| Lightwall Cirie, Turin, Italy ecoLogicStudio The concept of lightwall reinterpret the traditional massive Italian wall as a thick solid sponge, whose ability to absorb and filter heat, light and view can be changed and adapted to contextual requirements. In a large villa conversion project sun, light and privacy conditions where mapped on the site and a wall solution of pre-cast concrete insulated and custom designed blocks was chosen as preferred. The ability to control, as a single connected system, both the geometry of the holes and the overall wall/sponge behavior in relationship to the contexts environmental pressures, allowed design to emerge as an iterative process. Optimization resulted into a higher de |
