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Hospitality
L&L Luce&Light
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L&L Luce&Light
The Editory Riverside Santa Apolónia Hotel
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Application
Facades
Project
Saraiva+Associados
Light planning
Astratec
The five-star Editory Riverside Hotel is housed in the Santa Apolónia
station, one of Lisbon’s most emblematic buildings. The station is
Portugal’s oldest railway terminal and still sees countless travellers
passing through it every day.
In giving it a new lease of life in the hospitality sector, the architectural
practice of Saraiva+Associados developed the concept starting
from the idea of this place as the outward and return point of a train
journey. The interior design and the furnishings call to mind tales of
departures, goodbyes, migrations, adventures, homecomings and
new beginnings.The architectural project took care to preserve the
characteristic features of this Neoclassical building, built in 1865.
These features include the clean lines of the facade, now an iron
oxide colour that contrasts with and emphasises the stone details.
The facade lighting, designed by Astratec lighting consultants, uses
a two-part lighting scheme to underline its architectural shapes
simply and elegantly. The first marks the vertical lines of the angular
ashlar work with Intono 2.1 wall-mounted fixtures with 11° optics. The
same narrow beam is used in the Spot 1.0 projectors on the sides
of the tall windows that open onto the balconies on the first floor.
The second part of the scheme uses the semicircular light of Lyss
projectors to outline the internal profiles of both the entrance arches
at the corner of the building and the windows on the first floor. The
latter are lit by the compact version Lyss Mini 1.0, tucked away out
of sight in the corners of the sills. Finally, Spot 1.0 projectors pick
out the inner perimeters of the two gables housing the large clocks.
Intono 2.1
power: 6W
optics: 11°
colour temp.: 3000K
finish: white
Lyss 1.0
power: 7W
optics: satin 20°x180°
colour temp.: 2700K
finish: grey
