“splinted lumen” starts from tradition, but in a different way; it tries with a theme that already exists in the experiences of the past, the rose window, but composes it in an unconventional way. The Basilica of Santa Croce’ rose window was the starting point. The concept imagines a rose window that falls and breaks into different pieces; each fragment creates a layer and re-reads the initial design only by overlapping light levels. It is also possible to compose the fragments in a different way to create as many scenarios; if positioned at different distances from each other, on the ground or suspended, they create tridimensional light effects; if assembled they form sculptural luminous bodies, different from the traditional two-dimension