58|CUADERNOS DATA SHEET PROPIEDAD. Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla. Consejería de Fomento. ARQUITECTURA: Chacel 8 Jose Antonio Fernandez Fernandez Jesus Fernandez Fernandez www.chacel8.com estudio@ chacel8.com LIGHTING DESIGN: DCI Diseño y Consultoría de Iluminación Fo Javier Górriz Sánchez www.d-ci.es / info@d-ci.es DESARROLLO DE LUMINARIA ‘CANDIL’: Ilumarte (Pralibel, S.A.) Ingeniero: Oscar Antuña Castro www.ilumarte.com CONSTRUCTORA: UTE Azuche-Doranjo ARQUEOLOGÍA: Instituto de Cultura Mediterránea de Melilla FOTOGRAFÍAS: Braulio Tortosa Murciano Jesús Granada temperatures, recreating the fire glows, and that fade smoothly up the vertical plane. A uniform wash would have created a flat and boring image of the building, but in this fashion, the result is eloquent without whimsicality. The light variations in colour temperature achieve a pictorial effect, and the accents punctuate the reading of the whole façade. On the sidewalls, the battlements are shaped vertically by light, giving order and rhythm to the image of the fortress, and the volume is then outlined clearly. This project offered many good opportunities to give bright and smart solutions, and the results talk themselves about the synchronicity between architect, engineering and lighting design. The access ramp, built to assure mobility has been turned into a lighting integration element that gives the ambiance to the interior of the patio. This kind © Braulio Tortosa of applications allows to respect faithfully the image of the building during the day and sets interesting nocturnal displays at nights. The light sources, hidden from direct vision, draw smoothly curves of light and shadow. The ventilation chimes were discovered during the restoration and now they work as lanterns, lit from the interior, a true eye candy when visiting the terraces of the walls. The result is full of this kind of subtle details, fruit of the application of technique and imagination The architects, the engineer and the lighting designer have developed an autonomous battery-driven luminaire with the shape of a primitive candlelight. Fitted with three LED of different tones of amber and warm colour temperatures, and controlled by an implementation of the ZigBee protocol, integrated with the rest of the installation, controlled by a KNX system, through a Printed Circuit Board bridge specially designed for this application. With this development, the oil candle has been transported to the 21st century, that of the hyper-connectivity and the Internet of things. ■ © Jesús Granada