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Saga City Space
Expolight

BRICK LACE IN THE HEART OF PODOLY

A revealing, soft, muted light fills the facade from the inside. And its openwork part comes to the fore thanks to external sliding lighting.

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Expolight

Previously, we launched a gentle display of the entire field, and now we have included an utterly internal backlight, which with special lamps, gives a balanced light in front of the hidden windows.

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Expolight

For this, we developed special compact lamps and placed them in narrow gaps between the openwork perforated brick facade and the warm facade inside the window area. We made the windows appear, but they simulated bright light from inside the rooms and spread a halo around. And now, with that layer on, dimmed and balanced the outer fill layer, so they're in a relatively correct luminance hierarchy.

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Expolight

Now the brick lace looks even more elegant and lighter! Due to the subtle illumination from the inside, the idea of the shifted irregular grid of internal window openings is revealed even more in relation to the regular grid of windows.
In terms of lighting, we tried to maintain the balance that Oleg Drozdov himself sought by fitting the new building into the traditional development of the Podil area. It turned out beautiful and modern! It is nice that this object has been repeatedly recognized by the jury of the top lighting design competitions - LIT and Dezeen.
And it is even more pleasant to see, walking along Podol, that for the residents of Kyiv and guests of the city, the facade of Saga City Space has become a real insta-point, which few people can pass by without taking a good photo!

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Expolight
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