Aggregate Collection Lamp by CoCo Ree is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.

SilverLighting· 2020

Aggregate Collection Lamp

by CoCo Ree

Client: CoCo Ree Studios

Silver A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category

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The Design

About Aggregate Collection Lamp

Aggregate is a collection of three floor lamps made from recycled and discarded materials. Each lamp is built on a welded skeleton formed from discarded steel scraps. The body is sculpted by hand from a mixture of concrete, silica sand and shredded plastic bottles, applied over a thin alkali-resistant fiber base. The concrete mixture is worked like clay rather than cast in a mould, so each lamp has its own texture and silhouette. LED tube bulbs supply the light, and a step switch at the base turns each lamp on and off. The collection aims to give urban waste a new use.

The Recognition

About the Silver A' Design Award

Aggregate Collection Lamp is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Aggregate Collection Lamp is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Aggregate Collection Lamp is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

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Color Temperature: NeutralSymmetry: Both DirectionsBackground: Top and Bottom

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We transform recycled materials into award-winning lighting and furniture pieces. Our studio specializes in sculptural designs that blend artistic vision with functional brilliance, creating bespoke pieces that elevate spaces while honoring environmental responsibility.

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Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Each lamp uses a welded skeleton made from discarded steel scraps. The body is then sculpted with a custom mix of concrete and recycled plastic. Aggregate uses this material combination to revisit structure and texture. The concrete/plastic formula is powerful and malleable, transforming modern waste. Using recycled material, each lamp attempts to elevate discarded materials. Combining these materials with filtered LED bulbs, this project proudly benefits from design principles and artistic approaches, fusing craftsmanship with functionality of brilliantly bright light.
Dimensions & Packaging: The Walk
305mm x 1220mm x 1854mm
Holding on
457mm x 762mm x 1854mm
Broken
457mm x 457mm x 1854mm
Tags: floor lamp, light, concrete, sculptural light, lamp
Production Technology: The substance of sidewalks and skyscrapers, Concrete is perhaps the most ubiquitous material in our contemporary culture. I first started by experimenting with Portland Cement (Type I per ASTM C 150). With weight issues during the application, experiments started with the proportions of water, cement, and gravel and additives such as, sugar, salt, shredded cardboard, shredded plastic bottles and fiber glass. Ultimately, I used shredded plastic bottles (almost as polymer or acrylic fibers) with an ECC concrete and well-graded silica sands on top of a thin alkali-resistant fiber base produced the best and most unique results.
Design Challenge: By researching the effects of the growth of urban and industrial areas, what is the visual language of consumer globalization? Can design truly transform modern waste resulting from urban expansion and consumerism?
Research: This design aimed to reappropriate materials that create our current scenic backdrops. Exploring ways to use concrete as a clay, rather than casting the material, the concrete was mixed with shaved plastic bottles and sculpted.
Inspiration: With the challenge to see if a design could transform modern waste, this collection aimed to reuse existing materials to create distinctly bright lights. After replacing fluorescent bulbs with LED tube lights, I knew I wanted to use the LED tubes in a floor lamp. The structural inspiration came while doing quick figurative gesture sketches, the model used a rod as a prop, bending and holding it outstretched between poses. These sketches became the essence of the design, a design that used materials motivated by human contortion.
Project Duration: The project started in Hong Kong in November of 2018 and was finished and shown at Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA for three months in 2019.
Operation Flow: On/off step light switches can be found at the base of the light.
Image Credits: Photo credit: Aman Shakya