The Forum BuildingWithin the setting of the Barcelona international forum of cultures, architects Herzog and De Meuron, designed a triangular building, which is called the Forum Building. The building combine basic geometric shapes with breaks in perspective. The auditorium is linked to the convention centre by a wide corridor that the architects have imbued with an exceptional importance. For the lighting project carried out by Isometrix, an orange-coloured light was conceived that could wash the white of the inside with colour, increasing the contrast. The lighting system, with hexagonal shape, would offer an image of “broken light, like an ice-cube with shining, brilliant points of light inside it”. Based on this idea, Troll designed this hexagonal lighting system using the latest generation technologies, along with the play of diffusive materials in order to achieve the desired effect. Every one of the 800 luminaries incorporated three avant-garde lighting systems, controlled using a DALI protocol. |
