In skilled hands, lighting becomes the fourth dimension of architecture, integrating and enhancing the other design disciplines. Arup Lighting provides a comprehensive architectural lighting design service to clients around the world.
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 well-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. Its specialists work with architects to understand how natural light is distributed in a building – how it reflects and diverts by different 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 Lighting 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 façade
With the potential to change how we perceive architecture and public space, media facades explore the synthesis of light and media. At the Galleria Fashion Mall in Seoul, South Korea, 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 colours and movements.
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 Lighting's award-winning team creates unique and creative answers to clients' particular business objectives.