Guided by Lights
^_Exhibition

Role: Design Team Leader @ RAD Ltd.
Location: ArtisTree Causeway Bay, HK
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Partner: LPA, Lighting Planners Associates
Program: Exhibition

Evolved societies, mainly to extend production/consumption time, stretch the length of the day modifying the circadian rhythm. The main drawbacks of this alteration will fall on our ecosystems: humans, animals, and organic systems are affected, and the magnitude of these consequences is not yet known. We have already lost some of the visible light frequency because of human actions – the Milky Way is no longer visible to the human eye. Indeed, if Vincent Van Gogh was alive now, he would be not able to paint ‘The Starry Night’ again. All forms of life rely on Earth’s predictable rhythm of day and night; it’s encoded in the DNA of all plants and animals. Humans have radically disrupted this cycle by lighting up the night.

As a positive sign, we would like to imagine a possible future scenario where light will define the growth of cities. It will be a sort of phototropism applied to architecture, where, as with plants and trees, all the buildings and infrastructures will be guided by daily changes of light.