As part of our recent move to the High Tech Campus on the edge of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, we commissioned a new Lighting Application Center (LAC), designed to be an integral part of the headquarters building. The same architect, LAVA, Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, worked on both projects. Alexander Rieck, who heads up the office in Stuttgart, Germany, is in charge of the project. He explained, ‘If an architect or a planner visiting the LAC bumps into people by chance, that is an advantage. The location becomes unique for everybody.‘
All visitors to the building, whether to the offices or to the LAC, pass through the atrium which means, as Rieck comments, ‘It had to be very strong architecturally. The main tool that we had to do this with was light.’