sultan brahim’s warm interior is generously decked with wooden walls and ceilings. an open floor plan with service areas found on its perimeters leaves a dining experience centered. overhead, wooden beams stretch out every couple of meters, framing recurrent tent-like PVC ceilings. our task at hand was to compliment the warmth of the space and provide ample task lighting.
to begin, all service bars with stone cladded backdrops were grazed downwards with linear light. Moving in towards the center, a combination of three methods was applied – direct & indirect linear lighting, and accent lighting.
the beams that extended horizontally across the ceiling included lit grooves with hidden projectors. this allowed directional task lighting for the tables below. the outer edges of these beams provided linear light found at 45° upwards, grazing the white tented design.
walking through the corridor, a series of equidistant wooden planks were embedded with linear light strips at a random pattern. in the reception area, two “artichokes” by louis poulsen hang elegantly above the reception desk to either greet you with a hello or farewell.