LIGHT AS PART OF THE ARCHITECTURE
In Copșa Mare, light was conceived not as an addition to the architecture, but as a way of revealing it.
Working with the existing volumes, materials and shadows, the intervention follows the character of the place — allowing walls, stone, wood and darkness to become part of the composition.
BEFORE LIGHT
Before light, there is architecture.
Timber. Stone. Plaster. Proportion. Imperfection.
The intervention begins by observing what is already there.
LIGHT AND VOLUME
Light does not fill the space. It gives it depth.
Indirect light separates structure from surface and allows volume to be perceived without flattening it.
The architecture remains partly in shadow.
MATERIAL
Material needs shadow. Without shadow, texture becomes surface.
WHAT REMAINS
The project did not begin with an object.
It began with a question:
What should light reveal — and what should it leave untouched?
AN ONGOING STUDY
A PRIVATE LABORATORY
In another Saxon house in Copșa Mare, dating from the early twentieth century, the same questions are explored on a more intimate scale.
Walls, beams, thresholds and objects become an ongoing study of light and shadow.
WHEN THE OBJECT BECOMES SECONDARY
The physical form is only the beginning. What matters is the relationship it creates between light, shadow and the surrounding architecture.
OBJECT → LIGHT → SHADOW → SPACE
