Maria Filotti Theatre
The Maria Filotti Theatre, or the Rally Theatre, was inaugurated in 1864 in Brăila, Romania. This building has been named after the actress Maria Filotti since 1905. It has undergone many changes over the years and has been included in the UNESCO heritage. We are proud to have worked on this architectural lighting project for the Maria Filotti Theatre.
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History& Architecture
In 1900, the owners changed. The first owner Ianache Rally came under the control of Dumitru Ionescu. Since then, we have been an inn described as “a solid wall building, invalid in iron sheets, with 3 floors, having on the bottom floor twelve large and small shops in front of St. Archangels square and Calea Regală, with several rooms, […], three large entrances with marble stairs, on the first floor from above, having cellars below“. The second floor includes “eighteen large and small rooms of which two large halls for dancing and one for the theatre with boxes and stage and other small rooms, such as two large entrances with marble stairs“, and on the third floor “twenty and three rooms, nineteen of which are for the hotel, a long hall and two entrances and from the yard two wall buildings, one covered with iron sheets, in which is the machine for the electric light installation and one for the printing press wrapped in sheets“.
Lighting Desing Project
The new architectural lighting for Maria Filotti Theatre was intended to reproduce the beauty of the building at night. The words that best characterize this project are consistent with the baroque architecture of the building: symmetry and rhythmicity. The construction of a huge volume is very visible from the entire square, and by implementing this architectural lighting, we can say that the atmosphere in the area has radically changed. I also couldn’t leave the sumptuous setting in the dark.