Erected in the sixteenth century at the edge of Castello a Mare in the centre of Palermo, it was then reopened to the public as an important cultural centre. The apparatus used in the project are of minimal encumbrance, with controlled optics, and are sometimes custom-made. They have been installed in the walls or floors and specially-oriented for diffused or spot lighting.
Client:
Piero Castiglioni
Collaborations:
Gae Aulenti Associati
Photo Courtesy:
Piero Castiglioni
Year:
2007 - 2012
Erected in the sixteenth century at the edge of Castello a Mare in the centre of Palermo, it was then reopened to the public as an important cultural centre. The apparatus used in the project are of minimal encumbrance, with controlled optics, and are sometimes custom-made. They have been installed in the walls or floors and specially-oriented for diffused or spot lighting.
Client:
Piero Castiglioni
Collaborations:
Gae Aulenti Associati
Photo Courtesy:
Piero Castiglioni
Year:
2007 - 2012
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.
