Light+Architecture

Virgin Atlantic teamed up with VW + BS studio to shape a new experience for passengers riding the airline 30 000 feet in the air. The first time the new upper class bar and cabin enchanted its guests was this spring, on a route from London to New York. This new aircraft hospitality space concept was created to encourage social interaction between passengers in an innovative atmosphere built for a plane with the strictest safety regulations. Virgin Atlantic’s New Upper Class Bar And Cabin is the sophisticated result of creative thinking based on giving the design studio free hand to redesign one of Virgin’s planes.

When Virgin Atlantic sums up this projects, they describe it as a mixture of insight into the client’s needs and wishes, creativity and expert engineering. A futuristic design like this one, influenced by the angled positioning of interior spaces, creates a unique set of social spaces, while the espresso colored leather seats offer a comfortable place to rest. The design lines and colors with RGB lighting effects creates different moods. 

French designer Paul Coudamy has taken airbus windows and recycled them to create a modular lighting concept. The 'F-light' is constructed from the walls / windows cabin of an airbus A300, whereby the engineered curves, windows and insulation of the airplane takes on a second life as a functional lighting structure. Designed for flown mobilier airline, the result is a luminous ceiling that forms a dome-like shell. Modularity of the system, allows the panels to be put together according to one's desired size. Each window is outfitted with light halos which provides a diffuse and even luminosity over the entire object's surface. A second indirect lighting mounted on the structure is reflected by the original silver insulation.