Created with cut paper pieces, placed over a lightbulb.
This paper lamp takes the form of a fish, something familiar and almost nostalgic, and reinterprets it through a modular, IKEA-inspired geometric language. Built from overlapping sheets of paper, the structure creates subtle shifts in value and opacity, allowing light to escape in controlled seams. The result balances whimsy with restraint, where it is meant to be playful in silhouette but precise in construction.
Yale ARCH1000, Introduction to Architecture, Professors Trattie Davies and Alexander Purves