Your best solution to date?
New Acropolis Museum in Athens – a museum of daylight.
Why is it significant?
Creative yet thoughtful and effective use of daylight throughout the museum allows the lighting energy consumptions be offset and deferred till dusk falls. This makes the night time transformation even more meaningful and distinct - a key to achieving the sustainability goals and agendas of the designers beyond simply scrambling to save energy.
Your particular skill?
Lighting. The amalgamation of science and engineering technology with artistic expression to form a Total Design solution.
Enthusiasm?
The key to our success lies in our ability to collaborate and engage well with our clients, architects and colleagues, arriving at a good integrated solution through creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.
Why Arup?
Our creativity and collegiality.