Intensità e qualità della luce per la valorizzazione degli spazi storici, la sostenibilità e la salute in prossimità. Lo spazio Scervino a Firenze

Designing light and with light for cultural heritage buildings means conveying information, communicating and enhancing, also making the spaces usable, visible and perceptible, and finally recovering their historical memory. On the one hand, this choice represents the desire to enhance unique environments, rich in history and ancient elegance; on the other, it is a challenge for the designer, who must use light to adapt environments originally designed for specific uses to new and very different ones. Lighting for historical architectural heritage means new lighting designs in terms of quantity and quality, while ensuring quality of vision and perception, by optimal combination between natural and artificial light, and in addition guaranteeing the required level of protection and preventive conservation. Therefore, the lighting is a very complex operation that is not only restoring these spaces to their full value as works of art, but also communicates them by revealing their depth, shape and texture and by emphasising the objects. Our lighting project takes into account the multidisciplinary aspects that the lighting design requires today, since the quantity and quality of light are fundamental components of the well-lighting, understood as quality of vision and perception, environmental quality and sustainability, and well-being as people health and security. The dynamic light control and design made it possible to reorganise the spaces and create pathways, which provide to users/visitors information and new perceptions, telling them about the critical and dramatic period we are living through, leading them with optimistic perspectives along new paths of proximity defined but creative physical distances. The new lighting, with its quantity and quality rhythm over time, writes and narrates of a historical space and of an exclusive high-fashion art, and of the uniqueness of the designer (Ermanno Scervino) and his particularities and preciousness, we may even say rare ways that are both forms of expression and research for a refined and stilted elegance. What we have proposed is a new lighting that “writes” by tracing on the retina, right in the networks of memory, the enormous transformations we are experiencing, thus causing them to become cognitive retinal images and guiding us to the rediscovery of the unique historical spaces and of the exclusive objects/artefacts on display. The new lighting’s control and regulation, filtering and transforming systems just as plants through digital technologies, and the integration with natural elements, provide a visual and perceptive setting where shopping becomes a new proximity and emotional experience.