Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has created a collection of lighting designs, together with a brick-shaped mild designed to be constructed into masonry partitions.
The structure studio introduced two lights – Brick Mild and a tube chandelier referred to as 18 Ga – at an set up in Toronto, Canada.
Developed along with native metallurgy Filo Timo and architectural lighting producer Aaline, the brand new customizable merchandise are knowledgeable by city environments and use frequent constructing supplies in new methods.
The OG Brick mild blends seamlessly right into a brick wall, mixing in throughout the day and emitting a heat glow at night time.
Encased in a steel body and mesh floor, the sunshine is available in two sizes – a standard-sized brick and a double-width variant. It may be used each indoors and open air.
In accordance with the studio, the product is supposed to juxtapose architectural metalwork with the simplicity of brick.
“We see our work as integral and in symbiosis with the city cloth,” stated Omar Gandhi Architects (OGA) principal Omar Gandhi, a choose on the Dezeen Awards 2023. “You’ll be able to't contemplate supplies with out contemplating context.”
The 18 Ga lamp incorporates an industrial grade 18 gauge corrugated steel cladding that’s used as a reflector that diffuses a polycarbonate LED.
The design is out there in clear satin maple and satin black ash, however will also be custom-made as a desk lamp.
OGA created an set up referred to as Electrical within the dual-space gallery publish at Mason Studio in Toronto to debut each merchandise and place them in related context.
The OG Brick Mild was introduced in an deliberately incomplete wall of interlocking bricks, 18 Ga was hung above a bronze desk designed by Filo Timo.
Different displays included a lozenge-shaped block coated in lichen, additionally suspended from the ceiling.
“The set up did a superb job of presenting each merchandise in an understated means, woven into each the panorama and the city cloth,” Gandhi stated.
“It wasn't a gallery sort state of affairs, however relatively a glimpse or a snapshot of a extra sensible state of affairs. The panorama options helped deliver the gadgets out of the foreground to assist create a scene.”
Gandhi and his group collaborated with Vancouver studio Donohoe Residing Landscapes for the set up.
“There have been many the explanation why it was essential to incorporate pure supplies like lichen in our design,” stated Ryan Donohoe, studio principal.
“Predominantly, we wished to combine an natural texture into Omar Gandhi Architects' design, which softened the tough components and created a harmonious steadiness. With out the pure components, the house may have felt chilly and austere.”
Omar Gandhi Architects has developed different furnishings and lighting merchandise such because the White Rock Chair and the Alder Chandelier.
“For us, it's all in regards to the pleasure of design and the anxiousness of feeling like we're operating out of time,” Gandhi stated.
“We by some means discovered methods to discover it each in our tasks and as a aspect. I additionally like that this stuff can really feel free and indifferent from our work; generally stylistically, formally and texturally related greater than others with works of structure”
Dezeen not too long ago rounded up all of the architect-designed furnishings that was on show throughout this yr's Milan Design Week.
Photograph by Gwenael Lewis.