Description
The need to extend the evening hours of opening of some rooms of the Pio Clementino Museum, within the Vatican Museums Complex, raised the need to reconsider the lighting systems of the museum spaces in an organic and coordinated way.
This led to the preliminary definition of a series of artistic, architectural, technical and regulatory requirements identified in consultation with the Client, which took due account of the particular environmental context of the museum, in order safeguard the artworks and their exhibition spaces and to enhance the experience of visitors and operators.
The overall lighting design project aimed to establish a set of minimum conditions to be met in the lighting of each of the different halls and to define the technical and functional specifications of the equipment to be deployed in each of them. The type of lighting solution proposed was differentiated room by room, in accordance with the architectural, artistic, and functional characteristics of each. At the same time, some general parameters were adopted across the project, such as the use of high color rendering sources, with RA 90 index and the use of energy-saving high-emission and long-life lamps allowing to reduce energy consumption, and thus the operating and maintenance costs. Finally, the lighting system has been designed to be compatible with the most modern computerized control systems, further reducing the operating and maintenance costs.
Thechnical Data
- Type: Public building
- Location: Vatican city (CV), Italy
- Project: 2008
- Built: –
- Area: –
- Client: Vatican City – Governorate – General Directorate of Technical Services
- Manufacturers: –
- Production cost: 2.000.000 euro
- Status: Not built