A room with no window is a room people leave. LIGHTGLASS builds a fixture that reads as one.

It installs like a window and works like a luminaire: a lit aperture in a wall or ceiling, sized and detailed as glazing rather than as a light. The company is a Philadelphia team of engineers and scientists working on what windowless space does to the people in it.

The market is bigger than it sounds. Basements, interior offices, below-grade meeting rooms, transit, healthcare corridors. Windowless floor area runs to billions of square feet, and the people in it are indoors for almost all of their day

Three images labelled Creates Depth, Simulates Nature and Promotes Well-being, above a colour tuning scale running from 2700 to 6500 Kelvin

Their products can use automatic time-clock based controls, and be on a schedule to change intensity and colour temperature throughout the day, emulating the sunlight outside.

This makes it a great solution to achieve circadian lighting and contribute to obtaining WELL Building Standard.

A hospital patient room with a caregiver at a computer, a patient in bed and a visitor seated alongside, lit by recessed ceiling lighting and daylight from a window

Lightglass Lighting brings daylight to the Childrens Hospital of Philidelphia

Their products can be made in any rectangular size up to 4′ x 8′, and are available in various finish colour options (including custom!). The face lights evenly, with no hot spots and no visible pixels, which is the whole reason it reads as a window rather than a lit panel. Here’s a variety of the possible applications:

Skylight

Mount or recess LIGHTGLASS into the ceiling and illuminate any room with the feeling of sunlight. Skyglass applications come with a shroud to create the depth and form factor of a real skylight without needing a hole in the roof.

A meeting room with a glowing skylight-effect panel set into the ceiling, shown beside a diagram of the same panel in a plain white room

Clerestory

Transform light-deprived basements or internal rooms into bright and spacious environments by recessing LIGHTGLASS into the top of a wall.

A diagram of a room with an illuminated panel high on the wall, shown beside a retail interior using the same effect

In-Wall

Recess LIGHTGLASS into a wall and it will look and feel like a window. Add muntins to 2×4 LIGHTGLASS for added detail, change colour temperature through the day, and bring the feelings of energy and well-being into any space.

A library-style room with a glowing window-effect panel between bookshelves, shown beside a diagram of the panel set into a wall

Portal

Play with simulated daylight using our 1×1 blocks of LIGHTGLASS. Create arrays in different shapes and sizes, or singular portals of light.

A diagram of a room with several small square glowing panels scattered across the walls, shown beside a lounge interior using the same effect

Here’s the technology behind the line.

An exploded technical diagram of an illuminated panel frame, annotated Pure, Customizable, Integrated, Durable and Depth

Visit their website to browse through some of their existing projects. If you have any questions about LIGHTGLASS, or would like to learn more please reach out to your Flux salesperson anytime!

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