Firm： magicarch

Type： Commercial › Pop-Up Cultural › Gallery

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2014

SIZE： 0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET： $0 - 10K

This is the First Prize of international competition for architects and designers.

'The Light of Nativity' envisions a new form of contemporary reproduction of Christmas. The design is contemporary Nativity by a diorama lamp [1] with Manga [2] attitude, understanding Manga as the transfer of knowledge through informal drawings and graphics. This diorama lamp creates a highly communicative and stained glass [3] theatrical device, which becomes a place where can appear new stories, where the chromatic atmosphere surround is activated with Arduino [4] as a technological interface and where the users are fundamental to interact with the atmosphere.

[1] 'The word diorama [ˌdaɪəˈrɑːmə] can either refer to a 19th-century mobile theatre device, or, in modern usage, a three-dimensional full-size or miniature model. Dioramas are often built by several material and can contain different scales of landscape, architecture or domestic situation

[2] Manga: Informal (漫 man) and drawing (画 ga)

[3] The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings

[4] Arduino is a family of single-board microcontrollers, intended to make it easier to build interactive objects or environments.

LAMP OF THE NATIVITY

The proposal 'The Light of Nativity' has the main purpose of being a chronogramme of the most representative chapters of the Nativity story of becoming a stained glass enclosure device. This facility is itself an object and a scenography: When it is turn off his engravings show an overlay of the Christmas stories; and when is switch on, its projections become a three-dimensional story that immerses the users with his movement on the floor, on the walls and the ceiling. The lamp is programmed with Arduino that reinforcing the simultaneous use of the nativity scenes and lighting balance. Becoming a highly communicative, dynamic and persuasive story.

THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE NATIVITY

Each of 'The Light of Nativity' legs represents through his engravings to each of the 4 pillars of the first Nativity designers History. From the first to the most outstanding 4 sculptors and designers are shown in these four pillars of the Nativity: 1. SAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS (1182 ~ 1226); 2. FRANCISCO SALZILLO (1707 ~ 1783); 3. JOSEP ESTEVE I BONET (1741 ~ 1802); 4. AGAPIT VALLMITJANA Í BARBANY (1833) + Í AMADEU RAMON GRAU (1745)

FLEXIBLE LIGHT FOR ALL YEAR

The design of the 'lamp Nativity' is thought to be an object that can be used during the whole year, as the object of theatrical lighting, both static and dynamic. As well as having an easy adaptability to serve in different environments and contexts. All removable parts and adjust in height, or even eliminate the legs to be hung. The size of the physical installation is just 0.50X0.50X1.50m and it is able to illuminate spaces of various sizes till 8 meters of distance. In this case is illuminating a space of 3x3x3m

EASY TO INSTALL AND STORE IN A SUITCASE

The whole installation is intended for anyone to be able to assemble their parts. Christmas day can be the right time where the whole family gathers to assemble it. It only weighs 2 kilos and is easily transportable in a suitcase, as it is designed to be packed in a package of 45x25x10 cm.