Studio Greenan

Studio Bram Greenen: Light Room Project

The Light Room project is a concept for the production of extremely light weight but strong pieces of furniture without losing any beauty in the designs result. The argument for a light weight product is that by stripping down a piece to its lightest value, is that energy consumption in its creation is lowered transport costs are also reduced and also the minimization of materials use gives a better rate of consumption and over all material use. The entire collection is currently in a prototype stage though the studio desires to make the furniture available as a product. The weight of all the products in the Light room collectively comes to around 7.5 kg which is astonishing considering that there primary function is usability.

Normally I would treat this with skepticism, though having researched the design process and materials used, I have no doubt that these pieces will be as strong and durable as they are aesthetically pleasing.

The chair and stool are the main stead of the studios design focus having worked on the stool since 2009 and the released the concept for the chair shortly after. They are titled the Gaudi Chair and Gaudi stool, in acknowledgement of Antonio Gaudí who’s hanging chain technique (combined with some computer wizardry) was used to get the structure in the two pieces.

In the light room we see the same a Dyneema version of the Gaudi Stool and the SLS Chair which is a variation on the Gaudi chair I think.

SLS Chair

Gaudi Stool

In addition to these pieces we can also see the development of three new pieces the Dyneema Chair:

Completely made from one material; Dyneema. Dyneema has the highest strength to weight ration of any manmade material in the world and is ideal for this kind of construction. Made from three variation of the material so that those parts that need to be malleable are, those that have to be ridged, remain that way.

Tensile Table:

Made from Silk and a Kevlar honeycomb.

And Gridshelf:

Made from Dyneema tensional cable, Aluminum and Glassfiber. The use of the diagonally crossed cables allows for the weight to be kept low as the system counteracts any deformation.