Hotel Lighting as a Brand Experience
You won’t remember the lux value of a hotel.
You remember how it made you feel.
Hotel lighting is not background. It is atmosphere, attitude, identity. It decides whether a place feels calm or hectic, generous or distant, intimate or anonymous. And it does so quietly. Almost invisibly.
Daylight in the Office: How Natural Lighting Transforms Workspaces
Daylight is one of the most powerful yet most delicate resources in the office. It works quietly, almost unnoticed, and still decisively shapes how we perceive spaces, how long we stay focused, and how comfortable we feel. An office with well-guided daylight does not explain itself. You feel it. Spaces appear more open, clearer, calmer. Work feels less exhausting. Time seems to pass differently.
Adaptive Light Systems – The Loop for the Ahrend x Office Group Showroom in Düsseldorf
A Workspace that Evolves – Light that Responds
How can light become part of a system that transforms not just spaces, but mindsets?
In “The Loop,” Studio De Schutter demonstrates how adaptive light systems connect sustainability, atmosphere, and identity, without compromising between design and efficiency.
Lighting Control: A Case Study on the Ahrend x Office Group
How can sustainability, technology and atmosphere coexist within an existing building?
The answer lies in the precise control of light.
For the new Ahrend x Office Group showroom in Düsseldorf, Studio De Schutter developed a lighting concept that saves energy and adapts flexibly through smart Casambi control – from workplace to consultation to events.

