Tangent

Pendant Light for Trio Licht

Tangent offers remarkable flexibility, with patterns that adapt to the unique characteristics of each space. By adjusting the geometry to fit the spatial context, each lighting element enhances its environment both aesthetically and functionally. Tangent is also fully customizable, enabling users to create their own unique patterns. This feature ensures that every space benefits from a personalized lighting solution, perfectly aligning with individual preferences and requirements.

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Unique Properties

This innovative lighting system adapts seamlessly to its surroundings, with dynamic geometric patterns that enhance both aesthetics and functionality. Its fully customizable design allows users to create unique configurations, ensuring a tailored lighting solution for any space. By responding to spatial characteristics, it provides a harmonious blend of adaptability, personalization, and visual impact.

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Tangant, Lighting, Pendant, Architectural, Customizable, Modular

Production Technology

After determining the desired pattern based on the functionality and spatial needs of each project or user preferences, the extruded body profile undergoes the bending process. The LED light is then installed inside the profile. Following this, the top cap and diffuser are laser-cut and attached to the body. This process ensures that each component fits precisely, providing a seamless and efficient lighting solution tailored to the specific requirements of the space.

Design Challenge

The challenges of this process include creating unique patterns that are both functional and visually striking. Additionally, transforming two-dimensional patterns into large-scale lighting products posed its own difficulties. Finding the best solution for manufacturing these designs while maintaining their visual and functional integrity was a key challenge, ensuring that the final product would meet both aesthetic and technical requirements.

Project Duration

Conceived in July 2024, this innovative lighting concept was developed over six months in Vienna, Austria, by January 2025.

Operation Flow

This design interacts simultaneously with both the environment and the user. The pattern can either be directly designed by the user or created to suit a specific space. Additionally, this customization capability aligns with the functional needs of the space, enhancing its architectural synergy. By allowing users to personalize the design, the lighting solution fosters a dynamic relationship between the space, its purpose, and the people who inhabit it.

Research

In designing this product, we explored geometric principles and graphic patterns, ultimately drawing inspiration from the work of Swiss graphic designer Armin Hofmann. Using his principles, we developed a series of patterns specifically suited to our space. We analyzed the challenges of constructing patterns derived from the tangent connections of circles, which guided us through the detailed design and manufacturing process of the lighting fixtures. For the body profile, we optimized the design using aluminum extrusion, ensuring a perfect fit for the top aluminum cap, bottom diffuser, and adequate space for LED installation. After testing the models in various spaces with different architectural requirements, we found that this product not only interacts with its primary user but also serves as an essential element for designers and architects, contributing significantly to the identity of the space.

Inspiration

Inspired by Armin Hofmann’s geometric studies, our lighting design explores the connection between circles and their tangents. This approach enabled us to create adaptable patterns that respond to both the spatial context and the objects they illuminate. By refining these patterns for both form and function, we enhance the interplay of light and shadow, enriching the atmosphere while ensuring that the design is both aesthetically pleasing and functionally effective in the space.

Project Overview

Tangent Pendant Light has been a Bronze winner in the Lighting Products and Fixtures Design award category in the year 2024 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.

Image Credits

For design images and photos please credit Seyed Shahriyar Shahriyari.

Bronze Recognition

Seyed Shahriyar Shahriyari was recognized with the coveted Bronze A' Design Award in 2025, a testament to excellence of their work Tangent Pendant Light.

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