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Materiality What's going down in 2019...
for example in the bathroom, which is Materiality is a reaction to the ubiquity of Industrial Lighting
quite a hard space to dress. We used soft technology and the fact that the images halo lighting around the mirrors and we see via technology are 2D and flat.
We have used a lot of indirect lighting
in the apartments at One Park Drive,
backlighting behind the trims that blend
seamlessly around the framework. By
hiding the lighting in this way, we are
directing the light onto the walls, so that
it reflects back into the space, rather than
beaming it down directly onto your face.
Architectural lighting, which means
lighting fixed to the interior surfaces such
as ceilings or walls, can be used to set the
overall scene. Track lighting set at around
2,000 Kelvins, for example, means you can
incorporate a number of multi-directional
lights that are still soft and atmospheric
in order to highlight certain sections of a
room or artworks, for example, as used at
One Park Drive.
The industrial light bulb is something we
have seen way too much of. Even though
To counter this, we use a combination of they have developed energy efficient LED
decorative and architectural lighting to versions, people are moving away from
paint a canvas with our interiors, helping the raw industrial look and refining it a lot
to not only light up a space, but highlight more. Consider elements of marble and
different textures, pieces of artwork real brass instead for light fittings.
and fabrics to create a layered and 3D
environment. Coloured Lighting
There are always design challenges in any When we first got access to coloured
project and coming up with a different lighting, people went a bit crazy with
language every time is a big part of that. it. Every kitchen unit and worktop was
The ribbed panelling used on the exterior lit, so our homes started to resemble
of One Park Drive was a really interesting giant spaceships. Coloured lighting
element for us to play on, for example. We works particularly well for signage and
honed in on this inside, creating timber wayfinding on commercial projects or as
panels and using lighting to really show a standalone art installation for example,
off those textures. but, on the whole, it has very little place in
the home. Sometimes less really is more!