Banca Popolare di Milano
Working
Florence | Italy
2015
Architectural Design
Luca Valsecchi
Built in the early eighteenth century the Palazzo delle Cento Finestre (Palace of One Hundred Windows) home to the BPM headquarters in Florence, is located between piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore and via de’ Cerretani. To mark its 150th anniversary Banca Popolare di Milano carried out extensive restoration work on the building in collaboration with the Superintendency of Fine Arts which brought to light a series of original frescoes and stuccoes that adorn the three floors of the building.
The architect Luca Valsecchi oversaw the entire project and entrusted Targetti with the job of enhancing the most valuable architectural details of the building through the use of light as well as ensuring the necessary conditions for environments used as offices.
The correct levels of illumination required by law for the workplace were obtained using SLIM, lightweight and minimal visual impact suspension fixtures (the section is only 4 cm x 2.6 cm). As a modular lighting system SLIM can be easily integrated even into frescoed rooms: double direct and indirect emission softly “washes” surfaces without interfering with the context as well as illuminating the entire space.
