Pagoda Munus Primarium: Lucerna Mensae by Zongming Liu and Xingchen Pan

Pagoda Munus Primarium: Lucerna Mensae by Zongming Liu and Xingchen Pan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Designatio Luminarium Competition Category.

FerrumLuminaria· 2023

Pagoda Munus Primarium: Lucerna Mensae

by Zongming Liu and Xingchen Pan

Client: Shaanxi University of Science and Technology

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Luminaria Category

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The Design

About Pagoda Munus Primarium: Lucerna Mensae

Textus Libri: Pagoda est lucerna mensae sine externo commutatore designata. Lucerna tegumentum instar pagodae habet, quod fontem lucis intus continet. Moderatio in formam ipsam inserta est. Utentes manum in summo ponunt et formam dextrorsum vertunt ut lumen accendant et claritatem augeant. Sinistrorsum vertendo claritas minuitur et lumen exstinguitur. Tegumentum ex ligno teak factum est, quod ad stabilitatem et resistentiam usui siccatur. Lignum calorem lente conducit, ideoque superficies calida sentitur. Lucerna decem per decem per viginti centimetra metitur.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

Pagoda Munus Primarium: Lucerna Mensae victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Pagoda Munus Primarium: Lucerna Mensae creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Pagoda Munus Primarium: Lucerna Mensae ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is a lamp design with no external switch. Its appearance and function are unique. Its bulbs are inside the shape of the pagoda. This is a very rare appearance. As for functionality, the biggest difference is that it has no obvious on/off switch. Its switches are integrated into the pagoda shape. Users can turn the light on and off by placing their hand on the top of the product and gently rotating it. Users can adjust its brightness in this way. That's what makes it unique. This unique design can give users a better experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: length 10cm x Width 10cm x Height 20cm
Tags: Light, Lamp, No switch, Pagoda, different, Beautiful, Rotate
Production Technology: The shell of the product is made of teak wood, which is all a dry shrinkage is wet bilge minimum deformation of wood, after professional drying treatment, stable size very wear-resisting. Therefore, suitable for frequent using product. And heat conduction of wood is slow enough to let user feel warm.
Design Challenge: This is an innovative design with a complex internal structure, and the machining qualification rate is the biggest challenge encountered by this project.
Research: Desk lamp is the product that every family user will buy, have huge market. According to the survey, most lamps are priced below 30 euros. Now the shape of the desk lamp is more fixed. A unique and affordable lamp has great market value. Desk lamp basically is Illumination action, facilitate reading, study, work. As the ceaseless development of desk lamp appearance, modelling, desk lamp has far exceeded the value of desk lamp itself, the desk lamp has become an artwork.
Inspiration: I got my inspiration from Buddhist pagodas. The luminous pagodas represent the sacred meaning of Buddhism and the path to enlightenment, providing wisdom to the world through the holy light. And we used this meaning to design this lamp. The lamp is also a product for lighting up the night. Our design motivation was to make traditional symbols as unique as possible in modern products. We changed the way this lamp opens and closes. Artfully rotated through the shape of the pagoda.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2022 in Milan and finished in February 2023 in that place, and was exhibited in China in February 2023.
Operation Flow: First, users connect the pagoda to a power source. Second, place your hand on the top and rotate the shape clockwise to light it up. Third, continue pushing clockwise to increase brightness. Finally, if you want to lower the brightness or turn off the light, push the bulb counterclockwise.
Team Members: Zhihao Zhao
Xizi Wang
Li Zhao
Zixing Zhu
Mengyu Su
Image Credits: Creator (Bruce Tao / Designer)