Moscow, Russian Federation
Alexey Danilin, Nikita Morozov, Natalia Danilova, Karim Tabishchev, and Dmitry Cherednikov, designers of Maytoni, reinvent lighting fixtures’ design and launch Supersymmetry, a smart lighting fixture that transforms from a vertical source of soft diffused light to a horizontal source of concentrated functional light for work, creation, and close communication.
The Supersymmetry project has been awarded a 2020 Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The pursuit of a humane and profound solution for this problem leads us to find inspiration in one of the most elegant concepts of modern partial physics – supersymmetry.
It explains conjectured relationship between two basic classes of elementary particles by showing how they can bound together into superpartners, evolve into each other, and split backward to their cores.
As substance can transform into the matter, our most tender and intimate living spaces can be transformed into perfect working areas by a glimpse of light.
The fixture is designed in a unique way, which allows to transform it from a general vertical source of soft diffused light to the specific horizontal source of concentrated functional light for work, creation, and close communication.
Thoroughly engineered construction with magnetic elements and bottom-centered wire bracing system enables to provide stable height level of the fixture for both horizontal and vertical configurations.
It helps to keep the lamp close to the table and maintain an equal illumination level on the table surface along with a comfortable face and body backlight.
Lighting fixture transformation is operated by a simple user’s move of splitting or joining together symmetrical parts of the lamp in order to reach the required illumination effect.
The kinetic effect provided by construction and encashed by magnetic elements provides deep tactile emotional rebound and experience the sense of interaction with high-end technology.
It helps to expand the perception of the lamp as an interior complement to the image of a solid hi-tech object.
The key designing challenge was developing the solution for stable height level of the lamp through several configurations, (comparing to the classic solution which would lead to height fluctuation of at least 450 mm), which provided the most efficient ergonomics and created no obstacles and limitations for light flow on the working surface.
The total height for any modification is from 550 to 1500 mm and the materials used are metal, LED, acryl, electric cable, magnetic retainers.
Project: Supersymmetry Pendant Lighting
Designers: Alexey Danilin, Nikita Morozov, Natalia Danilova, Karim Tabishchev, and Dmitry Cherednikov
Manufacturer: Maytoni
