Designed by LAVA, Golden light shines through a canopy of leaves to create a unique gathering space in the atrium of the new Philips Lighting headquarters in Eindhoven.

Intelligent lights in the parametric designed ?tree? generate different scenarios, boosting communication, interchange, and wellbeing for staff and visitors.

LAVA, with partners INBO and JHK, designed the adaptation of the mid 20th-century building for the new headquarters. The aim was to design public and workspaces that embrace the innovative, people-centric values of lighting technology company Philips.
Photography: Jonathan Andrew
?The atrium, originally the central courtyard of the 1950s building, was designed as a place of welcome, wayfinding, branding and staff interaction, and therefore had to be strong spatially,? said LAVA director Alexander Rieck.
The atrium also brings people together by congregating core activities such as exhibitions, meeting rooms, coffee bar, public talks and staff meetings, and is also the entrance to the new Philips Lighting Application Centre.

Staff and visitors are greeted in the central atrium by LAVA?s huge parametrically designed interactive light ?tree? comprised of 1500 ?leaves?, hanging pyramidal panels suspended from the ceiling. The concept is of light filtering through trees.

Covering the whole atrium ceiling the sculpture demonstrates the behavior of light, both natural and artificial: reflection, diffusion, and emission.
Photography: Jonathan Andrew
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