Agemar Headquarter
Facades & Architecture
Athens, Greece
Products
Application
Outdoor
Facades
Architecture
Location
Athens, Greece
Architectural design
Sparch Architects
Lighting Designer
Eleftheria Deko Lighting Design
Photo
Nikos Daniilidis
Year
2019
Agemar Headquarter
Sinuosity and grandeur for the headquarters of the Anangel Group
Headquarters of Greece's largest maritime group, the Agemar Headquarters metaphorically ploughs the seafront of Athens. An architecture of fluid forms personifies this building that towers over the urban scenario, establishing a dialogue with the intense natural light of the Athenian sky. Winner of the Darc Awards thanks to the solid lighting design that dresses it, the group's headquarters fluctuates between design and visual aesthetics.
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The 30,000 m² building imposes itself majestically over the city. By day, the natural light highlights the building's volumes, by night each element stands out sinuously in the dark. The building is outlined in its entirety thanks to the study of a unique lighting solution, capable of emphasising and highlighting the particular characteristics of this executive space. With curvilinear shapes and divided into several floors, the building is described by two distinct bodies joined by suspension bridges. A real design and lighting challenge that required the use of customised lighting products to best reveal the building's characteristics, both during the day and at night.
The project is designed and developed to have the same perception of the architectural volumes throughout the day. The solution adopted did not foresee a direct lighting of the white part of the different floors but of the ceiling, with an upward emission of light.
The effect obtained is that of reflected light. Throughout the building we find Paseo, a linear bar customised for the project both in size and optics, so that it can adapt to the different ceiling dimensions, the irregular shape of the architecture and the non-continuous power requirements. The product, with upward-emitting asymmetric optics, was installed on the lower floor. Thanks to this optic, the light is projected with a half direction outwards. Used in this way, it avoids both an outward dispersion of light, thus reducing light pollution, and an inward dispersion of light, which could have contrasted with the interior lighting of the offices. At the entrance we still find Paseo with an 8° beam of light that blurs the base of the building to convey, in a theatrical way, a clear break from the ground . Finally, Twigs were used in the garden surrounding the building. Sinuous stems on the floor, they create plays of chiaroscuro in the vegetation surrounding the headquarters, giving movement and recalling the waves of the sea.
Products used in this project
Paseo_L Anti-glare
linear lighting
Paseo_L Anti-glare
linear lighting
Asymmetric Wallwasher, Flood
2700 K - 3000 K - 4000 K
Paseo_L
linear lighting
Paseo_L
linear lighting
Asymmetric Wallwasher, Diffused, Extra Wide Flood, Medium Flood
2700 K - 3000 K - 4000 K - RGB-W 3000 K, +1
