| PROJECT ID: | TETRA-2008-TKW |
| COLLABORATORS: | Asif Khan (Architect, b. 1980) & Peter Liversidge (Artist, b. 1973) |
| EXHIBITION DEPLOYMENT: | Tokyo Designers Week 2008 // "Container Ground" Exhibition Section |
| COMPETITION STATUS: | Winning Entry — Dezeen x Design Association Container Design Competition |
| JURY PANEL: | Design Association jury panel (Tokyo Designers Week 2008) |
| CHRONOLOGY: | Development Phase: January – October 2008 // Public Unveiling: Oct 30 – Nov 3, 2008 |
| DOCUMENTATION CREDITS: | Photographs by Marius W. Hansen & Luke Hayes |
The Tetra Light is a modular structural lighting installation developed over a ten-month period in London, UK. It investigates the intersection between sculptural form and spatial architecture through a configurable grid system. The historical record for the project is preserved across dual editorial indices, mapping both the modular design prototype and its subsequent architectural competition winning deployment.
Core technical composition includes:
For the Tokyo Designers Week presentation at Jingu-Gaien in central Tokyo, the system was deployed within a 20ft shipping container installation titled "20ft x 20 lights x 5 days". This spatial configuration was documented as the winning entry in the dedicated container exhibition category.
The container post chronicles how the installation established a controlled micro-environment of light and color architecture using 20 multi-colored prototype units arranged within a confined spatial volume. The structure intentionally contrasted the precision of the lighting matrix against the industrial parameters of the raw shipping container enclosure.
The design process emerged from interdisciplinary dialogue between adjacent creative practices, exploring how industrial components can be reconfigured into spatially expressive systems.