Interior Lighting for Statera Headquarters | iGuzzini

iGuzzini is an Italian company dedicated to the design and manufacture of lamps and lighting systems for every architectural and design endeavor.

Located on the top two floors of a tall building on Avenue Charles de Gaulle, the Statera headquarters enjoys a view that extends unobstructed from the Eiffel Tower to the Vuitton Foundation in the south, and from La Défense, on a clear day, as far as the Arc de Triomphe in the north. Thanks to this location, natural light floods generously across the two floors on the south side as well as offering changing conditions during the day and year.

The idea behind the project for the headquarters of this corporation was to go beyond the normal formalities applied to workspaces and create a more domestic environment with a warm and friendly atmosphere.

The design team had to rethink traditional office lighting in a discreet, intimate, and environmentally conscious way. The visual comfort of users of the space was also taken into account, as well as compliance with workspace lighting regulations. The overall aim was to create lighting that would allow anyone to work in all of the environments. These spaces were created with no subdivisions or predetermined uses. As a consequence, the lighting of the 10 workrooms was designed as large or small apartment living rooms. A warm color temperature of 2700K was chosen instead of the 3000K or 4000K traditionally used in offices.

Much of the lighting in these environments is created by decorative elements with natural materials, to underline the domestic atmosphere. But these are complemented by Palco accent lighting projectors. In some cases, small versions of these luminaires have been placed inside vases to emphasize the plants and greenery that fill these spaces.

The first floor houses a large work area with state-of-the-art computer equipment. In this area, 5-cell Laser Blade XS recessed luminaires have been used. There is also a large open space kitchen, where black Palco tracks and projectors have been installed. Recessed versions of Palco projectors fitted with colored reflective film have also been used on the ceilings to play with rays of natural light during the day and diffuse artificial light in the evening.

Luminaire miniaturization has been very useful for managing the lighting of some of the small spaces, like the toilets where recessed Laser ⦰38 luminaires have been used and the rest areas where the same recessed Laser ⦰38 luminaires have been inserted in a wooden ceiling.

Superrail and LV tracks have been used for both the Palco and Laser Blade luminaires installed in the kitchen and jazz room.

The top floor has two terraces where Walky bollards also illuminate a small petanque court and Palco inOut projectors have been inserted in the greenery and run along the glass wall where they are mounted on the window frames to create a sense of continuity with the Palco projectors installed on the track inside. The glass walls to the north and south create four inviting interior spaces reminiscent of seaside houses.