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Rozafa Castle

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Shkodra, Albania

Rozafa Castle
Application
  • Outdoor

Location

Shkodra, Albania

Lighting designer

Fulvio Baldeschi

Photo

Pietro Savorelli

Year

2020

Rozafa Castle

History, culture and nature in the Land of the Eagles

Shkodra is the most important city in northern Albania. It has always been a border town, subject to Venetian, Slavic and Ottoman influences and dominations. An interweaving of cultures still clearly visible today in the traces of Islamic and Catholic, Italian and Turkish architecture found in the monuments, buildings and also in Rozafa Castle, the symbol of Shkodra and the best vantage point over the city and its surroundings. Perched atop a promontory, wedged between three rivers, the fortress once controlled the entrance to the city. It was built by the Illyrians and later enlarged over the years by the Venetians and then the Ottomans, with interventions still clearly visible today. Its name is linked to the legend of the young Rozafa, who was walled up alive inside it as an offering to the gods.

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Play of light and shadow

Exploiting shadows and playing with darkness to find light and thus emphasise the architectural lines of the site. This is the strategy adopted by Fulvio Baldeschi, lighting designer at the head of Light Company, the studio in charge of the lighting project. The city walls, in particular, were the subject of a careful design to avoid the typical 'flat effect' that can be obtained with unstudied lighting. Playing with shadows, through a skilful use of lighting fixtures, guarantees the most effective result in terms of enhancing the complex in general and the individual architectural details. For this reason, the lighting design studio chose to use both professional products and industrial luminaires from Linea Light Group, which, precisely because of their characteristics, made it possible to achieve lighting scenes on a par with an aurora borealis.
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New light for the city's iconic fortress

Prolamp from I-LèD Industrial is the luminaire of choice and widely used for the illumination of the city walls. It is a projector equipped with a robust housing that allows extensive use in outdoor environments, and has the characteristics of a professional product: efficiency of the light source, high colour rendering, and the ability to maintain aim to emphasise the depth and three-dimensionality of the walls. For the lighting of the inner part of the walls and the minaret, on the other hand, two solutions were chosen: on the one hand, Periskop, the projector with modern lines and design that allows accent lighting emphasising architectural details; on the other hand, the linear High Wired profile, which allowed to obtain a counter-field light playing again with shadows. The lighting of the entrance area is provided by Envelope, the versatile walkway luminaire used here in a single-emission version, and by Xenia, the family of luminaires with multiple configuration possibilities that adapt to every lighting requirement, used here specifically to illuminate the barbican entrance. Finally, most of the luminaires have been fitted with a protection grid to prevent vandalism and with an external Bluetooth dimmer with Casambi protocol, the advanced professional system designed for wireless lighting management which, compared to the Dali network and thanks to Bluetooth technology, allows for more effective programming in relation to the length of the wall.

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The products used

Prolamp

Prolamp

Periskop45

Periskop45

High Wired

High Wired

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Envelope_1

Xenia_W

Xenia_W

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