From home & building automation to energy management, from e-mobility to intelligent lighting, and advanced installation systems: all GEWISS solutions come together to shape the city of the future
ChorusLife is the Smart District in Bergamo, located in the heart of the Santa Caterina neighborhood, envisioned by Cavaliere del Lavoro Domenico Bosatelli and designed by architect Joseph Di Pasquale. An innovative model of urban regeneration and one of the most significant projects of its kind in Italy, it has transformed the former OTE industrial area into a vibrant space for life and social interaction. Beyond innovation, ChorusLife is a showcase of GEWISS’s vision: an integrated ecosystem where technology, sustainability, and comfort converge to redefine the smart city concept. All GEWISS solutions come to life in this single space—home & building automation, energy management, e-mobility, intelligent lighting, and advanced installation systems—demonstrating their value across key applications such as city landscapes, residential, hospitality, retail, sport, and parking.
ChorusLife is an innovation model integrating smart residences, sustainable mobility, advanced services, and connected public spaces. It includes a 74-apartment residence (the city’s first build-to-rent project), a 107-room four-star superior hotel branded Radisson, the ChorusLife Arena with a 6,500-seat multifunctional space, a soon-to-open Urban SPA and 8,000 sqm wellness center, over 10,000 sqm of commercial and dining areas, an underground parking garage with 1,100 spaces, and a series of architecturally distinctive plazas designed to foster social interaction.
At the core of ChorusLife lies the Arena, conceived as a large covered square and featuring one of the largest dynamic façades in the world (200 meters long and 15 meters high), which appears to breathe thanks to its patented “vibrant skin” designed by architect Joseph Di Pasquale. This 6,500-seat multifunctional venue is built to host high-profile sports events and entertainment performances. Due to its various intended uses, the Arena posed particularly complex lighting requirements, demanding a design capable of meeting the most stringent international standards set by FIBA (basketball), FIVB (volleyball), and ATP (tennis). The lighting needed to ensure optimal performance and ideal conditions for both athletes and television broadcasting, aligned with TLCI and HDTV standards.
The ChorusLife Arena is equipped with an advanced system of LED projectors managed via DMX protocol, allowing for the creation of dynamic lighting scenarios that adapt precisely to the needs of sports events, musical shows, and theatrical performances. This technology makes it possible to tailor the lighting to the desired atmosphere, enhancing every performance with immersive scenic effects. For the Arena’s interiors, lighting was provided by Performance in Lighting—an international benchmark in the lighting industry and part of the GEWISS Group since 2023.
The result is a perfect blend of efficiency and aesthetic refinement, enabling balanced and welcoming lighting in the common areas and access paths, improving the guest experience from the very first moment. Outside, URBAN [O3] pole-mounted lighting systems and LED fixtures wrap the Arena in light, emphasizing its architectural lines and highlighting its contemporary design. Additionally, the installation of innovative videomapping solutions has transformed surfaces into digital canvases, enabling visually powerful and communicative scenic customizations. With 106 GEWISS SMART [PRO] projectors, optimized energy consumption of 67 kW, and a design focused on energy savings, the Arena stands out for innovation and sustainability.
ChorusLife represents one of the most advanced engineering and architectural achievements, with over 7,000 technical drawings developed solely for the plant design. This innovative urban complex integrates a wide range of functions—including commercial areas, residential units, a hotel, an arena, a spa, a medical center, public plazas, shared spaces, and parking facilities—offering a modern and interconnected vision of the smart city of the future.
The ChorusLife parking facility is not just a car park but a true technological hub. In addition to serving as the main access point to the entire complex, it features an advanced lighting system with approximately 2,000 interconnected lamps monitored centrally, allowing for optimized maintenance management. The lighting system automatically adjusts brightness based on the presence of people or vehicles, ensuring significant energy savings. Below the parking level are the technical rooms, which serve as the nerve center of ChorusLife’s energy system. Electricity supplied by ENEL is distributed throughout the complex via next-generation transformers and electrical panels.
In this setting, watertight junction boxes in technopolymer (44 CE series) and metal (GW CONNECT series) are fully utilized, along with modular and configurable distribution boards from the CVX 160 and QDX 630 series, designed for maximum reliability and service continuity even in critical environments. The entire energy protection and management infrastructure is completed by the 90 MCB line of high-performance modular circuit breakers, essential to ensuring system safety under any operating conditions. This system architecture is a testament to GEWISS’s ability to integrate efficiency, safety, and technological innovation into the supporting infrastructures of a project of this magnitude.
The apartments at ChorusLife have been designed with an advanced technological infrastructure that ensures maximum efficiency and easy maintenance. GEWISS home automation systems manage lighting, blinds, temperature, and alarms through a touchscreen interface that also functions as a video intercom. The technological core of the homes lies in GEWISS’s KNX solutions, the international standard for intelligent building automation, which allow every residential function to be orchestrated based on principles of energy efficiency, comfort, and safety.
The automation components are integrated through CHORUS series devices, which combine design, functionality, and modularity, offering a wide range of plates and controls suitable for every residential style. A distinctive feature is the possibility of conducting maintenance without entering the apartments, thanks to external boiserie panels that house the technology cabinets. These technical spaces also incorporate SYSTEM line solutions, designed for optimal organization and management of modular devices, as well as signal and energy distribution in residential environments with high system density. Additionally, the overload management system prevents power meter disconnection during peak consumption, while intelligent residual current devices analyze the network and automatically reset in case of accidental trips.
ChorusLife has been designed with a unified technological platform open to future integrations, ensuring that users benefit from homes that are always cutting-edge and adaptable to upcoming innovations.
The ChorusLife hotel—a four-star superior property under the prestigious Radisson brand—has been designed with the same advanced technological approach as the residential units but with added management complexity. The systems enable smart energy savings by automatically deactivating lighting and climate control in unoccupied rooms. Design also plays a central role: CHORUS series plates were selected for their elegant and contemporary aesthetics, perfectly aligned with the sophisticated hotel interiors. The wide range of finishes—from the ICE glass collection to the LUX and EGO versions—allowed for the customization of rooms and shared areas to suit different architectural needs, integrating automation controls discreetly and consistently. Behind the scenes, GEWISS infrastructure ensures safety, service continuity, and reliability. Throughout the building—including the restaurant kitchens, technical rooms, laundry areas, and plant control centers—wall-mounted switchboards from the 40 CD and CVX 160 series were installed, chosen for their robustness and modularity, ideal for commercial settings.
Energy distribution is supported by 44 CE junction boxes that offer high IP protection even in humid or vapor-prone environments like professional kitchens. For cable routing, MAVIL cable tray systems were used—galvanized or painted—ensuring safe, orderly, and inspectable installations.
In technical rooms and high-reliability power points, IEC 309 HP plugs and sockets were used, meeting international standards and withstanding challenging environmental conditions. The electrical system is completed by protective conduit systems—rigid (RK), bendable (FK), and flexible (DF)—ensuring safe and compliant installation in every part of the building.
The plazas and common areas of ChorusLife were designed with smart, multifunctional lighting. The custom-designed lighting poles also host additional technologies such as Wi-Fi, cameras, speakers, and geolocation systems.
To ensure maximum energy efficiency, kilometers of conduits and distribution systems were installed, supported by rugged electrical panels that guarantee continuous energy supply even under adverse weather conditions.
ChorusLife is much more than an urban project: it is the tangible demonstration of GEWISS’s ability to turn a vision into reality. A place where technology interacts with architecture, every solution meets a real need, and every detail is designed with people’s well-being in mind. In this Smart District—among the most advanced in Europe—GEWISS has orchestrated an integrated ecosystem of energy, automation, lighting, and mobility, proving its capacity to meet the most complex challenges of our time.
From residences to public spaces, from the Arena to the parking facility, every environment has been designed to be connected, safe, efficient, and ready for the future. ChorusLife embodies GEWISS’s commitment to building a future in which technology and humanity coexist harmoniously, offering a replicable model of how the city of tomorrow can already be lived today.
