Physical Prototype

In our initial discussions, we compared the purely square form and the house with a sloping roof, discussing which would be better for the user to use the lamp as he or she understood it. In the end, we decided to use a more abstract small house form to suggest a home application scenario. At the same time, several sides of the house will be set up with rails so that users can attach personalized stickers or textured cards to the shade, giving the lamp a personalized connotation that fits different people's understanding of the concept of home and companionship.

Several iterations of the model were carried out in Rhino, and the size was designed to be slightly larger so that the decorative paper cutouts that could be attached to the shade would be large enough to express different patterns. The three materials are used in this prototype: 3D printed frame, frosted acrylic sheet and wooden base with a rotation track. The bonding surfaces where the parts meet and the junction of the rotation track were designed with a tolerance to ensure the smooth rotation of the lampshade on the base and the ability to freely fix paper cutouts with individual patterns to the external frame at a later stage.

We used a combination of digital fabrication and manual assembling. In the diagram below, the gray part is the 3D-printed lampshade frame, the light blue is the manually assembled frosted acrylic sheet, and the light yellow is the wooden base consisting of 3 layers of laser-cut 1/4" basswood boards.