Sarah Chiappi: The driving message from architects and interior designers is that they want very clean spaces, they want to remove as many objects that are on the wall as possible, and with embedded lighting we have an opportunity to do that. It’s starting to become part of the fabric of the building. It’s all about designing it in from the outset. You can only achieve these beautiful finishes if you’ve planned for them; there’s an awful lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to have these beautiful clean lines at the end. Sander Cornelius Laudy: What would you like to see in five years’ time? Bart Wigman: In the near future no doubt my hotel room will recognize me, the door will open for me, it’ll put on the light which I’d like to have at that momento. You can imagine lots of those things. The interesting thing and the fun part is we just don’t know.
42 EMBEDDED LIGHT DISCUSSION
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Bart Wigman
Suzanne Wright
Jonathan Groswasser: Recently we’ve done the BMW showroom. That’s a building that’s viewed mostly from the freeway, and it’s a stacked floor showroom so cars might be as high as 20 meters above the freeway. In the evening the ceilings shine out and create whatever people see on the streets. So this was a breakthrough project for embedded lighting, we just converted all the ceilings into a light. We’ve been talking for many years now, about the Internet of Things so I think light would be incorporated into the Internet of Things and people would then have different habits, they would be able to have devices that talk back to them, according to the preferences that they have. Carlos Temprano: There will be an Internet of lights or at least an Internet of spaces, where you can communicate to a public place or maybe a room, you can configure your preferences and maybe this will also be a self-learning space, learning from you. Our relationships with spaces will evolve. Sarah Chiappi: As an installer of the technology, we like the fact that it is so flexible. The architects and interior architects and designers that we work with love the ability to change luminous textiles depending on the time of day or time of year. They might have more active content on a panel in the morning, whereas you might have a sunset when it’s home time, some cool refreshing content if it’s hot outside...
