Soliscape

 Delta Light
 2020

Complete in UNStudio product design team

With the aim to create sensor-based environments that respond, learn and adjust to people's daily activities, UNStudio and Delta Light created Soliscape, a toolbox of flexible components that can be used to create ‘lightscapes’ that respond to their user’s ever-changing needs and activities.

Knowing that environmental factors including light, sound, scent, air quality and temperature can have a huge effect on our health, we designed Soliscape (sound and light-scape) to be a human-centric lighting solution that can be tailored to its individual user to have a positive effect on their wellbeing.

This versatile system uses sensors to determine the optimal lighting and acoustic conditions for users, and adjusts the settings to best suit their needs.

The goal is to take smart buildings towards responsive architecture through a system that gives people intuitive control and personalisation of their space.

Humanising Space

Humanising spaces involves investigating behavioural science. Soliscape influences the productivity and wellbeing of users by allowing more intuitive control of their spaces in a scenario-based development. The system enables the user to adapt the lighting and surrounding factors in order to optimise working conditions.

The Soliscape system is about optimising visual performance with visual comfort and the quality of the environment. It responds to multiple contextual variables and activity based actions, thereby upgrading the overall sense of space.

The Toolbox

The system is a toolbox of flexible components for architects and designers, that will enable them to create workable and liveable solutions for their projects; a system that combines lighting with acoustics and IOT, into an aesthetically appealing solution that can easily connect to any building management system. The system is also flexible and future-proof, as it allows for new materials and functions to be added in the future.

With its basic framing it allows for a variety of complementary circular materials to expand its aesthetics, and its language to morph, retaining a clear and strong aesthetic. Different materials can be used within the system to facilitate for specific functionalities, from acoustic to decorative and illuminous atmospheric scenes.