Centrale Operativa Protezione Civile di Torino
City: Turin
Country: Italy
Architectural Design: Gaetano Mauro e Cristina Rovano
Lighting Design: Gaetano Mauro e Cristina Rovano
The heart of the new Municipal Civil Protection Centre, whose interior architectural and lighting design was developed by the architects, Gaetano Mauro and Cristina Rovano, is represented by the Command Centre. It consists of the Crisis Unit Room, organised around a large specially designed meeting table, with cabled workstations facing a large video wall, the Operating Room, designed with four hexagon custom-made work areas each containing five workstations separated acoustically, but not visually, by crystal glass walls, and a Call Centre Room set up to receive external calls reporting urgent cases.
The lighting fixtures chosen for the Command Room allowed differentiating the four work areas. In fact, different coloured light rings were used for each hexagon work area in order to allow immediate identification of the function assigned to each area. These requirements were fully met with the ceiling, suspended and wall-mounted versions of Targetti’s DESE fixtures. The Municipal Civil Protection Centre also contains a Press Room with a foyer linked to the Crisis Unit Room via an audio/video system. The best lighting solution for this room was to install both wall-mounted fixtures with indirect light, such as Targetti's Q-BO, and the most streamlined lighting fixtures possible, such as Targetti’s MULTISTORE system, which is suitable for rooms with a low ceiling.
One type of lighting fixture was chosen for all the other rooms (atrium, reception, corridors and bathrooms), whose versatility allows it to adapt to the various situations by means of the accessories available. Once again, the choice fell on Targetti, and more specifically, CCT-FLASH. A more decorative version of this fixture was installed in the lobby and reception and the IP44 version in the toilets. In terms of energy saving, with the exception of the disc lighting bodies, all the fixtures use low-consumption fluorescent light bulbs with electronic ballast.