A high amount of marble from Venosta Valley is not used for its originated purpose and but back in small pieces into the mountain or used as gravel. To overcome these issue, I tried to integrate marble waste in different forms into my project.

Due to my research about Mies van der Rohe the play of light between materials got my attention.

My goal was to build a lamp that shows the imbalance between marble with purpose and the material with no purpose.

In the end I committed my project to a mixture made from marble dust up to 4mm, alginate, glycerin, and some pieces made out of rest material.

The outcome is a reduced lamp with three big white pieces as an eye catcher. There is the large foot, the smaller counterweight, and the translucent mix-material lampshade.

MEL90/10 remembers the people about the imbalance in the world, sometimes it starts with a small light.

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See the equilibrium

Lampshade made from marble dust, alginate and glycerin
100% biodegradable

equilibrium hinge with marble counterweight from rest pieces

marble foot from rest pieces