Athens, Greece
Renovation 2021 – Completed
Lighting design for two connecting spaces. Artificial dynamic lighting with smart Bluetooth controls. The scheme includes localised interventions in two connecting spaces of “River West” mall. These spaces introduce the visitors to the mall’s new commercial identity. The design vocabulary for these targets on high visual impact, strong enough to create new experience spaces. The project concerns two bottle-neck areas that function as gateways linking the existing mall’s superstructure to the new outdoor extension “River West Open”, located in two levels.
Project credits
- Client: Noval Property Α.Ε.Ε.Α.P.
- Architects: Vikelas architects, concept design in collaboration with DNE architects
- Lighting design team: Matina Magklara, Melina Lasithiotaki
- Photos: Gavriil Papadiotis
Project services
- Design: Concept to detailed design
- Implementation: Commissioning, Focusing, Programming
The key lighting objective in the ground floor is to create a strong eye-catching visual stimulus that will attract the visitors from far and guide them to the new extension. Entering the new gateway, a large flat luminous ceiling links the interior to the exterior. The luminous ceiling composes of seven individual segments, each of whom is individually addressed with tuneable white light sources in order to assist the visitors’ visual adaptation. The system is based on Bluetooth technology and real-time clocks creating perpetually changing scenarios and festive lighting scenes.
In the superimposing first floor area, the bottle-neck width is much narrower and the connection to outdoor lighting conditions more filtered. Aim of the lighting scheme is to make an impact, to create an experience that stands out by itself, like a kaleidoscope. Luminous oblique frames combined with full-mirrored surfaces create an illusional effect, extremely strong and playful that extends the narrow boundaries to an endless possibilities space.