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Iara Santos

Lighting designer and design team lead

Seven years in architectural lighting. I do photometric design, fixture and control specification, and the full documentation set that gets a lighting project built. I lead a six-person team through roughly 250 active projects a year on the manufacturer side, across residential, commercial, corporate, institutional and healthcare.

If your studio has more projects than documentation capacity, that is the gap I fill.

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Iara Santos reviewing a lighting project on a tablet. — Iara Santos · Architect & Lighting Designer

7Years in architectural lighting

250Active projects a year, led

6Designers coordinated

150+Projects delivered at studio level

2019Working fully remote since

Photometric design

DIALux Evo · Relux · AGi32 · false-colour analysis · IES and EULUMDAT file analysis · illuminance verification by zone · UGR and glare control · uniformity ratios · LPD targets

Documentation

AutoCAD · reflected ceiling plans · circuiting and control layouts · fixture schedules · specification packages · quantity takeoffs for quotation · SketchUp + LayOut · Enscape · Revit (in progress)

Controls

DALI · 0–10V · Casambi · Lutron · tunable white and scene programming · dimming and switching coordinated with electrical scope

Standards

EN 12464-1 and -2 · ISO/CIE 8995-1 · IES Lighting Handbook and RP series · ADA · IBC · lighting calculations for LEED-targeted projects

Metric and imperial, natively

Feet-and-inches with AFF, or millimetres to finished floor. Footcandles or lux. ARCH/ANSI sheets at 1/4" = 1'-0", or ISO A-series at 1:50. No conversion lag.

Available for remote lighting work across U.S. and European time zones.

I have worked fully remote and async-first since 2019. I manage full project phases on my own, from brief through construction close-out, and coordinate with architects, contractors and MEP consultants across time zones.

Open to contract, freelance and long-term engagements. If what you see here is the kind of thinking and documentation your team needs, write to me.

U.S.ET · CT · MT · PT

EuropeCET · 7–8h overlap

Async-firstWritten, documented

Email iarasantos.is@icloud.com