Project 2- Peer Comments

XiaoYa Zhang          http://2011jj.blogspot.com/2011/10/poject-2.html#comments

Clement Yoong         http://clementyoongides1031.blogspot.com/2011/10/project-2-upcycled-utility.html#comments

Cristine Liang            http://mad-attic.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcycling-project-2.html#comments

Wu Tingting               http://ttinging.blogspot.com/2011/10/project-two-ceiling-lamp.html#comments

Olivia Lin Qiuyuan      http://haresama.blogspot.com/2011/10/project-2.html#comments

Project 2-Upcycled Utility

Rationale:

For this project upcycled utility, my upcycled lamp is a pendant. It is made from JCDecaux poster. Here are my solutions of making this pendant light.

At first, I chose to make a pendant instead of a table lamp because I think pendant can rotate in the air and people need to raise their heads to look at it which can give us more amazing and elegant feelings. Then, I made a lot of research at paper pendant and experienced different kinds of folding and cutting technique. I found cutting lots of equal distance straight lines and folding a half in alternate directions seems to both have a third dimension and  pervious to light. It can become flat very easily as well. Thus, this cutting way became the main feature for my pendant light.

I made five pieces of sheets for outer layer but the problem was the globe in it was far away from the outer layer. So I decided to make another three pieces for inner layer to hide the globe and enrich the light.

Another challenge is how to connect these pieces to each other. At first I used the star clips and I found it is not very nice on the light and destroy the paper, so I cut a crack at one sheet and leave a part at another sheet to make itself can insert to the crack. It’s more original and organic. I made heaps of mock-ups to test their accurate sizes.

My cutting diagram shows the 1800mm*1200mm poster can make five lamps. And it still has the 25.4% percentage of wastage.  I made a mailing box which can let plug, support and the pendant be flat-packed to fit neatly. In addition, this pendant can be reasonably easy to assemble, disassemble and reassemble.

Poster :



Instructions:

Cutting diagram: