Commercial Entrance Ceiling Art Installation was recognized with a Lighting Control Innovation Award of Merit in the 2025 Illumination Awards held by the Illuminating Engineering Society. Lighting and control design by RDesign International Lighting. Photography by Zhenjiang Wang.
The Lighting Control Innovation Award was created in 2011 as part of the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Illumination Awards program, which recognizes professionalism, ingenuity, and originality in lighting design. The Lighting Controls Academy is proud to be a founding and longstanding founding sponsor of the Lighting Control Innovation Award, which recognizes projects that exemplify the effective use of lighting controls.
The theme of the installation is “The wind caresses the wheat ears.” The primary factor in the design was not the specific form, but the search for a natural feeling of people in nature.
The designers drew inspiration from the concept of natural scenery and designed an intentional form of wind-blown wheat waves. With the continuous flow and changes of wind and light, it ultimately transforms into a flowing natural form. The light on the ceiling is connected to the behavior of people passing below.
By creating an integrated metal chain hidden lighting scheme and utilizing multiple addresses independently controlling light strips, the effect is realized. Combined with the wind blowing through the metal chain and the lighting, multiple light and shadow combinations are achieved; there is also a position sensor installed on the ceiling to capture pedestrians, and through the lights on the metal chain of the ceiling, layers of ripples are formed. The light moves with people and presents diverse dynamic effects according to the density of pedestrian flow.
