THE AURORA TABLE
Discover The Aurora Table, where the majestic mountain landscape meets the celestial sky, capturing the essence of nature’s grandeur in detail.
DESIGN: Coffee Table
PROJECT TYPE: Personal
MEDIUM: Walnut-Stained Poplar, Sheet Acrylic
DIMENSION: ~L43” x W20” x H16”
DATE:Fall 2022
The Aurora table is a coffee table for convenient support of sitting area objects. While functioning as a furniture piece, the Aurora table explores and visualizes the phenomena of light in spatial and material ways of thinking; in an experimental way, the defined phenomena of porosity and luminosity are presented by the furniture.
In the presence of architecture, architect Steven Holl once hypothesized his application of porosity and luminosity into the building skin in his design of
Sarphatistraat Offices in Amsterdam.
The use of porous metal sheet for wall shows the characteristic of porosity both in philosophical and physical ways, and it gives a veiling quality to the building skin that i can see out and you can see in. The luminosity of natural and artificial light hence steps in and become the fusion of the building and environment.The thinking of luminosity and porosity then become the inspiration of how a smaller scale object and its materiality can be designed with an architectural spatial sense.
The interpretation of luminosity and porosity, throughout experiments, had gradually evolved into the form of gapped and layered transparent acrylic, while each acrylic layer is bent partially.
LINEARITY AND MATERIALITY CREATE SPATIALITY
The Aurora table is initiated with the thinking towards the application of linearity and materiality to combine and create a spatial sensation. Linear visual in materiality, horizontal space, and form is combined with the lamination of vertical spatial visual(later the gapped layers) to express the porosity and luminosity.In production, pieces of poplar wood are CNC-cut and walnut-stained into the final form and color, while each acrylic sheet is clamped down from the edge and heated in the middle sectionally after laser cutting the whole shape. The acrylic and wood restrain each other to stand and function.
Flow,
the mountain of its sky, the ripple of its sea
Eventually, four gapped layers of acrylic are attached to three triangular wood legs. The light within the environment reflects and refracts onto the gapped and bent layers of acrylic, creating a light phenomena of aurora, aurora that we could see in unprecedented
ways and angles. In addition, different positions of standing result in countless light
visuals; the light moves as if shreds of aurora light.Notice how porosity is not only expressed by the gapped layers of acrylic sheet, but also the conrast of the solidness of wood legs; and the luminosity is not only reflected and refracted but also is a transmission of light and shadow by the acrylic and wood.