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Introduction

By Richard Sapper – Own work, CC BY 3.0

DJCAD gave us the task of making a remodel or an idea ispired by the features of the Tizio lamp. The Tizio lamp is a lamp designed by Richard Sapper for Artemide in 1972. It is renowned for it’s most known features which are is it’s counterweight system, it’s lack of wiring which were hidden in the frame and it’s halogen bulb which was mostly used in the automotive industry before.

Development of the Lamp

I decided to go for a different approach to the lamp by having a celling hanging lamp which uses both the hidden wiring system and the counterweight system. I started Sketches for the design of the lamp and eventually found a design which I thought could work quite well.

I made sketches for different ideas for the lamp. The 1st idea is a small simplistic light which would utilise 4 bulbs which would face in 2 different directions.

The second sketch is a similar looking idea than the first but is larger and the bulbs face in all 4 different directions. There is also 8 bulbs being used instead.

The third and final sketch is more complicated, it utilises 8 bulbs facing in 4 directions. Instead of using a rectangular base it uses a entirely different shape.

On all of the design, 2 bulbs are attached to a hand which can rotate 360 degrees on 1 axis, this allow the user customisation on the lamp look.

I then made some orthographic sketches of the third design with measurements for the lamp. After making those sketches, I started making the model of the lamp. I started with the 4 “I” Shape which would make the base of the lamp.

After that, I made top and the base of the shape by making the “+” shape. and then made the inner arms of the lamp. The problem with the design as I only realised now, is that both inner arms would shine their respective bulb onto themselves. This would have not been very useful as it would not necessarely light up a room very much and would have been a waste of electricty.

I then decided to change the design by cutting the lamp in half diagonaly, this enabled the lamp to only use 4 bulbs and allowed it to now have lights shining to each other. I made a new base for the lamp which was triangular based and attached it to the new model. I then attached both small arms to the lamp as it was needed to have the long arms anymore.

By making the lamp this way, it could be a design for a both a ceilling hanging lamp and a table lamp. I created a new 3D Model for the new design of the lamp and rendered it both hanging from the celling and on a shelf. If set on the celling, the lamp would respond just as a normal celling lamp would but if place on a shelf or table the lamp could switch on via a sensor which would detect when the lamp hand has been turned a sufficient amount (eg: 20 degrees). This means that they is no need for buttons on the final design.

The final model, looks like this

Thoughs and improvements

If I were to change something, I would change the way I approached the design task by preparing more. Due to my lack of preparation I failed to see that the lamp had a fundamental flaw. I also believe that the lamp could have been improved if I had made more models instead of just a single final model.