MAD Architects has converted the vision of the large-scale Pingtan Art Museum into a dynamic small-scale lighting object for Italian lighting company Artemide. 

Called "Pingtan" Lamp, MAD presents the new lamp at Milan Design Week 2018, encompassing Salone del Mobile - a series of events are distributed across the city between May 17 and May 22, 2018. 

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The Pingtan Art Museum, one of MAD’s most iconic museum designs, represents a long-lasting earthscape in water: the sea, the beach, the oasis and the slope all interconnect with each other, forming a harmonious capacious space with the mountains in the distance. The lighting lamp, made of methacrylate and aluminium, completely reflects MAD's vision, as the studio's all buildings take shape in fluid form.

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MAD recalls the experience of natural elements that blend together, the abstract, organic design of the lamp has been rescaled down to a transparent shell whose curves have been modelled to create an illuminated landscape. 

Image © Federico Villa

"Pingtan" has been imagined to bring that same emotion and energy found in nature into the interior space. Coming alive with a slight and gradual glow, it creates a poetic ambiance within the indoor environment," said MAD in its project description.

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Project facts

Project name: "Pingtan" Lamp
Location: Milan, Italy
Architect: MAD, in collaboration with Artemide
Date: 2018

Time: 2018/4/17-22
Location: Corso Monforte, 19,  20122 Milano MI,  Italy
Design Team: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun, Yosuke Hayano, Andrea D’Antrassi, Casey Kell, Marco Gastoldi
Typology: Lighting
Material: methacrylate, aluminium
Dimensions: 90 cm*57.5 cm

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