Criosfera

Overview

Criosfera is a floor luminaire in the Design Collection. The Ice Core of Criosfera is a layering of blown recycled glass with an optic core that evokes the stratification of polar ice. The external blown glass cylinder is the structure inside which the optoelectronic engine disappears without visible shadows.

Construction

The material is aluminium and glass; the colour is brushed aluminium. Engravings are impressed into the hot glass before blowing, which makes its thickness wavy and irregular. The section of the optical extrusion diffuses the light without making the sources inside visible.

Specifications

Height 1600 mm, glass diameter 100 mm, base diameter 390 mm. The luminaire is rated 17 W, 2022 lm at 3000 K, CRI 90 and IP20. Dimming is by push button.

Giulia Foscari UNA / UNLESS

The cryosphere encompasses all components of the Earth System that are frozen, and 90% of such ice is in Antarctica. The Ice Core of Criosfera abandons its frozen form: its blown recycled glass is layered over an optic core, which draws on how the Antarctic plateau's ice surface refracts light in order to maximise diffusion.