Lighting Masterplan
São Paulo currently has a 12-million inhabitant population and 670,000 public lighting luminous points, that means a 1 to 18 ratio of luminous points per inhabitant. In 2012, with the goal of setting up a lighting strategy to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, the city authorities initiated a citywide lighting masterplan study.
The São Paulo lighting masterplan aimed to create a nightscape that would reveal the unique identity of the Brazilian megalopolis, its monumental natural site and the Ghost Rivers that have become invisible in the city center. Important issues to deal with as well were the insertion in the nocturnal skyline of a large number of tower buildings, the need to imagine unique, varied pedestrian and social light atmospheres for the many districts, and to highlight the morphology of the city at night while reducing its energy consumption.