Un diamant lumineux dans le paysage urbain

How can an office tower be illuminated discreetly yet elegantly? How can light connect a building to its name and architectural logic, allowing it to exist at night with clarity and intention?

Completed in 2011, Solitair marked a decisive moment for Atelier dada. It was our first outdoor lighting project in India, and the beginning of a long-term reflection on how light can shape a nocturnal identity where none previously existed.

Among several design directions, a poetic abstraction of a solitaire diamond was selected, echoing the tower’s name. This concept unfolds with simplicity and precision. By day, small cubic elements appear randomly scattered across the two blind façades, introducing a subtle visual disturbance and awakening curiosity. By night, these cubes visually dissolve. Light emerges instead through finely aligned beams following the ventilation grids, while additional luminous lines appear as if suspended in space.

Each façade becomes a constellation, composed with restraint and rhythm, engaging in a quiet dialogue with the architectural grid. The project remains static and economical in its means, yet ambitious in its intent: to establish a readable, sensitive and accessible luminous language.

Solitair stands as the first gem of a larger vision, a discreet yet enduring step toward a city gradually revealed by points of light rather than overwhelmed by brightness.