LAVA (Laboratory For Visionary Architecture)

Philips Lighting Headquarters

Philips Lighting Headquarters

Lava - Laboratory For Visionary Architecture

Philips Lighting Headquarters

LOCATION
Eindhoven, Netherlands

TYPE
Commercial › Office Showroom

Philips Lighting Headquarters

LAVA’s design for the new Philips Lighting Headquarters features an experiential welcome in the atrium and office spaces that foster creativity.

Visitors are greeted by a huge parametrically designed interactive light ‘tree’, a sculpture of light containing 1500 ‘leaves’, panels suspended from the ceiling.

Philips Lighting Headquarters
Philips Lighting Headquarters

Reflective surfaces create a play of light and shadow. The concept is of golden light filtering through trees.

Light was used for information, visualisation, emotion and enabling. LAVA not only showcases the latest lighting technology – the sculpture gives shape and visibility to light. Light is the tool to create a volume of space.

Philips Lighting Headquarters
Philips Lighting Headquarters

LAVA used intelligent light control to generate different scenarios that activate or relax users - every panel is programmed for the whole calendar year, a bit like an ecosystem, with light effects turning golden, for example, when meetings are in progress.

The offices were designed to encourage informal ‘accidental’ interactions, a key enhancer of success in R&D businesses.

Philips Lighting Headquarters
Philips Lighting Headquarters

Special environments were created for different work situations – from concentration to communication, activation to relaxation.

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