ISOMETRIX Lighting Design

Isometrix was set up by Arnold Chan, an architect trained at the Architectural Association, in 1984. Its architectural approach to lighting design - visualising in three dimensions and creating a hierarchy of light effects to enhance the spatial flow of buildings and their interiors - distinguishes Isometrix from the work of traditional lighting engineers. Lighting is never an afterthought introduced to solve a problem emerging at the end of a project, but a fundamental part of a three-dimensional design process, which ultimately provides a building with its unique and special identity. Isometrix has worked with architects and designers with very differing stylistic approaches. It does not have a house-style of its own, but aims to bring out the best in any design whether overtly rational and purist or symbolic and theatrical. It utilises equipment at the forefront of lighting technology working with the leading manufacturers in specific areas of expertise and designing or ada...