Abstract. Caustics are captivating light patterns created by materials bundling or diverting light by refraction... read more
Fresnelia
The importance of AugustinFresnel ‘s contribution to the wave light theory has certainly been a bit shaded by his... read more
Deck prism
The association of word Deck + Prism is self-explanatory. One can easily imagine a prism going through a boat wooden deck to... read more
Luxfer and co
As we saw in a previous post, the introduction of prism to redirect explicitly the sunlight into a basement was the big move... read more
Vault Light
In the post “Deck + Prism”, we scratched the surface of a subject also referred to as “Vault light”that requires... read more
Predicting Transparency
The Article below was presented at Glasstec 2014. It is co-written with Etienne Sandre Chardonnal, founder of Eclat Digital... read more
Capiton 3: Eddies
Phase 3 of the Capiton research was geared toward fabrication. Our goal was to make at least some samples and even better an... read more
Capiton 2
Capiton 2 is the continuation of the work started in Capiton 1. With Minh Man Nguyen assisted by Ludovic Haensen, we decided... read more
Capiton 1
A quick survey of realized “formed glass” projects shows a wide range of scale of deformation. Depending of the... read more
Shading/Light Model
This post is a follow up of the post Shading and Light grid, presenting the fabrication of model of the light grid system.... read more
Lighting grid
Shading in buildings has become an unavoidable topic. On one side, light is needed and looked for and buildings tend to be... read more
Dropping smoothness
This post is a summary of a paper written with Mathieu Huard and Micheal Eigensatz from Evolute presented at AAG 2014 at UCL... read more