Project:
MAXXI
This high-profile piece of architecture represents the longest project duration that EQ2 Light has ever worked on, stretching from the initial competition winning submission through to the project completion in 2012. The MAXXI (Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo) represented a major new gallery in Rome and was undertaken directly for the Italian Ministry of Culture in Rome.
A fundamental part of the team’s design approach was to consider the building as part of the experience of visiting MAXXI – the architecture working with art and art working with the architecture – an immersive process.
In addition to the artwork illumination, considerable work went into ensuring that artificial light ‘communicated’ the building providing a clarity of direction and movement, joining the building function and the building architecture. The result is an intuitive interior that feeds into the experience of visiting MAXXI.
In addition to interior artificial lighting treatments, EQ2 worked on the daylight design for the building and the external post-dusk presentation, the latter emphasising the broader architectural context of the building.
MAXXI is one of a number of projects undertaken with Zaha Hadid Architects and has won many awards including the RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture.
EQ2 worked on the interior artificial lighting treatments, the building’s daylight design and the external post-dusk presentation.
