Designed with Carlotta de Bevilacqua, Scrittura brings a change into the light and surface integration paradigm.
Light melts with space defining and describing its architecture, and even becoming a three-dimensional luminous support. Two basic modules – a luminous module and a dumb module – are combined into a potentially unlimited system.
The former is a combination of two L-shaped elements, an aluminium frame and an optical methacrylate unit, which make up an object that appears as a luminous graphic sign, describing space through light.
The white light of Scrittura clearly defines luminous surfaces and comes in two different emissions: asymmetrical wallwasher as a pure scenic light; symmetrical, diffusing, and controlled in the white version, suited for more functional scenarios.
Based on a calculated optical proportion, only a small share of the emitted light is intercepted by the 45° edges, which act as formal distinctive traits of the project. Light is then driven along the methacrylate lighting guide, producing an inspiring luminous track in space.
The enhanced mechanical joints in the project and a mains voltage power connection allow to create a free and unlimited lighting system starting from a single power output.
The vision and perception of the product and of light act as a semantic texture of the luminous space by allowing a 360° combination of light emissions, both vertically and horizontally. In fact, direct and indirect vertical emission, as well as horizontal internal and external emission can be combined in a continuum. This option is available in all the versions – wall, suspension, and ceiling.
The second basic module in the system is an extruded element that contains a vetronite printed circuit board. This creates a low-voltage safety track to which three appliances can be attached with magnets to perform the three main luminous tasks. A Lambert-emission half-sphere, a controlled-emission projector with three light beams (2X…, 2X…, 2X…), and a linear diffusing appliance become the lighting appendages of a mechanical structure that wriggles away in space and takes a broad variety of configurations and combinations. Each of these appliances can be locally dimmered upon installation by means of the special pin.
The safety voltage track module integrates both electrically and mechanically with the lighting modules, thus creating multiple diversified space and light landscapes in the suspension, ceiling, and semi-recessed version.
A next-generation control technology allows remote controlling of the Scrittura lighting modules using Hand Gesture – with simple, intuitive gestures codified by an on-board circuit, the whole scene or the individual modules can be switched on and off or dimmered.
