These lines were born as a result of long, intense, and delightful conversations with architect Miguel Ángel Aragonés. The ideas expressed here have been shared and practiced in an ongoing, mutual inquiry into light and architecture, working together, at the same time and with the same tools. We have both experienced the sense of both disciplines — light and architecture — where the silence of one is expressed in the sound of the other. Light and architecture are akin to twin sisters, twin brothers.
All results obtained in the application of light employing natural and electrical resources became possible due to the unfailing architectural persistence and will of Aragonés, followed by the darkness expressed in my blind exercise of interpreting space in terms of light.
All credits are mutual and become one unified work.
Nicola Lorusso Photography
Studio
mexico city, mexico
2003
In nature, as in architecture, the resource of light in itself is not to be seen. This simple law constitutes and shapes the foundations of designing illumination in architecture.
The purpose of a lighting design program in architecture is to convert and restore the visual reading of space, based on nature and the importance of natural or artificial light. At the same time, it confronts the curious paradox in which light reaches, arises, and transforms all aspects of time and space, until the tolerant, watchful presence of darkness contains it.
In other words, the process of designing illumination addresses the fact that working with light is not just working with light sources or lamps. Instead, above all else, it traps and captures an alternation of art and texture, in the alchemy of the state of darkness, transforming itself as evidence of the state of illumination.
To make a blank, white space is to open the doors to thought and reflection. An object laden with lines and forms is an invitation to read and to process them. A space with few elements invites us to read deeper, to think. The greatest challenge — not only for an architect but also for any of us — is to live on par with our intentions, above all bringing our work into harmony with our way of thinking. I believe that's the moment when ethics produces aesthetics. This studio is designed for the diffusion of space and ideas.
PRoject DEtails
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Miguel Angel Aragonés
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Georgina Amador, Juan C. Leon, Juan Carlos Calanchini, Gabriel Villalobos
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Nicola Lorusso
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Xawery Wolski
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Mexico city, Mexico
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1,102 M2