Immersive Phyllotaxis

Programme

Studio research

Year

2026

Status

Concept and prototype design

A sculptural light instrument for rest and breathing: a deployable parabolic canopy that fills the visual field with points of light arranged like the seeds of a sunflower, and animated to guide the breath in sessions of 10 to 20 minutes.

Fibonacci spirals in light

Micro-LEDs are placed by a phyllotaxis algorithm, each point turned by the golden angle from the one before. The field is even and organic, with no grid to catch the eye, and its sequences — slow spirals, pulses, waves — can follow the breath or a piece of music.

A dome to lie under

Laser-cut petals act at once as structural ribs and as carriers for dense LED constellations; deployed, they form a luminous dome over the body. At room scale it becomes an immersive installation where people lie down beneath the field.

• Studio Incandescence research — see also the Phyllotaxis Lamp edition