The 'Aula Ottagona' is part of the great thermal system commissioned by Diocletian in the 3rd century AD. With an octagonal floor plan, it is surmounted by an imposing dome (23 meters in diameter), while its glass floor reveals the historical stratification. The new project retained the existing electrical wiring and involved the lighting of both the Aula and any exhibitions through the use of projectors.
Client:
Piero Castiglioni
Collaborations:
Astrapto Light Designers
iGuzzini Lighting
Photo courtesy:
Alessandro Grassia Architect
Year:
2010
The 'Aula Ottagona' is part of the great thermal system commissioned by Diocletian in the 3rd century AD. With an octagonal floor plan, it is surmounted by an imposing dome (23 meters in diameter), while its glass floor reveals the historical stratification. The new project retained the existing electrical wiring and involved the lighting of both the Aula and any exhibitions through the use of projectors.
Client:
Piero Castiglioni
Collaborations:
Astrapto Light Designers
iGuzzini Lighting
Photo courtesy:
Alessandro Grassia Architect
Year:
2010
Other Projects
Other Projects
This section brings together a representative selection of lighting design projects in the architectural, museum, urban, cultural, retail, hospitality, and infrastructure sectors, both in Italy and abroad. The gallery documents projects of varying scale, function, and context, all sharing an approach to light as a tool for interpreting space, capable of engaging with architecture, artworks, landscape, and contemporary use.
The projects presented range from museums, foundations, and temporary exhibitions to historic buildings, places of worship, public spaces, and urban complexes, including corporate headquarters, private residences, yachts, and lighting masterplans. In each project, light is designed as a controlled material, calibrated to the characteristics of the location, its functional needs, and the perceptual quality of the experience.
Taken together, the collected works convey a vision of lighting design as an integrated process, in which technical rigor, cultural sensitivity, and attention to context contribute to the construction of spatial identity, orientation, and value. The gallery thus takes the form of a design map, capable of demonstrating how light can take on different roles—discrete or declared—while always maintaining coherence, measure, and design awareness.
This section brings together a representative selection of lighting design projects in the architectural, museum, urban, cultural, retail, hospitality, and infrastructure sectors, both in Italy and abroad. The gallery documents projects of varying scale, function, and context, all sharing an approach to light as a tool for interpreting space, capable of engaging with architecture, artworks, landscape, and contemporary use.
The projects presented range from museums, foundations, and temporary exhibitions to historic buildings, places of worship, public spaces, and urban complexes, including corporate headquarters, private residences, yachts, and lighting masterplans. In each project, light is designed as a controlled material, calibrated to the characteristics of the location, its functional needs, and the perceptual quality of the experience.
Taken together, the collected works convey a vision of lighting design as an integrated process, in which technical rigor, cultural sensitivity, and attention to context contribute to the construction of spatial identity, orientation, and value. The gallery thus takes the form of a design map, capable of demonstrating how light can take on different roles—discrete or declared—while always maintaining coherence, measure, and design awareness.
