Lighting Design
The craft of designing light to shape atmosphere, function, and experience in built environments.
Balloon Carnival: A Pop-Up Installation That Lures City Dwellers Away From Their Screens
Inspired by a classic French short film, this ephemeral urban intervention turns sidewalks into stages of interaction and play.
Garage Renaissance: Turning Moscow's Soviet-Era Garage Cooperatives into Urban Ecosystems
A winning Beacon 2019 entry reimagines a decaying Moscow garage cooperative as a modular network of workshops, gardens, and public spaces.
Comfort Hub: Hexagonal Modules That Breathe Life into Guangzhou's Humid Urban Villages
A climate-responsive modular system uses humid air recycling and honeycomb geometry to transform neglected alleys into social micro-hubs.
ARQUITECTURA-G and Sam Chermayeff Office Turn Steel Plates into a Paper Model for FLOS Amsterdam
A 400-square-meter showroom on Amsterdam's waterfront folds welded steel into a luminous stage for one of lighting's most storied brands.
Uncertain Memory: A Pavilion That Rewires Itself Around the People Inside It
At the B.I.G. Carnival, translucent corrugated panels and motion-reactive filament lighting turn a simple rectangular volume into a living organism.
Tropos: An Airborne Architecture That Refuses to Land
A swarm-intelligence prototype reimagines urban space as a dynamic, autonomous, and perpetually shifting atmospheric system.
LIT!: Turning Bryant Park's Dark Spots into Nighttime Playgrounds
A pulley-driven pavilion of illuminated balloons and swing seats transforms after-dark public space in Manhattan's Bryant Park.
Untitled Journal
A wave-inspired hanging light with translucent, cascading forms that diffuse dynamic LED gradients, creating a fluid, oceanic ambiance.
Lightwell District: A Tri-Lobed Bridge That Turns Infrastructure Into Urban Spectacle
Three luminous ribs arc over a waterway, merging pedestrian circulation with programmable light to anchor a new kind of public space.
Luminary Tide: A Timber Canopy That Pulses with the Rhythm of the Harbor
Joel Colunga's beacon competition entry weaves a gridded timber roof into the waterfront, turning tidal light into architecture.
Twilight Crossing: A Pedestrian Bridge That Performs with Light and Water
Angel Gamboa's tensile cable bridge transforms a lakeside crossing into a choreographed sequence of color, reflection, and framed views at dusk.
