Mykonos, Greece
Renovation 2019 – Completed
Dynamic lighting design with tuneable-white lighting applications linked to daylight and sunlight path. Based on Bluetooth protocol. Scene setting includes dimmable display lighting. The concept is based on a 3-dimensional spiral, where the pole of the spiral is the interior space while the helix is the daily cycle of natural light.
Awards
- Casambi Awards 2nd Prize 2019
- DARC Award 2020
Project credits
- Architects: SMK interiors
- Photos: Alvaro Valdecantos
- Lighting design team: Matina Magklara, Catia Milia-Argeiti
Project services
- Design: Concept to detailed design
- Implementation: Commissioning, Focusing, Programming
The lighting design aims to connect and balance the dynamic daytime conditions to the fixed lighting environment of the hotel’s interior and overcome the ‘cavernous feeling’ of the tunnel.
The intensity and colour tone of the artificial light constantly change according to the time of day and year. During daytime the cool CCT and high intensity of daylight are brought into the tunnel and gradually change to warmer tones and lower intensities moving toward the interior of the hotel.
The interior lighting of the hotel’s reception (the pole) remains at a constant 2700K CCT. The entrance of the tunnel (the helix) varies, starting from dawn with bluish tones, moving to neutral white shades to gradually become warmer and warmer into night-time, when the light imitates the candlelight effect in amber tones. The reverse transition then occurs to meet the dusk.
Meanwhile, the lighting in the retail display cases maintain a constant CCT of 3000K but vary in intensity according to the time of day, for optimum visual balance.