Skip to content
Lucept by Koerner Design

Lucept

Future Trends in Architectural Experiences

  • about Brad Koerner
    • about Brad Koerner
    • portfolio
    • future envisioning videos
    • conferences, publications, etc.
    • book list
    • connect with me
  • the future of lighting series
    • six disruptive trends in architectural lighting
    • smart signage concept for retail shelving
    • virtual production and its impact on the real world?
    • hyper vignettes: localizing digital/physical experiences
    • 5 tips to prevent digital signage burnout
    • trends in digital media for athletic facilities
    • active objects, surfaces and zones
    • media-driven vs data-driven environments
    • next evolution of lighting
    • wrap your spaces in social media
    • embedded lighting series
    • the future of office design?
    • the DC powered building
    • koerner design wins US DOE sustainable luminaire design competition
  • innovation management
    • what’s the value of innovation management?
    • the 3 sins of innovation theater
    • the innovation attitude matrix
    • innovation management: marketing vs product marketing vs sales communications
    • elon musk’s 5 step R&D strategy
    • Business thinking for designers
    • being a good product manager = listening, synthesis, advocacy
    • mixtape for product management

Tag: parametric forms

Lighting Inspiration

danny ivan: 3D imagery maker

October 15, 2021 Brad Koerner

Some extraordinary beautiful and inspiring art by Danny Ivan, a Portuguese 3D visualization artist who has produced gorgeous graphics for numerous major tech companies. Oozing rich color blends, translucency, and wild curving forms, this art looks like something Zaha Hadid … Continue reading danny ivan: 3D imagery maker

Lighting Inspiration

kinetica living patterns – unreal engine

January 27, 2021 Brad Koerner

There is something about this video of a plugin for Unreal Engine that really inspires me, relating back to my work on embedded lighting and luminous patterns. The setup is beautiful and the motion is hypnotic… Continue reading kinetica living patterns – unreal engine

Creative Manufacturers

intra tracker

May 22, 2020 Brad Koerner

Check out this fascinating linear LED lighting product system from Intra Lighting. It’s called Tracker, but let’s just call this what it is: The Zaha solution. Intra has solved the fiendishly difficult challenge of creating a seamless line of light, … Continue reading intra tracker

Future LightingLeave a comment

what is your workflow for designing embedded lighting installations?

November 28, 2017 Brad Koerner

To echo a piece I just published on LinkedIn, I’m asking my network for what cool software tricks designers are using to accomplish embedded lighting installations. I’m doing a bit of research for my upcoming conference presentation at Strategies in … Continue reading what is your workflow for designing embedded lighting installations?

Creative Manufacturers

yingchuang

July 3, 2015July 3, 2015 Brad Koerner

Yingchuang (also named Winsun; I’m not sure the differentiation) is a Shanghai-based construction materials company that is showing some impressive advances in R+D with CNC production, including 3D-printed concrete construction. Yingchuang produces a range of products, including glass reinforced gypsum, special … Continue reading yingchuang

Cool Architects

rael san fratello + emerging objects

May 22, 2015May 21, 2015 Brad Koerner

I posted about them in 2013, but I’m so taken by their creative 3D printed materials and wild forms that I’m posting about them again:  Rael San Fratello is an Oakland based architecture studio led by the husband and wife … Continue reading rael san fratello + emerging objects

Cool Architects

denegrib bessai studio – custom ceiling

May 21, 2015May 22, 2015 Brad Koerner

Very interesting parametric-designed luminous ceiling installation at a private residence by Toronto firm Denegrib Bessai Studio. Continue reading denegrib bessai studio – custom ceiling

Cool Architects

zaha hadid – bee’ah headquarters

March 26, 2015 Brad Koerner

Via Dezeen.  Another beautiful and absolutely crazy project from Zaha Hadid, this time a headquarters for UAE-based waste disposal company Bee’ah.  Cool video highlights the major lighting effects in the project. Continue reading zaha hadid – bee’ah headquarters

Cool Architects

studio roland snooks

October 29, 2014 Brad Koerner

Studio Roland Snooks is a Melbourne-based architecture practice with some WILD parametric projects.  Amazing stuff, beautifully rendered.  These folks should be designing futuristic set pieces for Hollywood…this is a better view of the future then anything in the movies lately… Continue reading studio roland snooks

Future Lighting

electroland’s aurora project

October 10, 2014 Brad Koerner

An incredible media lighting system installation named “Aurora” by Electroland was realized using advanced parametric design, digital fabrication, and 47,000 RGB LED pixels from Philips Color Kinetics.  And wonderfully, Electroland presents numerous process photographs and an amazing video recorded from the design, … Continue reading electroland’s aurora project

Future Lighting

internships!

October 8, 2014 Brad Koerner

I’m looking for two good interns to work with my team at Philips Lighting this upcoming spring.  Please share this with any students or professors who might fit the bill. The first position is for a graphic design student who … Continue reading internships!

Cool Architects

casa puglia

August 21, 2014August 21, 2014 Brad Koerner

Casa in Puglia — a beautiful Italian house project in Arch Daily by architect Peter Pichler Architects that makes use of patterns generated by parametric techniques. “Casa in Puglia / Peter Pichler Architects” 20 Dec 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 21 Aug 2014. <http://www.archdaily.com/?p=97484&gt; Continue reading casa puglia

Cool Architects

y[our-s]ukkah

March 23, 2013 Brad Koerner

Wow!  What an image!  An incredible rendering found on a Behance.net project page by Jon Bailey. Continue reading y[our-s]ukkah

Cool Architects

paper chandeliers

March 23, 2013 Brad Koerner

Via Dezeen: An undulating canopy of cardboard tubes by American studio Cristina Parreño Architecture and students from MIT hovered over visitors at the ARCOMadrid art fair in Spain last month. Overall, it is a bit much for me, particularly at … Continue reading paper chandeliers

Cool Architects

cordoba contemporary art center

March 23, 2013March 23, 2013 Brad Koerner

Via Dezeen, an interesting contemporary art center project  by Madrid architects Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in Cordoba, Spain, with a beautiful illuminated facade. According to Dezeen: Hexagonal funnels stretch down from the roof to channel natural light into concentrated spaces. Meanwhile, tiny … Continue reading cordoba contemporary art center

Cool Architects

e/b office

December 31, 2012December 31, 2012 Brad Koerner

e/b office is the New York-based design collaboration of Yong Ju Lee and Brian Brush. They have some fantastic, cutting-edge parametric design projects, including a few with some very innovative lighting designs.  They also have an interesting blog with lots of … Continue reading e/b office

Cool Architects

parametric design sites

December 31, 2012 Brad Koerner

A nice, simple video to explain what how “parametric design” fundamentally works.  No narrative, just a simple example of adjusting parameters of a brick wall. And a couple links to interesting parametric modeling-focused sites: Rethinking Architecture Designreform Parametric Design Continue reading parametric design sites

Cool Architects

luminous limacon

December 20, 2012December 20, 2012 Brad Koerner

I came across this project from Andrew Saunders, a Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, that was a winner in a 2011 design competition organized by ACADIA.org.  Cool example parametric design; nice presentation board; and considering that I now … Continue reading luminous limacon

Cool Architects

24° studio – daphne

September 6, 2012 Brad Koerner

From 24° Studio, the same New York architects that created the beautiful “Hope Tree” installation I posted a couple years ago, another gorgeous temporary installation using paper modules with internal lighting called “Daphne“. This is a terrific example of what architectural lighting should … Continue reading 24° studio – daphne

Future Lighting

chrysalis project

November 28, 2011April 12, 2012 Brad Koerner

SolidSmack has an interesting article about the “Chrysalis Project” on Kickstarter, an effort by architect/programming experimenter Chris Chalmers.  To summarize the article, Chris is developing an export function from Rhino’s Grasshopper add-on, to allow designers to export parametric models — and their … Continue reading chrysalis project

Posts navigation

Older posts
Website Built with WordPress.com.
Lucept
Website Built with WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Lucept
    • Join 335 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Lucept
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...