Mexico. The Mexican lighting company Tecnolite is responsible for delivering the Construlita Awards, a contest that reached its fifth consecutive year during the EXPO Lighting America.
The winners of the participating categories were:
Architectural lighting
Project: Sun Life Building
Category: ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING
Lighting design by: Conor Sampson and Alicia Dávila Monterrey
Country: Canada
City: Montreal
Architecture by: Richard Waite and Robert Findlay. The lighting project was commissioned to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the construction of the Sun Life building. Under the metaphor of rising from the sun, the lighting design sought to create the illusion of height and refine the architectural composition, resulting from three phases of construction of the building. From this point, the columns attached to the facades and all the vertical elements were accentuated directing the viewer's view towards the crowning of the last three levels with an ascending light bath.
Interior Lighting
Project: Interstellar
Category: INTERIOR LIGHTING
Lighting design by: Almazán and associated architects + Concept Architecture Workshop + Pin Studio
Photographer: Jaime Navarro
Country: Mexico
City: Mexico City
Collaborators And Architecture by: Almazán and associated architects + Concept Architecture Workshop + Pin Studio.
Based on the film "Interstellar" the proposal is inspired by developing a space where the diner enjoyed an experience outside this world. The main objective was to turn emptiness into content, intertwining time and space with the aim of creating a visually spectacular and abstract environment. The contrast is the mirror tables that allow the diner to feel reflected in "the starry sky".
Large Surfaces
Project: LIGHTING DESIGN OF THE INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE LEÓN I-2
Category: LARGE SURFACES
Lighting design by: José Manuel González Palma.
Video credits: José Manuel González Palma (own source)
Country: Mexico
City: Mérida Yucatán
Collaborators: Arq. Diana Argaez
Architecture by: Arq. Daniel Pastrana Espinosa
Leoni, German company world manufacturer of harnesses for automobiles (BMW, Mercedes). He installed his 2nd. production plant in Mérida Yuc; the project had several areas and different levels of illuminance at leoni's strict request and complied with NOM-025-STPS-2008 and NOM-013-ENER-2013, TCC 5000°K, CRI 80.
Landscaping
Project: The Mirror of the Moon
Category: LANDSCAPING
Lighting Design by: 1st. DIA - Architectural Lighting Design
Photographer: Miguel Angel V. Calanchini
Country: Mexico
City: Querétaro
The concept is to create an intimate mirror, a dressing table for the moon. We care about seeing the moon at night, but what about a beautiful setting for the moon to reflect itself? An outside area that demanded a proportional response to the night scene. A haven of peace. Reflection or reflection phenomenon is a fragile event that requires the right amount of contrast between the reflected image and the environment for the observer to appreciate both in a subtle image.
Product Design
Project: SOS lite
Category: PRODUCT DESIGN
Lighting design by: Diana Beatriz Cisneros Martínez
Video credits: Diana Beatriz Cisneros Martínez
Photographer: Diana Beatriz Cisneros Martínez
Country: Mexico
City: Mexico
Collaborators: Alejandra Contreras Medina
SOS lite, is an autonomous luminaire that is used in case of emergency, uses for its ignition the energy accumulated in its batteries when the voltage falls below 70% of the nominal value. It is composed of a cylindrical body of 6 cms. in diameter which makes an ergonomic luminaire of easy portability. It has a gas sensor integrated into the body of the luminaire, which sends a signal to the programmed arduino and when detecting smoke particles will make the temperature change, cold light 4000K in normal conditions and amber light in smoke conditions.
Light art
Project: Chimes
Category: LIGHT-ART
Lighting design by: Sergio Sebastián
Photographer: Sebastián Arquitectos / Gabriel López
Country: Spain
City: Madrid
Collaborators: Iván Martín, Pablo Sebastián, Ximenez
Architecture by: SEBASTIAN ARQUITECTOS
For Christmas 2017 on Calle Preciados, Sergio Sebastián has designed a large urban clock that rings to the sound of the chimes of the mythical Sundial. As a tribute to the century and a half that this symbol of our country fulfills, at the change of time the entire installation will collect its echo, amplifying it in the form of beats of light along the entire Preciados street.
Conceptual
Project: LIGHT follows function!
Category: CONCEPTUAL
Lighting design by: Rodrigo Llavayol
Country: Denmark
City: Copenhagen
The proposal consists of intervening in a sector of the Superkilen park (Copenhagen), creating a versatile, organic light installation, capable of adapting to different activities. To achieve this, a playful space will be generated, where the user feels part of the space and the design of the square, since through light they can configure different spaces. It is proposed the creation of a suspended elastic mesh on which rest a large number of spherical luminaires, made of polycarbonate that will move on it.
