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Town Hall facade
The historic building that houses Nichelino’s town hall has undergone
restoration work and received a new lighting scheme, designed by
architect and lighting designer Simona Cosentino. The architect has
given the building the role of luminous backdrop to the Piazza G. Di
Vittorio, the square on which it stands.
The lighting design, approved by the Piedmont superintendency of
cultural heritage, creates a synthesis that both enhances some of the
building’s architectural elements and respects the equilibrium of the
facade as a whole.
To achieve this, two different types of lighting come into operation,
depending on the time of day. In the early evening, the architectural
lighting positioned on the facade lends three-dimensionality to
the building, elevating its details and materials. Then, as darkness
deepens, lighting installed at a distance from the building comes
into play, softening the shadows. The latter also creates coloured
lighting scenes, which the town council uses for special occasions.
The combination of the two lighting solutions balances two opposing
effects: on the one hand the dramatic chiaroscuro effects of the
grazing light, and, on the other, the tendency of projected light to
flatten details.
The architectural lighting on the facade uses Neva 2.1 and Neva
Mini 1 linear profiles, installed in two different ways: recessed for
the ground floor and on brackets for the first-floor cornice. Neva 2.1
fixtures, with 10°x40° elliptical optics, illuminate the windows, while
Neva Mini 1 fixtures, with 11° narrow optics, pick out the facade’s six
pilasters. Two more Neva 2.1 fixtures, with 45° optics, are installed
between the windows of the central balcony on the first floor. The
fixtures’ positions and beam angles have been carefully chosen so
that they illuminate both the building’s long upper cornice and the
facade’s individual projecting elements.
The lighting design for the facade is completed by two Lyss 1.0
projectors, with semicircular 20°x180° optics, which highlight the
internal profiles of the two side arches of the main entrance to the
town hall, and two Bright 2.4 uplights, with 13°x52° elliptical optics
and anti-glare screen, which mark its side entrance.
Location
Nichelino, Turin, Italy
Application
Facades
Light planning
Simona Cosentino
architetto lighting designer
Photography
Daniele Cortese
Lyss 1.0
power: 7W
optics: satin 20°x180°
colour temp.: 3000K
finish: white
Bright 2.4
power: 7W
optics: 13°x52°
colour temp.: 3000K
finish: stainless steel
anti-glare screen
