HOPEPRISCA SOYOUNG BAELIGHTING CONCEPT PROJECTCSULB SPRING 12

About 5% of elderly people su�er from depression. The rate increases signi�cantly for those who have other chronic health problems, especially medical conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, and cancer that interfere with functional abilities. Depression also occurs in some elderly people

who require home healthcare or hospitalization.

Depression a�ects 121 million people worldwide.

In can a�ect a person's ability to work, form

relationships, and destroy their quality

of life. At its most severe depression

can lead to suicide.

One way to defeat the depression is to get out-side and get some lights. Exposure to bright sunlight for 30 minutes a

day either through sunlight or a light made for this helps keep your internal clock set. This

circadian rhythm helps to regulate our sleep.wake cycle and insures a good

night sleep which helps our physical and mental

health.

LIGHT INSPIRATION

LIGHT INSPIRATION

CALMSUBTLETREE LIGHT RAYS

Found an article about the effects of light therapy on depressed elders.

Light can affect your productivity, mood, and mental activity.

Light boxes examples

Bed table examples

Bed TableUse it as a bed table since many old people have difficulty of walking or moving around.

Light Therapy BoxIt is designed to enhance the life environment even when not in use as a table. Once you turn the table over, it works as a light box which helps you to have enough lights for a day. By interacting with this, it enhances your mood to be more active.

ProjectorTo enhance its experience, it will project the image of nature while it is in use. It will project the image of nature on your bed sheet, floor, or on the wall to bring in the feeling of nature into your room.

Brings the nature into the room.By projecting the image of nature, it will enhace the mo-ment while you are with your companies. This will brings the feelings of nature into your room and make your mood more calm and peaceful.

Bedroom LampOnce you are done with the light therapy time, simply turn it on and set the time to turn it off automatically. It will fuction as a bedroom lamp to enhance the experience of staying in bed all day.

Form and structureBecause it is intended to be a bed table with the light box on the bottom, the form needs to be considered function-ality as well as aesthetics. Overall form kept simple yet elegant to emphaize the func-tionality and the patterns in the table.

EngineeringOnce you rotate the table upside down, the light will turn on and activate the therapy light.

ActivationThe way of turning on the light box was inspired from the observation of old people. “Staying Active” was the main idea of interacting of this product.

Materials and ProcessTo emphaize the feelings of nature, wood material is used as the main part of the product. It strenghtens the aspects of tree branches. All the other parts kept as simple yet organic shapes to be more natural and flowing overall. These parts will be in-jection molded with glossy white finishings.

Materials and ProcessThe frosted clear palstic will be placed on the top and bottom of the product to represent the lights more calm and subtle.

Mind MappingMind Mapping helped me to think various things that are related to the light.

Narrow it downAfter I did the mind mapping, I narrow it down to certain things about the light and concentrated on those by branching out the ideas.

Visited Council on Aging to observe elders. (March 23, 2012)

Observed elders to find out particu-lar movement or gestures that can be applied to the activation of devic-es, features, or objects.

“Staying Active” - Brings positive mind.

Started to brainstorming what are sick people need and that can possibly combine with the lighting therapy box.

Brainstorming

Concept 1. Wall decoration

Concept 2. Cane

Concept 3. Chair

Decided on the bed table where sick people need it the most of time while they are in the bed.

Concept 4. Bed table

Inspiration Reflection from the tree branches, Shadows of the trees in the forest

Tree branches panel

3 openings 4 openings

5 openings 6 openings

From the inspiration of tree branches shadow, I realized that there are various thicknesses which creates the depth on the ground. These panels represents its thicknesses and these layers will create interesting irregular patterns of the tree branches.

6 openings

With these four different wood panel, It created similar shape from the shadow of tree branches. It mimics the random-ness of branches as well as the thicknesses and depth of it.

Combination

Combination

Generating the form This is the picture of tree branches in black and white. I divided some sections based on similar thickness of it and color-ed the areas with different colors. This acitivity helped me to see the characteristics of the shape of tree brances.

Symetrical MethodFrom the shapes of each colored area, I applied the symetrical method to see if it creates interesting forms.

Dimensions

1st Mock up

2nd Mock up

3rd Mock up

Getting Materials

Getting Materials

Laser Cut

Catalyst Primer

Assembly

AssemblyFiguring out the lights

Testing out

Testing out