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Casa Fuerte

Prize(s) Honorable Mentions
Company 1er [DIA] - Diseño en Iluminación Arquitectónica
Lead Designers MIGUEL ANGEL CALANCHINI
Completion Date Dec. 2016
Project Location Huimilpan Queretaro, México
Entry Description

This +300-year-old masonry structure once served as a granary silo during colonial times, located in the middle of very flat agricultural lands amidst and unbuilt surroundings adjoining Queretaro one of the cities with the fastest development and growth in the midlands of Mexico. Demanding exceptional and unique spaces.

The almost 9 meter tall structure had received a long and complex restoration in order to be repurposed and the new program required a versatile lighting both interior and exterior to effectively convey festive and formal environments for cultural activities and social gatherings also to attract possible visitors on a naturally darkened nightscape on a remote location.

Lighting was conceived to add an extra layer of value to an already superb monument restoration and exquisite landscape design inspired by nature, rich in species and textures that elicit a subtle balance of the natural setting.
The conceptual lighting explored the Sunset as a dialog between exterior an