Lumiocity - NJIT Brick Build Competition 2016

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Professor: Angus Eade Type: Design Build Location: Newark, NJ, USA Programs Used: Rhino, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop

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"LUMIOCITY" seeks to extend traditional masonry practices, scope, and markets through its emphasis on “light” (both in light construction and illumination). In service of the project’s occupants and the profession of masonry, the objectives include a meditation on light as well as developing applications for solving contemporary design problems beyond NJIT. This prototype for a rainscreen system redefines mortar as a “network by which things are held together” and different ways masonry units can be aggregated. Steel reinforcement serves as a stand­-in for the mortar to produce a lightweight, floating effect; the steel makes for precise, accurate, and fast construction. In investigating the concepts of economies of means and economies of scale, the pre­-fabrication process for this project allows for efficient on­site construction and the ability to apply this system multiple times in any location around the world. The goal is to develop and prototype new applications in the practices of masonry ­applications that promote and update masonry as a craft that can respond to markets in a rapidly changing world. The experiential study of light in this project is an off­-the­-grid lighting application which can be plugged into each aggregated unit to capture sunlight during the day and radiate ambient light at night.


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1 Split

2 Separate

3 Shift

4 Stack

5 Structure

6 Stability

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Perspective


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Plan

Unit Assembly

光 The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. -Le Corbusier

LUMINA

CВЕТЛИНА

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling. -Leonardo da Vinci

...Light is the beautifier of the building. -Frank Lloyd Wright

LUCE

The sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. -Alexandra Elle

Construction

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. -Albus Dumbledore

LJSIÐ

ŚWIATŁO

Everything the light touches is our kingdom.

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-Mufasa

And at last I see the light and it's like the fog has lifted. -Rapunzel

I�IK

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle Onassis

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -Dylan Thomas

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LYSE

The candle is not lit to give light, but to testify to the night. -Robert Bly

LICHT

We are all broken, that's how the light gets in. -Ernest Hemingway

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. -Thomas Fuller

Here I stand in the light of day. -Elsa

LUMIÉRE

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light. -Hans Hofmann

DRIT

Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all the other lights go out. -J.R.R. Tolkien

LJUS

The stars... give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. -John Milton

LYS

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. -Francis Bacon

легкий

ILAW

LIGHT

It's not what you have on the outsides that glitters in lights, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark. -Anthony Liccione

LUCE

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. -Le Corbusier

LUMINA

Elevation


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Daytime View

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Nighttime View


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