Nello Baroni, cinematografo Stadio
(1947-51), Firenze / Nello Baroni, Stadio
movie theater (1947-51), Florence
of the integrated interdisciplinary approach
oriented to users and observers. This is the
base of the strong relationship between
the architecture of light and the architecture
with light, i.e. luminous architectures and
illuminated architectures. It could almost
look like a tautology.
The light that we think and design as technical
physicists – for environmental control, the
thermal and luminous control of buildings
and surrounding spaces – and as architectural
historians – to define knowledge, distance,
spatiality, and temporality – involves the
emotional perception and, therefore,
all the factors contributing to the design of
an atmosphere that welcomes and stimulates
the visitor/observer: design tools; colour use;
materials; light control and regulation
techniques aimed at optical-perceptive
and proprioceptive movements; interactions
and connections of all non-verbal languages
that transmit, with greater immediacy and
universality, the same content as a signic,
pictorial, textual, or verbal message, i.e.
the “common sense”. Today, visiting museums
and exhibitions is an emotional experience,
a combination of visual and optical-perceptive
choices of products, objects, artworks
(material goods, but also services), and choices
for the sought-after benefits.
In order to recompose a dynamic space
through light of quality, a philological path
of interaction between lighting fields and
perceptive experiences, the lighting project
must start from the definition and study of the
current luminous climate of an environment
Somatic spaces (personal and identifying one’s
own body position), exhibition-museum,
socio-relational, emotional, and
representation spaces are scanned by light
architectures, within which the subject
experiences their luminous contour.
Here the link and the shared thought between
the historian and the physicist lie: the concept
of light as a physical and plastic formant
of architecture.
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