It seams like imbalance is everywhere, what makes us think about it?

MEL 90/10

Manfred Müller

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.

<p>Lampshade made from marble dust, alginate and glycerin. 100% biodegradable.</p><br />

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

A project made in the course

The White Marble Project.

The White Marble Project. During the winter semester 2022/23, we have been exploring the potential of white Lasa marble, which is a 400-million-year-old metamorphic stone from the Jennwand massif of the Vinschgau Nörderberg, located on the edge of the Stilfserjoch National Park. As one of the most valuable natural resources of South Tyrol, which is otherwise rather poor in mineral raw materials, white marble has been quarried in the Vinschgau Valley for centuries, especially in Laas and Göflan. It has been exported by the ton as building material and decorative stone all over the world and yet it only represents a limited deposit that will be exhausted within just a few generations.
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