Arup provides a comprehensive architectural lighting design service to clients around the world.
In skilled hands, lighting becomes the fourth dimension of architecture, integrating and enhancing other design disciplines.
Conceptual design, technical detail
Working closely with architects at all stages of a project, Arup's lighting specialists provide original and authentic conceptual design. Uniquely placed to turn vision into reality, they transform creative concepts into detailed technical specifications.
Arup worked with Louis Vuitton's architecture atelier to develop a fully integrated lighting concept that forms a seamless part of customer experience. After a number of highly successful trials, the lighting concept is now being rolled out to Louis Vuitton stores worldwide.
Natural lighting
Great lighting design also relies on using natural light effectively. Arup is a market leader in daylighting. The firm works with architects to understand how natural light is distributed in a building – how it is reflected and refracted through colours and materials. Together, they use this to enhance the building's performance and attractiveness.
As part of an expansion to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, USA, Arup designed a series of 1,000 'light scoop' skylights to light display areas naturally and without damaging sensitive artwork. State-of-the-art controls for the galleries and offices adjust to the level of daylight for maximum energy efficiency.
Media façades
With the potential to change how we perceive architecture and public space, media façades explore the synthesis of light and media. Arup's lighting designers work with their colleagues in façade engineering to design these stunning structures.
At the Galleria Fashion Mall in Seoul, a media facade wraps around the building to form a fluid, dynamic skin. Designed in collaboration with UNStudio, nearly 5,000 glass discs make up an ocean of colour and movement.
In a world first in west Beijing, Arup combined LED lighting with photovoltaic arrays in the GreenPix - Zero Energy Media Wall, creating a building façade that produces twice the energy it consumes.
Award-winning team
At Arup, lighting is an integral and important element of intelligent building design, as well as a specialism in its own right. Working from offices in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Japan, Australia and the US, Arup's award-winning team creates unique and creative answers to clients' business objectives.