Lobby Lights

Designed & Built by David Trubridge

www.davidtrubridge.com

“Noel (Lane) originally asked me to look at doing a long light for the Glasshouse [situated at Brick Bay Vineyard]. I was taken with the idea of a misty cloud floating under the roof. It would be translucent, like a vapour. During the day you would hardly see it with the sun shining down through it. At night it would light up and become a glowing form reflected in the glass above.

Of course, I was also thinking of the long whit cloud of Aoteoroa.

At the time, I was working as a visiting professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, investigating how to develop complex flowing forms on the computer that can [then] be reasonably easily built. This is what came out of that.

I found a way to combine a computer three-dimensional drawing programme with my computer controlled (CNC) router to build these exciting forms which really have no limit in their possibility!

Initially we thought we thought we would need a steel frame along the top to support it, but were amazed to find that, once it was all assembled, it was remarkably rigid, even thought the plastic is only 1.2mm thick. All we needed were the three internal ‘hangers.’” David Trubridge