Hart van Heteren

2022-2024 | Lighting vision and design

Heteren is creating a new village centre, with new residencies, artworks and activities, attracting new residents and businesses. They asked me to create a light vision for its centre and surrounding areas. In cooperation with the residents, entrepreneurs and makers of the public art, I created an overall vision that is all about adapting light to activities in the town, emphasising the character of Heteren and its surroundings, and low light levels for ecological reasons. A Smart Lighting infrastructure enables finetuning of light levels of all connected sources, and creating joint expressions in the whole area.

I am currently detailing the city centre lighting design. An important part of this process is to coordinate with private parties and municipal lighting, in order to keep overall light levels low, do most with as least light as possible, and limit light spilling into the surrounding nature.

Phase 1 on the plan is realised in 2024.

Client: Stichting Hart van Heteren, Gemeente Overbetuwe.