacturing strategies with the fabricators to assure an efficient and visually compelling system of construction.