“Zolotoy” is a luxury residential complex on Bolotnaya and Sofiyskaya embankments. The club quarter is located in the very center of Moscow opposite the Kremlin. It has the highest level of privacy and unique views of the Kremlin, St. Basil’s Cathedral, the Moscow River and Zamoskvorechye.

The lighting design solution for the Zolotoy residential complex is a comprehensive approach that harmoniously combines architectural and landscape lighting. Evening lighting emphasizes the uniqueness of the residential complex and its status, its characteristic architectural features and decorative elements, while eliminating parasitic light in the windows, ensuring maximum comfort for residents.

The developed lighting solutions have become a significant element of the residential environment design, not violating the architectural integrity of the object neither by the appearance of lighting equipment nor by the installation elements. The chosen lighting design techniques, color temperature and intensity of light sources fully correspond to the architectural style and create a comfortable lighting environment, meeting not only lighting standards, but also the aesthetic perception of a premium residential complex.

Both on the street side and on the territory of the residential complex, the light tactfully highlights the key elements of architecture, decorative patterns of facades, stone relief, which allows to convey the volume and characteristic features when it’s dark. There is no feeling of oversaturation of light in the courtyard of the complex. This became possible thanks to local accent lighting, precise targeting of lighting devices, optimum level of illumination and brightness, as well as carefully selected optics, excluding light entering the windows. The lighting designers paid attention to functional tasks.
For example, the lighting of entrance groups of residential buildings is thought out with precision down to the smallest detail. For the entrance canopies of some buildings were developed special built-in lighting devices with magnetic mounts, which provides the necessary level of illumination, visual comfort, simplicity and ease of installation, as well as an aesthetically pleasing modern look of the entrance area. For the lighting of other entrance groups used luminaires that are mounted in the profile of the door, which minimizes the number of fixtures, and therefore does not need to be attached to the facade and visually “ruin” the architecture. To illuminate the lower buildings of the residential complex were used ground-mounted luminaires which illuminate the window slopes of the first floors. They create an aesthetic effect on the facades and do not visually overload the perception of small mansions. The power of all luminaires was selected taking into account the size of the buildings and external illumination, thus achieving a comfortable level of brightness for eyesight.

The aesthetics of the premium complex perception is also achieved in the daytime: the lighting fixtures are painted in the color of the facade (on some facades, depending on the mounting points, the luminaires are painted in 2 or even 3 colors – this is due to the color solutions of the facades of some buildings), and they remain almost invisible, blending in with the finish; they are also almost invisible thanks to their placement on certain places on the facade, where they were installed thanks to specially designed mounting pads and brackets. The fixing elements help to ensure the required positioning of the luminaries on the facade and their targeting, ensuring the desired lighting effect.