Embedded light, in the fabric

Embedded light, in the fabric

By Ruth Slavid

Embedded light offers great opportunities to designers to make surfaces that can change and adapt. This conversation, which looks at potentials and limitations, was chaired by Sander Cornelius Laudy of B01architectes. The participants were Bart Wigman of Gielissen (NL), Sarah Chiappi, from SMC (UK), Suzanne Wright of Thinkwell (US), Jonathan Groswasser of Y.A. Yashar Architects (Israel), and, Carlos Temprano from AECOM (Spain).

Suzanne Wright: Many of our projects have some element of embedded lighting. If we want someone to walk down a certain hall we will use lighting embedded in the carpet or in the walls. If we want to stop somebody, we use that as well, and we use it for wayfinding a lot, as well as to illuminate and add accents to the design.

Sarah Chiappi: What I think has been lovely about embedded lighting is it’s taken us into a diverse set of environments, whether that is creating a calm, interactive color environment for an autistic child in a home, or a reception area that has lots of TVs, lots of very dynamic, moving images.