Newbury Park, California, USA
BMW Designworks and Landscape Forms have teamed up to present the new Typology Ring Light that as an ethereal floating halo—due to the circular strip of LEDs—creates a solid ring of ambient light that can be recognized instantly from almost a mile away.
Typology Ring Light’s design and sustainable concept recently won a 2022 Green Good Design Award from The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Typology Ring Lights are stunning, seemingly levitating light fixtures with illumination reminiscent of the sun’s corona during an eclipse.
And when viewed from underneath, the luminaires are portals to the sky, pulling the gaze upward and accentuating a vertical urban landscape.
Typology Ring Lights are striking pieces of industrial design by day, and by night, they become enchanting and ethereal pieces of luminescent art.
The Typology Ring Light is dark-sky compliant meaning that it minimizes glare while reducing light trespass, light pollution, and skyglow.
All fixtures that receive this fixture seal of approval from the International Dark-Sky Association are required to be fully shielded and to minimize the amount of blue light in the nighttime environment which has a direct impact on wildlife, ecosystems, and human health.
The Typology Ring Lights is part of the Typology Collection, an innovative seating, and lighting system that adds a dynamic new dimension to any site, enveloping the visitor—both from above and below— in an immersive experience.
Sculptural elements play in both the vertical and horizontal planes, incorporating both light and shadow, to draw the eyes skyward and then back to the earth with signature design features.
The Typology Collection is systematic and adaptable, living comfortably in both new and existing architectural environments to guide the movement of traffic and create unique, three-dimensional spaces that invite and connect, surprise, and inspire.
The materials are elegant and refined, yet resilient and enduring—cast aluminum and concrete run as a common thread through the collection to create a unified visual and tactile experience.
Technological advances in manufacturing and lighting integration challenge preconceptions of form and space.
Project: Typology Ring Light
Designers: BMW Designworks USA, Inc.
Manufacturer: Landscape Forms, Inc.
