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Uod Tlahuilli Pilcatl by Andrea Cingoli and Umberto La Sorda

Uod Tlahuilli Pilcatl by Andrea Cingoli and Umberto La Sorda is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2018 Mahuizolli A' Design Award Bronse in Tlahuilli Tlachihualli ihuan Tlahuiltequitilli Tlachihchihualiztli Competition Category.


BronseTlahuilli· 2018

Uod Tlahuilli Pilcatl

by Andrea Cingoli and Umberto La Sorda

Client: CONCEPTICONstudio

Mahuizolli A' Design Award Bronse Winner in Tlahuilli Category

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The Design

About Uod Tlahuilli Pilcatl

Uod se yolixmatqui tlahuilli pilcatl motlalia ipan chanyotl ihuan tequitiloyan. Nemi tlapilcayan ihuan huelis motequitilia ompa tlahuiltiliztli ica ahmoxpouhtli noso tequitl. Se tlanechicolli nehnenqui tzintiliztli quicueloa in tlazolli OLED tepantli inic in tlahuiltiani ixtlapal ixnamiqui in tequitiloyan tlapechtli tlatzintlan. Se tlanechicolli mobil tlapaltlahtolli quiixtlapoa in tlahuilli patlaniliztli ihuan quiyectlalia in tlahuilli chicahualiztli ihuan in xiuhtlacuiloliztli in tlahuilcaxitl. Tlaixnexiliztli momanahuia yeh caquiliztli in tepantli inon huel patla ipan huehcapan chicahualiztli, in ic momaquixtia chicahualiztli. Motequitilia teposcactli tlapechichictli, tepoztli ihuan OLED tepantli.

The Recognition

About the Mahuizolli A' Design Award Bronse

Uod Tlahuilli Pilcatl ca in quicuic in Mahuizolli A' Design Award Bronse, hueyi tlamahuizoliztli tlen momaca in cualli tlachihualli in motenehua ipampa yancuic tlamantli, tlamatiliztli ihuan ixtlamatiliztli. In quicuicah Bronse ca tlachihualli in quipia toltecayotl ihuan quinextia in cenca miac nemiliztli ihuan tlamatiliztli intlachihuanime. Ca quinequi in Uod Tlahuilli Pilcatl ca tlazohtli tlamantli, mahuiztic ihuan cualli. Ni dizayno in quicuic Bronse quipia cualli toltecayotl ihuan quitta in tlen tepiton. Uod Tlahuilli Pilcatl quipaquiltia in tlacah ihuan quitlamahuiztiltia in intlanequiliz.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Uod is a smart lamp. It is capable to discover the user, understand a particular functional circumstances and an environmental context; later it proposes the most comfortable solution and ideal to allow doing what is preferred, without exceeding in the mechanisms and energy consumption. It is anchored to the ceiling however able to turn into a table lamp for reading or working, placing its own illuminated surfaces in parallel to the working surface to improve the visual comforts of the users.
Dimensions & Packaging
W 1100mm x D 1100mm x H 500 mm
In particular:
Open 1100 mm of diameter.
Close 200 mm of diameter.
Chandelier height: 500 mm.
Besides the comfort of oled light use, it is added an important energy saving.
The chandelier uses not only the oled panels but also its transformation system to minimize the energy delivered; in fact in this way it doesn’t need to increase the power of the lighting sources but only to change thier position to improve the visual comfort on the beneath working surface.
Tags
Lamp, chandelier, smart, oled, satellite, movement, software, energy saving
Production Technology
Materials: brushed aluminum, steel, OLED panels, electronics.
The manufacturing process is done by press,bending, turning and cutting the elements.
Hereabove it is possible throughout a system of mobile stemswhich bend the extremely light oled panels allowing the direct light on the underlying working area. An electrical box coordinates all the system and connects the chandelier to the mobile devices.
Design Challenge
Today the objects are smart,but I want CLEVER objects; not just for being connected and automated, but in their design as well. Being
online just allows them more immediate and powerful characteristics. The challenge here was to create a
smart and sensitive object not only using high technology, but also turning something ordinary into
something more, making it very user friendly and giving it a unique design and concept.
Research
I wanted to focus on the user experience and try to combine a functional tool and an image archetype in order to produce an innovative object that guarantees flexibility and functionality, while keeping that familiarity of the object we're used to seeing. By using these familiar images, creating a hybrid of parallel world and languages, we decontextualize these forms and give them new meaning and make our lives better. The object fulfills its task by being innovative, not technological.
Inspiration
The mechanism which contributed to shape the chandelier has been inspired by the artificial satellites which adjusts the position of its own photovoltaic panels, according to its movements. Therefore the panels, instead of intercepting the solar/natural light, irradiate artificial light.
Project Duration
Started in March 2016 and finished in November 2016, in Teramo.
Operation Flow
The transformation, from a triangular base prism to an unidentified illuminating object, occurs independently. Uod is connected via bluetooth to each frequent users mobile, which is the tool used to feel the light on the table during the users work. At this point the oled panels start the orientation until the smartphone will report to the chandelier that the light is enough to do the willed function in the best way.
Therefore the illuminating panels stop themselves.
The app which manages the measurement of the light intensity also has a manual regulation system of the light power and the chandelier’s shape configuration.
Image Credits
CONCEPTICONstudio

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