AETHERIA

Architectural sculptural lighting

Status: Study v5.2
Year: 2026
Stack: Python · Blender · glTF
Disciplines: LightArchitecture

AETHERIA site: “Light becomes architecture.” over a close view of VORTEX. — Fig. 01AETHERIA’s home page. The home page at 390 px.

AETHERIA site on a phone. — Fig. 01AETHERIA’s home page. The home page at 390 px.

01 · Brief

Sculptural light fixtures are usually designed as renders and engineered later, and the two drift apart. AETHERIA keeps one controlled record per fixture. Drawings, 3D models, interchange files and the website are all generated from it.

suspended elements in VORTEX: 240
metres from canopy to lowest element: 4.8
revolutions per minute, nominal: 0.36
kelvin, CRI 92, from 14 adjustable heads: 3000

VORTEX

The first fixture is a 240-element suspended “butterfly vortex” that drops 4.8 metres from its canopy and turns slowly, about a third of a revolution a minute. It is meant for double-height rooms in homes, hotels and lobbies.

One source of truth

The fixture manifest and its controlled engineering files (STEP and DXF geometry, a 240-element composition schedule) are the product. HTML, glTF, IFC, GDTF and MVR are outputs. The presentation study is allowed to differ visually, but it can never go to manufacture without a new engineering release.

01Presentation viewer for clients
02Technical inspector for coordination, on compressed GLB
03Geometry QA in Python, modelling in Blender

Honest about limits

Browser lighting is labelled as conceptual. No value on screen claims to be tested lux or candela, and mass, drive and certification stay marked unknown until they are engineered.

VORTEX hanging in a double-height living room at dusk. — Fig. 02VORTEX in a double-height room, from the presentation viewer.

Status

Engineering revision 1.3.0, presentation study 5.2. VORTEX is a prototype and RFQ design, not yet released for construction.