After the tragic Beirut Port blast in August 2020, many cultural and heritage spaces were destroyed. The explosion tore apart a vibrant cultural scene crowned by the 1912 mansion that houses the Sursock Museum, Lebanon’s most notable Contemporary Art Museum, and its public programs.  We were supposed to exhibit in the museum a few days after the blast. 

Post Industrial Crafts produced a special edition of the Tripod Lamp to support the Sursock Museum with its reconstruction efforts to be restored to its original state. The limited-edition Sursock Museum Tripod Lamp inherits its deep blue color from a mine of locally recycled water-gallons, building on centuries of tradition as a tribute to the splendor of blue glasswork in Arabic craftsmanship. 

The Tripod Lamps are an extremely simple, and iconic, assembly of three legs, one handle, and one shading cone. They are ground and table lighting additions, which can be transported along with their handle and fit anywhere on their three legs. The shading cone direct and filters the light. 
Using our 5D printing process, the Tripod Lamps are entirely made with local recycled polycarbonate, processed by our large-scale robot arm Hayete, (meaning “My Life” in Arabic). The robot arm moves our large industrial screw extruder in space, laying a line of molten local recycled plastic along a parametrically set path. Once the molten recycled plastic is deposited in space, it immediately starts self-setting as its temperature decreases.  

For easy recycling, the four mono-block, mono-material pieces, are assembled with only two large screws. For an extensive range of use, the lamps are easily transportable by their ergonomic handle.  The lamps are colored using our home-brewed mix of pigments to give them a range of finishes, be it shimmering, translucent, completely transparent to even opaque. These lamps are designed as versatile companions to create a fine-tuned ambiance at home.