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Mapei Stadium, Italy: A Complete Lighting Solution Up to the Challenge

Altis wins at Mapei Stadium, Italy
Client
Mapei Group
Project location
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Project date
2024
Photography
Alessandro Fiocchi
Arbeta Manchester

LIGHTING FOR FAN ENGAGEMENT

The Mapei Stadium - Città del Tricolore in Reggio Emilia is famously recognised as one of the best playing fields in Italy. A modern facility that has been equipped with a state-of-the-art lighting system, thanks to the technical and management support of Thorn Lighting.
We ensured the best functional lighting of the playing field, of course! But also scenes and light effects for public entertainment, as well as the enhancement of the facility's external facade.
If "We know lighting, inside out!" is the premise with which we at Thorn Lighting face the challenges of the market, Mapei Stadium made these words concrete and tangible! Thanks to the "Turnkey" service entrusted to the client, we supervised every phase of the project, meeting stringent deadlines and complex challenges.

OUR SOLUTIONS FOR MAPEI STADIUM

Thorn Lighting, partner of choice for Mapei

Partner of Choice

Over the last ten years, Mapei Group has invested more than 20 million euros in improving and modernising the stadium, transforming it into a facility of the highest international standards and one of the most popular in the Serie A Championship.
The decision to entrust the entire relighting project to Thorn was based on three essential ingredients: competence, creativity and reliability. Our tangible actions in the area of sustainability were also recognised, which allowed us to become Partner of Choice. The commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is mutually shared by Zumtobel Group and Mapei Group in their respective market segments.
Pitch lighting from Thorn at Mapei Stadium

UP TO THE CHALLENGE

RELIABILITY - With the championship just around the corner, it was essential to meet stringent delivery and installation deadlines to. First was the removal and disposal of the existing lighting system, installation of the new Thorn Altis floodlights and luminaires for the lighting show, as well as for the external façade of the stadium. The commissioning phase was then essential, with the management of scenarios and lighting in accordance with the client's ideas and requirements. As with any highly complex installation, a "live" verification phase must finally be considered, necessary to highlight potential issues that can only be verified when the system is in operation.
CREATIVITY - The part we love! The existing poles clashed with the modernity of the remaining installation, and the client had the option of removing them. Our consultancy made it possible to reverse the perspective: using our flexible Mystrid Flex RGBW light lines we enhanced the towers, making them themselves a complementary scenic element of the show. Watching a match at the Mapei Stadium today means being immersed in a spectacle of light and colour with a high experiential value.
COMPETENCE - Each phase of the project requires specific competences and orchestration: project management for the turnkey lighting design in compliance with the stringent UEFA requirements for 'Elite A' pitches, the creation of light effects consistent with the architecture of the space and attentive to light pollution. In the words of Tarcisio Mazza, Head of Services & Solutions at ZG Italy, the Mapei Stadium project "demonstrated the ability of the Zumtobel Group and its partners to successfully tackle complex challenges in terms of both implementation and timing".

"The brief was to make the structure versatile. A facility that is now unique thanks also to the use of the light towers as architectural elements in their own right". 
Andrea Lorenzi, Facility Manager of Mapei Stadium, explains Thorn's project brief.

A SNAPSHOT OF MAPEI STADIUM

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Football Technical Guide (EN)
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Football Technical Guide (IT)
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Football Technical Guide (DE)
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Football Technical Guide (FR)
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Football Technical Guide (ES)
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Professional Stadiums Brochure (EN)
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Professional Stadiums Brochure (IT)
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Professional Stadiums Brochure (DE)
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Professional Stadiums Brochure (FR)
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Professional Stadiums Brochure (ES)
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