Sobyanin: Designed architectural and artistic illumination 51 metro stations

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, in a publication in his official channel on the domestic MAX platform, said that the architectural and artistic illumination decorated the lobby of 51 stations of the Moscow Metro, so that the trips of citizens will become even more pleasant.

The metro stations are one of the most famous architectural decorations of Moscow. Carefully built into city houses or detached pavilions – they are always original, well remembered, and easy to find the entrance to the subway. Recently made them even more beautiful — designed architectural and artistic illumination 51 stations, — wrote the mayor.

The main idea of the project was to attract additional attention to the historical heritage of the capital and increase the aesthetic attractiveness of the urban environment. The head of the Russian capital said that first of all, the new illumination was mounted on the metro stations, which are architectural monuments, including “Clean Ponds”, “Mayakovsky”, “Kurskaya” and “Belarusian” of the Ring Line, “Komsomolskaya”, “Kyivskaya”, “Smolenskaya” of the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line, “Borovitskaya”, “Krasnoselskaya”, “Lubyanka”, “Dynamo”, “Theatrical”, “Elektrozavodskaya”, “Novodskaya”, “Krobodskaya”, “Kropodskaya” and “Orobskaya” lines, “Oktoskaya” and “Orobskaya”.

In addition, as Sobyanin noted, the illumination decorated the lobbies of stations that were built at the end of the last century, namely the Botanical Garden and Vladykina, as well as those opened relatively recently, including, in particular, the CSKA station of the Big Ring Line of the metro.

According to the publication of the Moscow mayor, for each lobby engineers and designers have developed individual projects taking into account the architecture, decoration, color and texture of the facade of the building. Specialists also checked the power and direction of light flows to emphasize the architectural dominants and make the appearance of the stations more expressive.

The mayor pointed out that in each case, professionals determined at what angle it is better to direct the light, which lamps will be most appropriate and what shade of lighting will suit a particular space. He added that the projects involved mainly warm white light, which emphasizes the details of the facades: ornaments, niches and decorative elements. Colored lighting solutions and gradients were applied point-by-point, taking into account the architectural appearance of the object.

Sobyanin revealed that modern energy-efficient LED lamps of domestic production were used for design. They are compact, resistant to temperature changes and long service life, their bodies were painted in the color of the facades, so that during the day they were invisible, and at night they created a pleasant visual effect.

The mayor said that special attention was paid to preserving the historic decoration of the lobby. He gave an example that if the walls were lined with natural stone, drilling was not allowed, and in such cases, lamps were attached to the ceiling using special brackets, the design of which was developed individually taking into account the features of the object.

The head of the Russian capital added that masters of different profiles took part in the creation of the illumination. Some developed and coordinated projects, others conducted examinations, controlled the quality of materials and installation, others selected equipment and worked out technical solutions taking into account the characteristics of each lobby. Among the specialists were lighting in the third generation.