One Excellence Phase II Munus Illuminationis Frontis Architectonicae by Yanchih Wang

One Excellence Phase II Munus Illuminationis Frontis Architectonicae by Yanchih Wang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum in Designatio Luminarium Competition Category.

AesLuminaria· 2020

One Excellence Phase II Munus Illuminationis Frontis Architectonicae

by Yanchih Wang

Client: GD Lighting Design

Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum Winner in Luminaria Category

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The Design

About One Excellence Phase II Munus Illuminationis Frontis Architectonicae

Una Excellentia Phasis II est designatio illuminationis frontis architectonicae pro ingenti complexu commerciali in urbe Shenzhen, Sinis. Aedificium fere trecentos metros altum est et parietibus vitreis cortinalibus tegitur. Lux simplex alba electa est ut structura turris extolleretur. Lampades ad mensuram factae in pariete cortinali occultatae et immersae sunt ut directio lucis gubernaretur. Lux verticalis et intertexta rationem lucis et umbrae, quam sol interdiu efficit, recreat. Effectus aedificio speciem nocturnam tranquillam et rhythmicam praebet.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Aeneum

One Excellence Phase II Munus Illuminationis Frontis Architectonicae victor est Praemii A' Design Award Aeneum, honoris multum aestimati formis egregiis, creandi ingenio, sollertia et acumine insignibus dati. Victores Aenei opera perita et mire creandi sunt, quae experientiam, imaginationem et solertiam auctorum suorum confirmant. Exspectatur One Excellence Phase II Munus Illuminationis Frontis Architectonicae rem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, notabiliter professionalem et novam fore. Haec forma Aeneo victa optimas consuetudines artis, scientiae, formandi rationis et technologiae amplectitur et in cura minutiarum excellit. One Excellence Phase II Munus Illuminationis Frontis Architectonicae necessitates egregie explet, cupiditates tangit, sensus capit et curiositatem allicit.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The GD team believe that the concise and pure white light could better emphasize building structural characteristics. On facade, the light and shade parts were clear distinguished by the lighting which were hid and embedded into the curtain wall. Customized luminaires were designed to control the way light had cast, showing a picture of an lively, breathing urban building with great vitality.
Dimensions & Packaging: The high of the building is about 300 meters while the area is about 450 million square meters.
Tags: Lighting Design, Large Commercial Complex, Architecture Lighting, Light and Shade, Rhythm and Organic Vitality
Production Technology: Because it is a office building, simple white light was preferred not only because it better showed building peculiar construction structure but also reproduced the light and shade that natural sunlight cast on facade in daytime. Through unique textures and features of light and shadow the sunlight had left, we customized a variety of luminaires, placing them inside the curtain wall in order to stress a sense of rhythmic breathing as well as vitality of One Excellence (Phase II).
Design Challenge: A large area of glass curtain walls are vertically interlaced with each other, reflecting a rhythmic sense of movement. In lighting design style, embedded light was hidden in curtain wall with customized lamps controlling whole lighting system so to achieve a simplicity also a graceful, vertical linearity with movement just like breathing.
Research: Night scene is a continuation of daytime life. Architecture lighting reappear the natural sunlight on building facade. One Excellence (Phase II) embedded white light that did not represent any meaning in curtain wall for it not only highlighted the unique architectural characteristics but also truly restored the beauty of light and shadow shaped under sun, endowing a natural and dynamic vitality to this building .
Inspiration: Architectures are organic and alive when everyday people get inside the buildings. Interaction between architectures and people generate energy that will create a better life and future for people. This lighting design hope to awaken vital and energetic inner spirit hid inside building through restoring the rhythmic shift of light and shade on the facade.
Project Duration: Completion time is October 2019 in Qianhai, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.
Operation Flow: GD (GD Lighting Design) had used concise lighting design to show rational beauty of and stressed a special view of whole building. Vertical and interlaced light on facade, building materials glinted in dark sky which seemed to its inner vitality. During engineering process, the team directly put lamps on curtain wall to test lighting effect so to ensure purchasing brand of the lamps. Every parts of the project tested and checked by means of stage partition which could make sure that in case any serious problems and unrecoverable engineering defects.
Team Members: Investor: Excellence Group
Architectural Design: TFP Farrells
Curtain Wall Design: Shenzhen Grandland Fangte Tech-construction Group Co.,Ltd
Lighting Design: GD Lighting Design
Chief Lighting Designer: Yanchih Wang
Lighting Design Team Member: Hui Ren, Weiliang Kong
Image Credits: Image #1: photographer LyisoStudio-Rex, Shenzhen, 2019.
Image #2: photographer LyisoStudio-Rex, Shenzhen, 2019.
Image #3: photographer LyisoStudio-Rex, Shenzhen, 2019.
Image #4: photographer LyisoStudio-Rex, Shenzhen, 2019.
Image #5: photographer LyisoStudio-Rex, Shenzhen, 2019.