Janas, when the stone becomes light 8 May 2026 The Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of the University of Sassari presented the "Janas" project at the "Fuori Salone" in Milan, a light installation in onyx that intertwines design research, Sardinian cultural identity and material experimentation. After the prestigious success recorded in April in the Lombardy capital, the column returns to Sardinia from 29 to 31 May on the occasion of the “Make Fair Sardinia”, scheduled at the Archaeological Museum of Olbia: here, for logistical reasons, a partial 3D reconstruction will be brought. The protagonists of the project are the Architecture students Francesco Capula, Agostino Coccoi and the student Miriam Manca, the teacher Katia Gasparini and the Regina Marble Company of Verona. The work, already selected for the Marmomac 2025 research pavilion in Verona, takes its name from the mythological figures of the Sardinian tradition and transfers an archaic imagery into a contemporary architectural language. The morphology of the installation develops vertically according to a modular logic inspired by metaball , organic shapes that simulate drops in attraction and cohesion, giving life to a totem column in which each element, slightly rotated with respect to the central axis, generates variations in section and profile. The heart of the project is the dialogue between light and matter: the internal lighting enhances the veins, transparencies and colors of the onyx, transforming the stone into an active surface capable of diffusing, shielding or shaving the light. The flexibility of the configurations can transform Janas into a lamp, column, screening element, wall, sculpture. In Janas the stone transforms from a covering into a three-dimensional element that transfigures into light and constructs space.