This private residence provided an excellent scope to explore new lighting techniques with the added complication of designing lighting for an existing listed structure. Careful consideration was taken to minimise disruption to the fabric of the existing building and to conceal as many light sources from view.

The philosophy was to express the interior architecture with the use of lighting. Different techniques were used to express particular architectural elements such as up lighting the brick piers to expose hidden colour and texture and provide up lighting at the same time to the columns and trusses. A simple light fitting was developed to sit within restricted spaces within the roof lines. These were concealed from view to up light and down light the exposed pitch beamed ceiling to the main living space and leisure areas.

Minimal touches of colour in the pool area provide contrast to the extensive red birch details, which are also clearly visible from the exterior. The exterior is sympathetically lit with low level lighting and architecturally sympathetic wall lights that blend and compliment the architecture.