Lighting Design That’s An Exercise In Consistency For Inspire Pilates, Stage Two.
By ambience
April 9, 2025
A new upstairs space for the multi-awarded Inspire Pilates, Melbourne collab with Bergman & Co
The first instalment of Inspire Pilates was recognised for lighting design at the Casambi, Dezeen, LIT Lighting Design and Darc Awards.
The original space was billed as is a fascinating marriage of design, psychology, emotion and human response. ambience performed numerous light level experiments to perfect scenes using Casambi according to how the space was going to be habituated. This resulted in lighting being incredibly adaptable and versatile across various events and classes.
ambience were engaged to maintain the consistency with illumination and help enhance the upstairs expansion through a subtle, gentile and non-direct approach to the lighting design.
INTERIOR DESIGN
Bergman & Co
LIGHTING
ambience
We utilised architecture elements to ‘hide’ the lights and set the desired mood. With the goal being to illuminate without any direct light while maintaining consistency and discretion, the use of ‘upside down’ lights and uplighting with Australian-made Symphony Lighting’s Rondo (tunable 1800k – 3k to address the mood challenge) was used to push light across the space. We worked with other spatial objects and materials such as the tinted mirror and felt tiles to add to the lighting effect and output.
Rondo Fixed Surface Mounted
Medley Surface/Concealed
The hero luminaire of the space is a multi-layered vertical custom aluminium shroud wall light to bring some playfulness through colour into the space. Inspired by the previous use of colour (similar to staircase upstairs). The luminaire is designed to illuminate from multiple directions at once. Facing the room is RGBW, and for wall grazing effect, we wanted a subtle glow, so to face the wall, we used a Medley tunable 1800k – 3k. Other highlights include:
- Aluminium angle with light inside shining (Medley. Tunable) + uplighting (Rondo tunable 1800k – 3k) to address the mood challenge.
- Angled LED was used to push light across the space.
BUILD
Yarra Valley Commercial
PHOTOGRAPHY
Nicole Reed
“Lighting is pivotal to creating a warm inviting sanctuary, forging a safe haven for female empowerment and health.” Sharlene Jayawardena, Lighting Designer
WATCH INSPIRE PILATES – LE ORIGINAL!
