and then was light

i will spare only few lines to explain this project as I didn't particularly enjoy it itself and the whole class it was part of, but whatever, let's try to establish a democratic blog :) 

the course was called "make", should have been a model making class (has been incredibly disappointing to find myself making jewelery instead...): at first we have been asked to create a wearable object out of paper; the investigation of the shape and peculiarities of it should have then lead to another wearable object, made of timber and metal. 

By working on the same concept we were asked to experiment with acrylic and wood. 

For the final object we should have then have used all the skills learned in the making of the previous prototypes to create something that would have "dressed a space" by repeating itself or a part of it. Sticking with the same shape of the previous models, the final design resulted in a lamp formed by clear drinking straws lined up to form a sort of extrusion of the initial shape. The object has the structuralism of a proper building and the blueish light that it emanates resembles that of the neon of a modern office.