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Lumiville heritage trophyAll the public light-ups in France are selected via open-call competitions. Young designers having recently become independent must meet with the same bewilderment when they look such application guidelines, so densely laden with strict conditions and judgment criteria. “How am I going to get work without noteworthy works or name recognition?” The only way to succeed is to earnestly work out an idea to win a competition.
The old city of Tours in France is a beautiful medieval town located alongside the river Loire. The competition, which was to light up a cloister (now publicly open as a monument and used for art exhibitions and concerts) attached to a cathedral in the city’s center, did have strict conditions, such as restrictive budget and construction time that the lighting design proposal had to conform with, but we decided to participate because we had been touched by the cloister’s beauty. Onsite, we envisioned, “How was this place used at nights at the time of construction?” and proposed a design that brought out the characteristics of the contrast of the moonlit facade with the warm light of the corridor in which one could feel the breath of the monks holding candles strolling around and (perhaps) reading the religious books. It was highly evaluated for its pure symbolism and eco design due to the stripped-down nature of the design, and it became my own first competition win. It is a deeply memorable work, for which we even received the first-prize award from the French association of lighting designers.
Client
: Ministère de la Culture
Collaboration
: Carole Ferreri
Dates
: 2007-2008
Construction Cost
: 42 K€
Surface
: 3 000 m2
Missions
:
Monument lighting design
Heritage lighting design
