Dom-inos

Dom-ino as an architectural word was coined by Le Corbusier as a title for his Maison Dom-ino, a housing prototype that distilled the potential of a reinforced concrete frame and defined an approach that continues to be reflected in countless buildings that came after it. The Idea of a Dom-ino is to consider the core of a design problem, what it is, what makes it, and the irreducible relationships beneath its temporal adaptation. These dom-inos can then feed other projects, offering alternatives to more conventional approaches. While they are ends in themselves, they are jumping off points. Like dominos, they lead to each other.

Dom-ino Shade

This prototype shade is the result of a feedback loop between laser-cut cardboard and light, and suspends from a standard corded bulb socket. It is designed to maximize up and down light while screening the view of the bulb, perfect for lighting a table and faces without glare. The result is a fixture that looks solid by day, but disappears as it illuminates, visible only by a thin corona of light across the top and bottom. The fixture could be supplied economically as laser cut and numbered sheets, or fully assembled and finished. We would like to try gold leaf on one.