• The renovation of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital façade redefines the urban landscape with a unique experiential lighting display. This iconic hospital evolves its architecture and becomes a living canvas of color and light. A hospital that not only heals but also inspires.
• This impressive installation, a project by the lighting design studio Artec Studio, has been made possible through the collaboration between Artec, Lumalia Studio, and ProtoPixel, allowing for various interactive content displays. Lumalia Studio was responsible for the manufacturing, engineering, installation, and execution of the entire digital multimedia façade, controlled by the ProtoPixel lighting platform.

Transforming Hospital Architecture with Cutting-Edge Lighting Design

Founded in 1867 and with over 130,000 square meters dedicated to child and maternal health, Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Hospital has carried out an impressive luminous transformation of its façade, establishing itself as a benchmark in architectural and technological design. Thanks to an advanced lighting and control system, the digital multimedia façade becomes an impressive digital canvas projecting dynamic and interactive light content, offering the city a unique and innovative experience.

This iconic renovation not only elevates comfort and sustainability standards but also redefines the urban landscape with structural and technological innovations. The implementation of cutting-edge materials and construction solutions has been key to improving the building's energy performance, ensuring excellent thermal and lighting behavior. As a result, more spacious, welcoming, and bright interiors are created during the day. This refurbishment has achieved a 30% reduction in energy consumption, improving the building's appearance and optimizing thermal management throughout the year. These changes not only enhance visitors' experience but also increase the hospital's visibility from Barcelona's southern entrance, both day and night.

A façade that redefines hospital architecture in Barcelona and dazzles with its innovative experiential lighting.

The Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona Hospital façade becomes an experiential lighting surface, transforming and adding new dimensions of expression to its architecture. Its privileged location, elevated and facing the city of Barcelona, offers a distinctive and characteristic element to the city's sunsets and nights.

The original design and concept of the digital multimedia façade, as well as the production of the audiovisual piece, were directed and developed by the lighting design studio Artec Studio. Lumalia Studio was in charge of the manufacturing, engineering, installation, and execution of interactive façade. The ProtoPixel platform has allowed for orchestrating and controlling the façade's lighting with an intuitive and open control solution. Together, they have created an advanced control and lighting system for this innovative installation. A unique technological solution with high visual impact, whose premise is to convey messages of reinforcement and positivity in line with the building's function.

Redefining Urban Landscapes with Experiential Lighting

The content projected on the façade ranges from figurative to abstract, including playful elements designed for children, such as children's images, geometric shapes, and interactive games, which come to life in a symphony of light and color, capturing the imagination of patients and visitors alike. This innovative proposal not only enriches the building's aesthetics but also fulfills an essential therapeutic function. Abstract projections encourage reflection and tranquility, while playful elements offer distraction and joy, especially for the little ones. Thus, defined and concrete messages can be conveyed, emphasizing and highlighting significant days of the year through the use of color schemes appropriate to the occasion.

Advanced Control and Lighting Systems for Modern Architecture

The installation features a total of 320 digital luminaires from the Italian lighting manufacturer iGuzzini RGBW, ranging from 3 to 4 meters, distributed and integrated into the facade's structure to form an interactive multimedia matrix capable of creating an impressive variety of visual effects. It boasts over 12,000 pixels independently managed through the ProtoPixel control platform. This stunning interactive architectural facade sets new standards in sustainability and urban design, positioning Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona as a pioneer towards a more technological and sustainable future.

Discover the new facade here:

-Idea, Content Concept, and Production: Lighting design studio Artec Studio
-Manufacturing, engineering, installation, and execution of the Digital multimedia Facade: LUMALIA Studio
-Lighting Platform: ProtoPixel

Lumalia Studio, part of the LEDDREAM group, specializes in the creation and execution of dynamic digital lighting projects. Their approach is based on integrating ideas and creativity with innovative techniques and technologies to offer unique and distinctive solutions. At Lumalia, we design and create lighting concepts from a careful selection of products that meet our high-quality standards and extensive professional experience. Additionally, we excel at manufacturing Ad-Hoc luminaires, i.e., luminaires customized and specifically adapted to our clients' projects. We are committed to providing the best possible lighting experience by offering solutions that perfectly fit our clients' needs and expectations. More information: atencioncliente@lumalia.es / www.lumalia.es