Winner Best of Innovation CES
Recognized for establishing Digital Shading as a new infrastructural discipline.
87% improved passenger experience
Measured impact at Milan Linate Airport through independent user research.
Programmable Sunlight
Improves comfort, enhances experience, and unlocks value through content.
Environmental friction
In high-traffic environments, brightness, heat and intrusive visual noise shape how people move, wait and respond. When environmental stress rises, attention drops, waiting feels longer and communication becomes harder to absorb.
These effects are rarely treated as infrastructure challenges. Instead, additional signage, screens or temporary fixes are layered onto spaces where the underlying conditions remain unchanged.
Integration Models
Digital Shading is deployed as a secondary architectural layer. Each configuration preserves the primary facade while enabling programmable environmental control and spatial narrative.
Overlay Curtain
A suspended secondary glass layer positioned in front of existing glazing. Ideal for retrofit projects requiring rapid deployment without impacting the building envelope.
Independent Frame
A self-supporting system structurally separated from the primary facade. Suitable for environments where load capacity or structural constraints require full independence.
Profile-Integrated
Integrated within major facade systems for new builds or large-scale renovations. Designed for long-term architectural coherence and infrastructural planning.
Built for complex environments
Calm and clarity in operational complexity
Regulate environmental stress during peak passenger flow while improving wayfinding, dwell quality and communication effectiveness. Designed for infrastructure-led environments where performance metrics matter.
Turn transition into experience
Transform waiting and circulation zones into immersive spatial moments while maintaining comfort and environmental control. Reinforce narrative without disrupting architectural coherence.
Atmosphere, embedded into architecture
Shape exposure and brightness to elevate arrival moments, communal spaces and brand identity. Deliver comfort and narrative without screens or visual clutter.
(01) Protection
Protection establishes the physical and perceptual conditions required for performance. By regulating glare, heat and excessive brightness at facade level, Digital Shading reduces environmental stress before it becomes visible.
When comfort is stabilised, attention improves, perceived waiting time decreases and spatial clarity increases. Protection is not an add-on. It is the infrastructural foundation upon which experience and behaviour depend.
(02) Experience
Once environmental conditions are regulated, architecture becomes receptive to expression. Digital Shading transforms exposure into a programmable narrative surface that reinforces identity, atmosphere and spatial coherence.
Rather than adding screens or signage, experience is embedded into the architectural layer itself. The result is a space that feels intentional, immersive and aligned with its operational context.
(03) Behavioural influence
When protection and experience operate together, behaviour shifts naturally. Movement becomes more intuitive, attention stabilises and communication becomes more effective.
Digital Shading guides without instructing. By shaping environmental conditions rather than issuing commands, it influences flow, dwell quality and perception at scale. Behavioural impact is not imposed. It emerges from regulated conditions.
“Innovations like this show how future façades will integrate multiple functions, transforming glass from a static material into an active architectural element.”
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Knaack
Professor of Façade Design + Engineering
TU Delft / TU Darmstadt
“This project has been tested in our Living Lab for several years and even formed the basis of a master’s thesis on biophilic glare control. It demonstrates how glass can serve as a responsive digital layer in architecture, managing daylight while adding a programmable visual dimension to the façade. Always a success during our on-site tours.”
Tim Jonathan
Manager Operations & Realisations
The Green Village – TU Delft
Digital Shading was exactly the kind of innovation we wanted to support at Rotterdam The Hague Airport: practical, visible, and focused on improving the passenger experience. It showed how innovation can strengthen both comfort and identity within the airport environment.
Ron Louwerse
Former CEO Rotterdam The Hague Airport
From feasibility to operation
in 6 to 14 weeks
We follow a structured three-phase model designed for clarity, speed and minimal operational disruption.
2-4 weeks
(01) Define
Feasibility assessment based on architectural drawings, budget alignment and stakeholder coordination. We determine the appropriate integration model and establish a clear go or no-go decision before proceeding.
4-10 weeks
(02) Build
Hardware preparation, software configuration and content development take place primarily off-site. On-site integration is streamlined to limit disruption, particularly in airports, hospitality and other high-traffic environments.
Ongoing
(03) Operate
Following installation, the system is calibrated and monitored. Environmental performance and spatial content are continuously optimized to maintain measurable behavioural and operational impact.
Start your project assessment
Tell us about your environment, project stage and the challenges you aim to address. Our team will evaluate feasibility, integration path and potential impact based on your specific architectural and operational context.
Each assessment is tailored, discreet and grounded in measurable performance outcomes.
“Digital Shading is not about adding media to architecture. It is about restoring environmental control as the foundation for experience and behaviour.”
Remco Veenbrink
Founder & CEO Signilux
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“Digital Shading is not about adding media to architecture. It is about restoring environmental control as the foundation for experience and behaviour.”
Remco Veenbrink
Founder & CEO Signilux
Frequently asked questions
Signilux is a programmable secondary tintable glass layer that combines glare control, radiant comfort, and communication in one architectural surface.
Where conventional signage adds another object to the terminal, Signilux uses the façade itself. Segment by segment, the glass can create patterns, guidance, and messaging in the surface passengers already see.
Passenger stress is often triggered by the environment before it becomes a behavioural problem. Glare, radiant heat, and visual overload make people less receptive to information.
Signilux improves those conditions at the façade itself, making the terminal easier to read and more comfortable to occupy. That helps passengers process wayfinding, gate changes, and other cues more calmly.
Signilux helps airports manage passenger flow through the existing terminal more effectively. By
turning the façade into a communication layer, it can guide movement earlier and over longer
distances than small perpendicular screens.
Because the information sits in the architectural surface passengers naturally face, messages remain visible across more of the journey through the space.
That makes the façade useful for dynamic wayfinding, pacing cues, and zone-based information that support smoother movement through the terminal.
Connected to live operational data, Signilux can support flow management, reduce the need for
manual intervention, and improve throughput within the existing footprint.
Result: clearer guidance through the architecture itself, with less dependence on added screens or staff intervention.
Signilux influences behaviour by making the terminal easier to read and more comfortable to use. A clearer, calmer environment helps passengers move with more confidence and less hesitation.
That same surface can carry brand messages, retail prompts, and contextual communication without introducing another visual layer into the space.
Airports are investing in passenger experience, digital communication, and operational intelligence at the same time. Signilux brings those priorities together in one architectural layer.
Rather than adding another standalone system, it turns glazed surfaces into programmable
infrastructure for comfort, wayfinding, atmosphere, and communication.
Signilux controls daylight. It does not emit coloured light.
The image is created by modulating transparency across the glass, so what appears is monochrome: patterns, gradients, text, and motion in shades of grey.
During the day, daylight provides the backlight. In low-light conditions, the façade can be paired with interior illumination so information and wayfinding remain visible.
Result: a calm, legible surface that communicates through light rather than through a conventional screen.
Signilux is modular and designed to scale with the architecture.
In most airport applications it is installed as a secondary façade in front of existing glazing. That avoids replacement of the primary façade and allows installation with minimal disruption.
Modules are networked so large surfaces behave as one coordinated layer while remaining
serviceable panel by panel.
This makes it possible to start with one zone and expand toward larger connected surfaces over time.
Result: Signilux can range from a local intervention to a terminal-scale glass surface without changing the building envelope.
Signilux improves comfort at glazed façades by reducing radiant heat on occupants and eliminating glare.
Installed as a secondary interior façade, it intercepts solar radiation behind the primary glass and makes perimeter zones more comfortable to use. In some cases, this can reduce the need for localised spot cooling near the façade.
Its primary value lies in comfort, glare control, and spatial quality rather than in a major reduction of overall HVAC demand.
