The former Chiattone building complex overlooking Via Elvezia and Via Pestalozzi has been refurbished and its spaces repurposed. The historic façade, initially devoid of illumination, has been emphasized, with light that sculpts the volumes and allows the architectural details to be rediscovered. The lighting project used two types of lighting devices with different lenses for different tasks. For the balconies and windows, small LED devices with blade lenses and integrated power supplies were placed on the window sills, allowing backlighting of the balconies and even lighting of the lintels. For the displays and entrances on the ground floor, small linear LED devices, with integrated lenses and power supplies were installed in the intradoses, ensuring suitable illuminance values for the various visual tasks.
Client:
Piero Castiglioni
Collaborations:
Ferruccio Robbiani Architect
Render Courtesy:
Marco Petrucci
Year:
2013
The former Chiattone building complex overlooking Via Elvezia and Via Pestalozzi has been refurbished and its spaces repurposed. The historic façade, initially devoid of illumination, has been emphasized, with light that sculpts the volumes and allows the architectural details to be rediscovered. The lighting project used two types of lighting devices with different lenses for different tasks. For the balconies and windows, small LED devices with blade lenses and integrated power supplies were placed on the window sills, allowing backlighting of the balconies and even lighting of the lintels. For the displays and entrances on the ground floor, small linear LED devices, with integrated lenses and power supplies were installed in the intradoses, ensuring suitable illuminance values for the various visual tasks.
Client:
Piero Castiglioni
Collaborations:
Ferruccio Robbiani Architect
Render Courtesy:
Marco Petrucci
Year:
2013
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.
