Lumetron
Lumetron
Technology, Fabrication, Light
Technology, Fabrication, Light
Technology, Fabrication, Light


INDEX
INDEX
Technology, Fabrication, Light
Technology, Fabrication, Light
Category
Category
R&D
R&D
Year
Year
2024
2024
I've always been drawn to the invisible forces that shape our world. Magnetism, in particular, felt like something that needed translating—not into data points or graphs, but into an experience you could actually witness unfolding in real time. The project started with a fascination for 19th century variometers—those elegant instruments that measured geomagnetic variation through mechanical means. I wanted to take that same principle but push it somewhere different. Instead of needles on dials, what if the readout was light itself? What if we could watch magnetic fields move?
I've always been drawn to the invisible forces that shape our world. Magnetism, in particular, felt like something that needed translating—not into data points or graphs, but into an experience you could actually witness unfolding in real time. The project started with a fascination for 19th century variometers—those elegant instruments that measured geomagnetic variation through mechanical means. I wanted to take that same principle but push it somewhere different. Instead of needles on dials, what if the readout was light itself? What if we could watch magnetic fields move?



Rather than capture data, it encodes field strength as deflected light. Magnetism becomes motion, motion becomes form, and form becomes signal.
Rather than capture data, it encodes field strength as deflected light. Magnetism becomes motion, motion becomes form, and form becomes signal.



By rendering the invisible as oscillating illumination, the device proposes a new kind of measurement shaped by interference, diffraction, and delay.
By rendering the invisible as oscillating illumination, the device proposes a new kind of measurement shaped by interference, diffraction, and delay.






LINKS
Full technical study research report can be found here: The Geomagnetician's House - Synthesising Terrestrial Architecture
Credits
Noah Jenkins
Creative Director
Isabella Brooks
Designer
James Hughes
Motion Designer
Maria White
Copywriter
Links
Full technical study research report can be found here: The Geomagnetician's House - Synthesising Terrestrial Architecture

