Role: Senior Architectural Lighting Designer at Ambience Lighting

Deliverables: Architectural lighting design, lighting plans and calculations, custom circular skylight system with stretch ceiling fabric panels

Key Responsibilities: Collaborated with Aesop interior architects to create a lighting design reflecting the brand's minimalist aesthetic and the store's geometric concept inspired by Pezo Von Ellrichshausen's intersecting circles at the Venice Biennale (2016) and William Blackwell's Geometry in Architecture (1984). Developed circular skylights with stretch ceiling fabric panels to mimic natural pools of daylight, echoing the store's repeated curved wall motif that creates three cocoons within the space. Meticulously calculated light levels to ensure retail shelves were adequately illuminated using only ceiling panels, eliminating the need for track lights or downlights. Integrated lighting seamlessly with curved walls and product displays to create a fluid retail environment exploring how people inhabit pure geometrical forms.

Outcome: Achieved a clean, minimalistic ceiling design with no visible downlights or track lights, perfectly aligning with Aesop's signature understated elegance. The circular ceiling panels successfully provided functional illumination for product displays while maintaining soft, natural lighting appropriate for skincare retail. The design created a refined environment where lighting and architecture work in harmony, demonstrating that aesthetic purity and functional requirements can coexist without compromise.