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Poetry and Light
An eclectic space gets an eclectic lighting treatment from Light Poetic at the Mahá Club in Beijing.
The 3,600 square metre Mahá Club, is a high end project comprising a mixture of public, food and beverage, multifunction rooms and spa and treatment areas. It’s located in the heart of the most popular residential area in Beijing and offers guests a diverse program of activities from morning to late night.
Using simple but tightly integrated luminaires, the lighting strategy approach makes the overall design elements in harmony.
Linear LED lights are concealed in rhythm within the wall and ceiling to enhance the form and space character. These create eye-catching focal points through all the diverse service areas and and allow each individual area its own sense of place.
The focal points, lighting layers and the balance are carefully arranged and composed for a pleasant visual experience. The overall lighting mood is set to be soft, warm, calm, relaxing, welcoming, sophisticated, and the lighting levels are in balance and harmony with the luxury experience where guests can feel relaxed and calm, and most importantly enjoy themselves.
This project is a holistic lighting design scope; besides architectural lighting, FF&E lightings are 90 per cent customdesigned by the lighting designer and are carefully arranged to create surprises in the space while matching the design theme.
High-CRI LED light sources with a good R9 composition and intuitive lighting control technology were used in this project. All the lighting circuits are connected to a dimming system with the scenes programmable from day to night.
Architectural lighting in daylight zones is switched off during daytime for energy saving and in balance with artificial lighting in no daylight areas. Lighting scenes are set to be in a smooth transition and in good brightness composition, dimmed down to 20 percent average at late night.
Human-centric lighting was also considered in this project to ensure the guests' wellbeing. The colour temperature of all linear lighting is dimmed to very warm at night to create a cozy and relaxing atmosphere.
Light Poetic’s design process begins with recognising the space and its key design elements in collaboration with architects, interior designers and its clients.
It says that its efforts as lighting designers are to search for the ‘greatest potential’ and ideas to illuminate the space with a balance of soft and bold, direct and indirect, subtle and vibrant, light and shadow, decorative and architectural.
‘The human touch is significant for us,’ says the firm. ‘We design for humanity and enjoy having our clients see the light poetically and meaningfully.’
Light Poetic says that its efforts as lighting designers are to search for the ‘greatest potential’ and ideas to illuminate the space with a balance of soft and bold, direct and indirect, subtle and vibrant, light and shadow, decorative and architectural.
PROJECT CREDITS
Company: Light Poetic International
Lead Designers: Ya-Hui Cheng, Xin Mei Zeng
Client: Hopson Development Holdings Limited
Photographs: Jonathan Leijonhufvud, Ya-Hui Cheng
