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Light as Architecture. Form as Emotion

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Light. Narrative and Emotion

Light is one of our most powerful tools—yet it remains invisible until it touches something.

We treat natural light the way a sculptor approaches raw material—be it stone or wood. Just as stone can be polished, honed, carved, or textured to reveal its depth, so too can light be guided, softened, fragmented, or layered. We direct it, diffuse it, shape it through surfaces and objects, creating shadows, reflections, and rhythm.

In the Centralny Residence apartment in the heart of Almaty, reflections glide across the surface of the marble floor, bouncing upward to illuminate walls and ceilings. Light flows seamlessly through the entire space—subtle, living, ever-changing.

As evening falls, we shift into a new chapter—curating a lighting scenario with layered sources, controlled intensities, and intuitive switching.

Architectural lighting shapes form, geometry, and volume.
 Decorative lighting, on the other hand, is where light becomes art—an emotional gesture that adds soul to the space.


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A New Interpretation of Light

In this project, the ceiling lighting system by Centrsvet provides soft, even illumination that is both eco-conscious and unobtrusive. For an emotional accent, we turned to Davide Groppi, whose Pablo fixture serves as a sculptural gesture—an object born from the synergy of heightened emotion and intellectual clarity.

Context is everything. It bridges two worlds: the technical and the timeless, engineering and art, logic and intuition.

The Pablo light is a quiet invention—weightless, minimal, poetic. It reinforces the purity of the space rather than drawing attention to itself. Its diffused light gently shifts in tone and intensity, creating mood rather than spectacle.

The design language of this interior is defined by clarity over clutter, yet with an undercurrent of expressive depth. Just like the fixture itself, the space is an exploration of restraint and sensuality—a balance of silence and presence.

This is not just lighting. It’s emotion, softly embedded in form.




    Kvadrat architects

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