The lighting design project of the Royale Sainte Marie church, a listed building built in the 19th century, revolves around its characteristic Romanesque-Byzantine dome. This dome, an important feature of the Brussels urban landscape, can be seen from many viewpoints, such as the perspective of the Rue Royale.
The lighting therefore had to be sufficiently powerful on the upper parts of the church and its dome to ensure its visibility in the night-time landscape, and then more subtle and detailed on the sides of the octagon and the many buttresses and flying buttresses. This second level of lighting provides a softer, more complex reading, revealing many details that can be seen from the square as you walk around the church. The foot of the building is lit more soberly by a few well-concealed spotlights and the backlighting of lanterns placed all around, to provide a visual foundation to the whole.
Most of the projectors are concealed on the building, and those illuminating the upper parts of the dome are mounted invisibly on surrounding facades, thanks to anti-glare accessories and very narrow light beams.
