Prize(s) Winners in Heritage Lighting Design
Lighting Design/Product Company Croled Lighting JSC
Lead Designers Thanh Nguyen
Other Designer's names Viet Phi, Tu Nguyen, Dai Nguyen, Quynh Luu
Architecture Company Arb Architects
Interior Design Company Arb Architects
Client Xuan Hinh
Photo Credits Trieu Chien
Other Credits Ha Nguyen Arb
Completion Date 2023
Project Location Soc Son, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Entry DescriptionLight at the Dao Mau Museum is treated as an intangible material-telling a story of memory, heritage, and the journey home to the Mother. From the first step, visitors are guided not by signs, but by light itself. This illumination evokes rural villages, weathered tiles, and the quiet shadows of old trees. The museum is built from five million reclaimed roof tiles, each carrying traces of generations. Architecture adds nothing new, so light must remain subtle, awakening the vitality within each tile, each grain of brick. Every beam is intentional: sometimes stopping at waist height, prompting reverence. Light here does not spotlight artifacts but reveals the architectural skin, preserving the memory of materials.
Outside, a half century old lychee garden surrounds three sacred towers, rising as milestones linking sky, earth, human. Landscape lighting orchestrates emotion: towers glow as focal points, nearby trees rest in shadow, while depth perception defines distance and pathfinding. No fences or signs exist-light alone shapes rhythm and orientation. Dimming ensures seamless transitions, grazing reveals textures, optics turn each light into a brushstroke. Paths of light connect walls, trees, and memory into one narrative. At Dao Mau Museum, light is no longer just illumination, it is memory, rhythm, and material, silently awakening stories so past and present may meet again.
