A portfolio of real work
AL SHOLA ALMODEA designs, supplies and installs lighting. All three, on every project, from one company — which is unusual enough in this market to be the reason most of the work below came to us. What changes between a villa, a mosque and a shopping centre is rarely the fittings. It is the one constraint that decides everything else, and finding it early is most of the job.
On a tower interior that constraint is repetition. One apartment type is drawn once and then built on every floor it appears on, so a decision about downlight spacing is never a decision about one ceiling. On a public landscape it is the opposite — most of the site is meant to stay dark, and the design is what you leave alone. In a shopping centre the corridor has to sit deliberately below its tenants, or every shopfront looks flat. In a mosque it is the neighbours’ windows and the prayer calendar. None of those transfer.
The work is grouped into the eight sectors below because that is how the constraints group, not because it is how a brochure would divide them. Several projects sit in two: a tower lit only on its elevation has its full story under facade lighting and is listed again under towers, and its case study keeps one home.
Each project is written up as it was built — the problem the building set, what the photographs actually show, and how work of that kind gets installed. Where something is not evidenced, it is not claimed: no invented dates, no invented values, and no client testimonials we cannot stand behind. Some pages are short because the project was short, and a few are short because we hold only two photographs of it.
Start with the sector closest to your own project. Every sector page opens with what actually governs that kind of work, before it shows a single photograph. It is worth reading even if none of the projects on it look like yours. We work across all seven emirates from a showroom in Industrial Area 7, Sharjah, with most work in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
Each sector has its own page, and each project on it is written up as it was built.
Residential, Dubai and Abu Dhabi
Facades, pools, gardens and interiors on private houses, where the fittings are meant to disappear and only the light is supposed to show.
Elevations across the emirates
Towers and buildings lit on the outside only: edges and crowns, perforated screens, curved balcony fronts, and the access problem that comes with all of them.
High-rise interiors and elevations, Dubai
Lobbies, serviced apartments and amenity floors inside high-rise buildings, where one room is drawn once and then built on every floor it appears on.
Public realm and grounds
Walkways, plazas and planting at development scale, where the first decision is which parts of the site are going to stay dark.
Retail display and pavilions
Display floors, service workshops and exhibition structures, lit so the merchandise reads, the faults show, and the fittings do neither.
Retail centres
Circulation, atria and facades for shopping centres, where the landlord’s scheme has to sit deliberately below its tenants.
Sports and fitness
Arenas, indoor schools and training floors, judged on uniformity across the surface and on glare from two quite different eye heights.
Places of worship
Elevations, screens and prayer halls, lit with restraint, and switched to the prayer calendar instead of a fixed clock.
The record behind the photos
The gallery is a sample. Behind it sits fifteen years of delivery across every emirate — the scale that lets one supplier own design, supply and installation on a project from drawing to handover.
Years of operation
Completed projects
Returning clients
UAE emirates served
Specialists
What we light, and with what
Each kind of project in the gallery draws on a different part of the catalogue. This is the capability behind the photographs — the product categories AL SHOLA ALMODEA specifies and installs for each sector.
Tower elevations and large frontages call for external and façade lighting with flood fittings that give a building a coherent night-time identity while keeping spill and upward light controlled.
Living spaces are layered from recessed downlights and directional spotlights, with chandeliers and pendants as feature pieces — warm, dimmable and glare-controlled.
Grounds and gardens are picked out with discreet up-lighting and pole and bollard fittings that light planting, paths and water features without flattening the scene.
Roads, access ways and shared surfaces are lit from poles and columns, with flood lighting for open areas — even, glare-controlled coverage built for long unattended service.
Fitness floors and display retail need high-output, even light: industrial fittings for volume, with spotlights and flexible track lighting to pick out equipment and merchandise.
Prayer halls and heritage frontages call for restraint: external lighting and architectural up-lighting that emphasise form and calm without harsh glare.
How the work gets delivered
The brief — from a developer, consultant, contractor or end client — is translated into a specification supported by the Luna Luce Italia catalogue. Sample fixtures, alternative options and clear documentation are produced at this stage.
Project quantities are issued from the catalogue with confirmed lead times and consolidated delivery to the UAE site. Substitutions, finish coordination and accessories are handled by the same project team that supported the specification.
Installation is carried out by AL SHOLA ALMODEA's in-house UAE team, working alongside the project's electrical and MEP contractors. Aiming, commissioning and on-site adjustment are part of the scope, so the lit result matches the design intent.
After handover, the 3-year warranty and after-sales support cover the asset's first phase of service. Replacement units are issued from UAE stock where available, handled by the same project team — no separate after-sales channel.
Discuss your project
Send the drawings and the scope. We will put together the lighting package — design, supply and installation — as a single contract from our Sharjah base.