Design by: Albert Viaplana & Helio Piñón

The LLUM-I lamp post marries light and shadow with its cast stone form. It has a pyramid shape with a rectangular base that sits on the ground, angled towards the illuminated area. By day it looks like a sculpture, while by night, it paints spaces and paths with light. Its elegant design make this human-scale column ideal for pedestrian zones, creating rhythmic sequences and emerging like a landmark when installed in groups. Bolt anchorage is used to secure LLUM-I to the pavement.

Architects Albert Viaplana and Helio Piñón designed LLUM-I in 1988 in conjunction with Escofet as part of the A-E-I-O-U VOCABULARY Collection.

The composition of these names implicitly contains the idea of creating a new vocabulary of components for Architects, the letter A in the series, to use in the modern city. The designers explain that each item is an individual response to the same issue: the confrontation between the neutral gravity of fluid concrete and the potential tension when it is adapted to different purposes.

Through its profile, BANC-U expresses the contrast of gravity on it's base against the levity of it's cross section; the LLUM-I sits on the ground and grows with the flow of artificial light until it finally falls to the ground; GAT-O is perhaps the best expression of the struggle between these two opposite forces: a mass of stone emerges from the ground, curving like a cat's back in a defensive posture; and TEST-E narrows until it loses its sense of dimension, marking the space like a small boat full of plants or flowers.