ARCHITECTURAL SSL • Chronicling the Advancement of LED Lighting in the Built Environment
THE CATCH 22’S OF LIGHTING FOR THE HUMAN GOOD The promise of recent LED advances, including color tuning, is exciting, especially if it aids productivity or sleep. That said, no standards exist at this time, nor has science conclusively confirmed any such benefits.
DO NO HARM.
SSL BUZZ DOE tests color tuning in California GM jumps on LED; lighting healthcare lobbies; MGM Cotai wows in Macau; a Vietnamese take on color.
AT THE FRONT An underground enlightenment is underway, as former cave-like environments are being transformed into slick and stylish spaces.
SSL PROJECT At the newest exhibit at the New York Aquarium, LED illumination takes patrons on a shark hunt of lighting-inspired excitement.
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SEEING THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES Conversely, in figuring out LED’s impact on the biology of humans and animals, extreme criticisms must be taken with a grain of salt.
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DOE studies tunable lighting in California classrooms.
The AEC world is at a critical juncture in achieving 2030 carbon-reduction goals. By Jim Crockett
09 Outside In 39 Project Profile: Arup's lighting of the Lewis Center at Princeton embraces its sculptural character.
Transitioning the lighting arrival and entry experience at a children's hospital.
10 One of a Kind MGM's Macau hotel complex a "landscape-like mountain."
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48 SSL Observed SSL has come a long way objectively. It’s time to bring it up to speed subjectively. By Kevin Willmorth
"Lighting does matter— either to be embraced and enjoyed—or hated. It’s time the industry gets myopic about influencing the public at large to see emerging technologies as positively responsive to concerns and needs—not as we see it—but as they do."
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41 White Pages Scientifically evaluating the potential effect of LED on circadian response.
Where lighting is concerned, trying to establish a baseline as to what’s good for human good, can be a catch 22, especially if the goal is simply to create places that feel good. by Kevin Willmorth
20 At the Front: Glowing Underground No windows? No Problem. Artistic lighting is helping sub-surface spaces become architectural environments, with creations ranging from subtle to slick to glorious. by Vilma Barr
42 Advances Pendants, controls, in-ground lighting, sconces, emergency lighting, area lighting.
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our energy output—at the least the CO2 produced by our energy output. In our sister publication, Architectural Products, we just published a story examining where things are at in the state of the 2030 pledge. As could be expected, things are better, but not nearly on track to where they need to be. In researching the topic, I came across some lighting-related information that just hit me like a ton of bricks. AIA’s 2030 commitment sets
It’s not going too far out on a limb to note topics
a 25% savings goal for the gross sq. ft. (GSF)
of conversation between a lot of fathers and
weighted average of lighting power density
sons, is limited. Despite the fact that I like to
of interior projects. A couple of things: First,
talk—a lot—I know that was the case with mine,
I think that’s a woefully unambitious goal, as
God rest his soul, as it can be with my sons. One
such savings are achievable simply by lighting
subject that seemed to break the ice was history,
spaces well. In fact, AIA reported that of the 7100
particularly regarding shared books, movies or
interior projects tracked for its 2017 update, they
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TV shows. One such shared experience with both
had already achieved 23% LPD savings. That’s
my dad and my son involved Bernard Cornwell’s
like saying we’ve learned not to throw our pop
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Richard Sharpe series, which starred Sean Beane
cans into the trash… Yet here we are in 2019 with
of Game of Thrones fame on the TV side. Briefly,
digital illumination and controls technology that,
what was notable about the old BBC series was
for the most part, haven’t really even been taken
that the main character led a specialized group
out of the box, so to speak.
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In the great chain of building systems, lighting has been the red-headed step child. As the A/E community claws its way to trying to achieve noble, if unrealistic, 2030 energy and carbon reduction goals, lighting must play a bigger role, less we all find ourselves slipping into darkness.
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of soldiers in the Napoleonic wars—light infan-
Those who have cut their teeth on LED this
try—who were equipped with a revolutionary
past decade stand to be great champions in this
new tool: the rifle, which was far more accurate,
war against carbon. Yet I don’t think the general
with much greater range.
design community understands this. It’s time to
I bring this up because we’re all getting caught
get up, stand up, to paraphrase Bob Marley, and
up in a conflict, whether we know it or not, that
let the A/E world know the capabilities of the
will require specialists which the lighting com-
lighting community. In fact, I’d like to challenge
munity is uniquely positioned to supply. That
this industry to come up with an LPD savings
conflict is the sudden realization in the archi-
goal that’s more impactful, yet achievable.
tectural community that commitments to the
This pledge, of course, has to include bona
American Institute of Architecture’s 2030 pledge
fide incorporation, and commitment, to imple-
to significantly reduce the energy consumption
menting controls, the red-headed step sister to
of their clients’ buildings, for the most part, are
LED’s—and lighting’s as a whole—step-brother
woefully short of the benchmarks required to
status in the building system chain. No more. Do
address the world’s carbon emissions.
I have any volunteers?•
What does this mean? Tougher codes? Tougher designs? Probably both. Given the volume and frequency of 100-year storms that are occurring annually, it’s no surprise the A/E com-
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fluorescent-based systems. Researchers focused their efforts on three classrooms at Gold Ridge Elementary School in Folsom, Calif. Two of the classrooms involve students with autism spectrum disorders, so teachers wanted to see if tunable white lighting might aid these students’ performance; the other test case involved a general education fifth-grade class. The 24 existing fluorescent
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ABOVE: As these figures show, power usage remained constant across color temperatures of the tunable-white LED fixtures, both the 2×2 troffers and those used over classroom whiteboards (WB). Researchers found similar results during laboratory testing of a representative troffer fixture at varying dimming intensities.
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CARBON REDUCTION: TLED RETROFIT
Helping GM Lower its Carbon Footprint
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the fluorescent system required 1,336W, which could be halved to 668W using bi-level switching. The LED
Like many major corporations, GM has set some
system at full power drew 525W. So, if
significant sustainability targets for itself, includ-
both systems were operated at 100%
ing a goal of reducing its energy and carbon
intensity for the full school year, the
intensity by 20%, against its 2010 baseline perfor-
LED system would offer 46% energy
mance, by 2020. Upgrading fluorescent fixtures to
savings. Greater savings are possible
LEDs is one element in that plan, which recently
when dimming is considered. During
included installation of more than 25,000 replace-
the default settings for morning and
ment tubular LED (TLED) lamps from Starco in
afternoon, the LED fixtures operate at
the company’s Detroit Renaissance Center head-
52% intensity, resulting in a demand of 500 kWh—a 72% savings, vs. the fluorescent system operating at 100%
ABOVE: GM is saving $3M annually in energy savings by retrofitting its HQ with TLEDs.
quarters. This project is in addition to 20 other TLED upgrades that are saving the company more than $3 million in annual energy costs.•
intensity over the course of a year. A static-white LED system would offer greater savings, researchers
ARTFUL ILLUMINATION: MODULAR LED
noted, due to the power demand of the
Bringing Jewelry to Light
tunable controls—the DMX controls have a baseline power demand exceeding 3W, even when fixtures are
Lighting designer Michael Anastassiades says
switched off. This demand equated
his modular Arrangements system of geometric
to more than 25% of the load of the
light elements is inspired by an equal fascination
entire system. Turning off power to the
with jewelry—“One is designed to be worn on the
drivers would minimize such “phantom
body, whereas the other is made to decorate the
load,” but that move could mean less
space someone occupies,” he says. A temporary
control flexibility, a need for more
installation at the design retailer 10 Corso Como’s
controllers, or limits on deep dimming.
new New York City location brings that inspira-
The color characteristics of the
tion to life in three pieces of lighting sculpture.
LEDs remained consistent between
Co-developed with FLOS, Arrangements modules
luminaires and over the full dimming
can be combined in numerous ways, with each
range. However, in tracking the two
unit attaching to the previous element to create
measures—circadian stimulus and
glowing chains.•
equivalent melanopic lux—proposed for use in designs intended to support circadian rhythms, DOE found significant differences between measured values and suggested targets. Additionally, illuminance levels would need to rise to satisfy existing recommendations for these metrics, which would also raise energy demand proportionately. This expense wasn’t considered justifiable, since related student-performance benefits haven’t been firmly established. However, the currently installed systems are capable of meeting any future guidelines, should they be established.•
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LOBBY LIGHTING: ADDRESSING VARYING CEILINGS
Providing Welcoming Illumination to Ailing Children in Need Lighting designers with SMP Engineering had two goals in mind in their entry and lobby plans for BC Children’s Hospital’s new Teck Acute Care Centre in British Columbia: create a clear, consistent lighting scheme across varying ceiling heights that also emphasized a sense of welcome. Syrios SY806
Sternberg Lighting, Leading The Way Ahead.
pendants and SY810 surface-mount fixtures from Luminis helped them bring that dual vision to life. Sharing a common cylindrical form factor also emphasized the blurred line between inside and out emphasized in the architectural design developed by ZGF and HDR|CEI Architecture.•
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HOSPITALITY: FACADE ILLUMINATION
MGM COTAI Features Striking, One-of-a-Kind “Jewelry Box” Façade The creative use of Chinese decorative imagery has resulted in a striking facade that brilliantly illuminates the facade of the MGM COTAI in Macau. The structure, by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), encapsulates two hotel towers and a mansion. The stacked boxes are unlike any other building, combining architectural marvel and inspired lighting to create an iconic structure and dramatic spatial experience. “From the outset, we wanted to design a structure that would really stand out on the skyline,” said John Bushell, design principal at KPF, the New York- and London-based design architectural firm appointed for this project. “By utilizing a composition of similar elements and openings in between the buildings, we created a mountain landscape-like structure that allows for a variety of interpretations. The outside is striking both in daylight and at night with lots of dramatic spatial experiences within.” The $3.45 billion-dollar facility is the largest property, and the first private sector project, ever to achieve the China Green Building (Macau) Design Label Certification. Although the exterior is visually striking in the daylight, it offers an even more exceptional night-time experience thanks to dramatic lighting made possible by 60,000 LED fixtures that are part of an integrated lighting system spread across all four elevations of the towers. Architectural lighting designer Illuminating Concepts’ intent was to make the exterior’s metallic finishes glow, and create an elegant, yet distinctive presence. Challenges came in lighting the facade’s large surface area, which had no setback to light the tower from below; Illuminating Concepts addressed this with a lighting design solution that integrated custom lighting fixtures within the facade detailing. The fixtures, mounted
ABOVE: To control the exterior lighting, a custom DMX-RDM booster, and e:cue engines support the Dyna Graze and Dyna Drum HO fixtures. The specified Butler PRO DMX is an e:net to DMX512 interface for the e:cue Lighting Application Suite. It controls up to 16 DMX512 universes with 512 channels per universe and full RDM capabilities.
only on the bottom edge of each “facet,” uniformly illuminate the bottom, top and sides of the indi-
Acclaim Lighting provided the two major exterior
of the reasons why the HO DMX was specified for
vidual patterns.
light sources for the project that created high-
use in the north and south lobbies, as well as for
output, brilliant illuminations and superior color
landscape and pool deck lighting.
The designers worked with Acclaim Lighting
The Dyna Graze line, as a whole, offers multiple
to create a custom fixture. “By concealing the
rendering with high energy efficiency: 1) the
fixtures we were able to produce the dramatic
custom IP67 Dyna Graze Exterior HO DMX units
configurations, available in 1- and 4-ft. sections,
effect without interruption in the facade pattern,”
Stechshulte observed, and their standard, but
provides 1100 lumens per foot, and maintains
said Kelly Stechshulte, Illuminating Concepts
compact, Dyna Drum HO floodlight.
70% of its lumens at 150,000 hours. Featuring a
executive director. “Integrated fixture solutions
The custom IP67 built units are so durable,
built in DMX-RDM driver for control, the fixtures
such as this will continue to make large and more
that they can be temporarily submerged. This
were easily linked together in one chain using
complex facade lighting designs possible.”
provides extra flood protection, which was one
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DESIGN COMPETITIONS: LAMP
Inspired by Balance of Light In what might have been the final LAMP annual lighting design competition, judges selected the Mito Lighting Series, by designer Tom Fereday for Rakumba Lighting, as the entry most representative of the theme of “balance.” The series balances domed-shape, hand-finished stone or wood as shades, against precision-machined stems and other elements. A modular design allows for a range of configurations, including floor and sconce models.•
“BY CONCEALING THE FIXTURES WE WERE ABLE TO PRODUCE A DRAMATIC EFFECT WITHOUT INTERRUPTION IN THE FACADE PATTERN. INTEGRATED FIXTURE SOLUTIONS WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE LARGE AND COMPLEX FACADE LIGHTING POSSIBLE.” —KELLY STECHSHULTE, ILLUMINATING CONCEPTS
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SPACE CREATION: PLAZAS OF LIGHT
Circles Within Circles To bring new attention to what had previously been treated as a pass-through space on the campus of the Univ. of Chicago, landscape architects with Jacobs/Ryan Assocs. developed plans for a new 40-ft. square plaza. Realizing this new gathering place would need both lighting and a signature design flourish to act as a beacon, the firm turned to Primera Engineers to help them develop suspended circular lighting fixtures to serve both purposes. Arranged concentrically, with illumination provided by iLight’s Plexineon flexible LED solution, the installation has helped create a unique identity for the new plaza among students. “This project had very specific needs, and this product met every one,” says Deborah SetimelClair, Primera’s lighting studio manager. “It was really the perfect fixture for this application.”•
COLOR: DYNAMIC FACADE LIGHTING
Illuminating an Imperial Icon Vietnam’s most important historical and cultural monument, the ‘Imperial City’ of Hue has been spectacularly illuminated with Philips Color Kinetics technology by Signify. The thick stone walls of Hue’s fortress offered protection to citizens of the ‘Imperial City’ for nearly a century and a half. Once only accessible to royalty, the Imperial City has been revitalized with the latest lighting technology. The new illumination of the monument is not only to preserve and honor the historical value of the monument, but also to create a special attraction at night for tourists and locals alike. Bright pinks, deep purples and vivid greens are used to illuminate the walls and the impressive ‘Flag Tower’ that can be seen for miles along the Perfume River. The new lighting is able to create spectacular light shows that include the simulation of the firing of ‘cannons’ set in the walls of the tower. The LED lighting system is anticipated to be up to 75% more energy efficient than conventional lighting systems.•
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THE CATCH 22’S OF LIGHTING FOR THE HUMAN GOOD
DO NO HARM. By Kevin Willmorth, editor
In trying to sort through the myriad of trends and technologies impacting the world of LED lighting, be it color tuning in concert with health/productivity—or how the base spectrum of LEDs themselves impact sleep—trying to establish a baseline as to what’s good for human good, can be a catch 22, especially if the goal is simply to create places that feel good.
Determining the best approach to light-
light effect wildlife? Only then can the
light to include physiological, psycho-
ing for human good begins with defin-
question of priority be assigned to vari-
logical, and performance factors—and
ing what exactly that means. To some,
ous aspects of lighting design.
implications on natural surroundings—
“the human good” means addressing
That said, significant progress has
the impact of light on the entirety of
been made in understanding how artifi-
the planet—from wildlife and natural
cial light works beyond vision. Unfortu-
The Human Factor
surroundings, to occupants of spaces in
nately, health and biological extremists
Oddly, the evolution of technology has
every circumstance. To others, saving
use this new information to accuse
brought the world to a new level of
energy is king, with little direct con-
the lighting industry of negligence in
inclusion of human considerations.
sideration of the human good beyond
creating “toxic illuminance” for people
For more than a century, longevity and
providing an appropriate illumination
and especially animals. That is patently
energy utilization was the main driver
level. The underlying question unan-
absurd. However, if what has been
behind lighting product creation. In
swered, is to what level does lighting
learned over the last decade is not built
more recent history, concerns of color,
actually impact human health and well-
on, and applied to expand the focus of
color performance, and lighting perfor-
being, and to what extent does artificial
everyone involved in the selection of
mance factors—mainly limited
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to brightness, glare, and other elemental
ANIMAL- VS. HUMAN-FRIENDLY ILLUMINATION To adopt a more pro-animal outlook, more reddish-orange spectrum sources, such as those at the sea turtle-friendly Canaveral Cruise Terminal in Florida would be required, likely to the chagrin of most humans.
occupant impact factors—emerged. Today, the potential for lighting to reach beyond its roots into the realm of human-enhancing spatial experience and health support, is emerging as the next wave of design evolution. The question is whether the industry can look beyond its humble origins to realize a true transformation—or, will it just use tid-bits extracted from newly discovPhotos: Courtesy, Luminis’ MayaLED
ered science and understanding as foundations for marketing slogans and PowerPoint presentations, with little real action beyond profit making?
Driven by Confused Demand The infrastructure of lighting application is not well suited to integration of advanced consideration of lighting for human health and well-being, or mitigation of impact on wildlife surrounding human-occupied environments. The mechanics of lighting remains a rudimentary
understand the science of spectral power, the
too should be accepted at face value. However,
process of identifying what is to be lighted and
nuance of illumination levels, and character of
making these decisions without recognizing
to what level. Invariably, most of the work of
light sources involved, find the simplistic CCT-
the implication on energy use, and the related
“lighting” is about selecting products and creat-
based demand nonsense. Nocturnal wildlife can
human harm that energy production entails, the
ing some manner of plan or document for the
see 3000K just as well as 4000K, while the human
demand is spurious.
purpose of building the design as part of a larger
visual system’s mesopic and scotopic illuminance
project, verification of compliance to energy and
range is enhanced by spectral content that leans
between scientific knowledge, and opinions
safety codes, and outlining controls and energy
toward the blue end of the spectrum. To truly
about the application of light, more than the blue
source connections. While considerations of
eliminate the feared impact on wildlife of exte-
light discussion. For alarmists, the first order of
adjusting illumination levels and approach to
rior LED lighting’s more blue-heavy spectrum,
business would be to control or eliminate blue
accommodate age, tasks and subjective intent of
the color of sources would need to be red, to red-
light in the illuminated environment. Meanwhile,
an overall design, these are a very small part of
orange (720nm and longer), which is hardly going
marketers now offer devices that use blue light
what is now known about factors impacting the
to be well received by human occupants.
to create calm as a sleep aide. Never mind that
human good.
Yet, 3000K exterior light sources is a demand
Nothing illustrates the lack of connectivity
blue light is the most popular in applied color
The core driver for manufacturers and
being met, marketed, and promoted by organiza-
lighting effects for outdoor and indoor applica-
designers alike, is customer demand. This is
tions that should know better. The end-product is
tions. The blue light topic is fueled by its many
evident where state regulations control energy
a false sense of accomplishment by those making
conflicting facets and misinformation.
use, or areas demanding adjustments in light
the demand, with little or no real improvement in
source spectral content to protect birds, turtles,
human or wildlife conditions.
etc.. When a demand exists and is well defined,
That said, there may indeed be a strong case
More effort needs to be invested in pushing back against marketing zealousness and overreactionaries who distort understanding. This
manufacturers and designers react and comply.
for utilizing warmer CCT sources in outdoor
clears demand definitions to have clarity and
Without demand delineation, the realm of pos-
lighting, based on preference alone. Lighting
value to the human good.
sibilities is so vast that it paralyzes those who
for the human good must also recognize such
wish to contribute, resulting in a market so over-
subjective factors. If the consensus is that we
Light Doping without License
flowing with options, that even the best concepts
prefer 3000K, then so be it. Why does it need to
So, to this point, let’s start with one of the most
get buried in the noise. Unfortunately, a great
be rationalized with fallacious argument? If we
controversial subjects capturing everyone’s
deal of what presents itself as demand, comes
then demand that the SPD of the 3000K sources
imagination—white light tuning to improve the
from ill-informed or over-reactionary sources.
employed include features that mitigate blue
sleep cycle. The theory was straightforward:
An example of this is the current demand for
light in wavelengths shorter than 460nm to
human circadian timing is at least partly reac-
3000K and warmer street lighting. Those who
reduce physiological reaction potential, then that
tive to light, in a combination of spectral energy
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MISUNDERSTOOD? Ironically, blue light, as prominently displayed on the “Frame” in Dubai, which features nearly 400 Color Kinetics RGB fixtures, is the most popular color source for lighting effects for both indoor and outdoor applications.
content and total power. More recently, however,
and at what power level, is necessary to attain
between the science of understanding how light
biological discoveries, as to how non-visual light
a real result. This is akin to drug manufactur-
effects human physiological responses, and
reacts with cells within the retina, have opened
ers offering a potion that promises to make
purposefully manipulating light to generate a
the door to speculation as to just how many
everyone feel great, with no recommendation as
specific reaction. If we start by applying fresh
other physiological systems are impacted by
to how many doses to take, at what times, and
understanding to avoid conditions we know
light, and how those effects might be produced
of what quantity. To make matters worse, the
to carry risk, we are serving the human good.
or suppressed by manipulating artificial light.
qualities of the drug itself are left to the defini-
“Do No Harm” may be the best course of action.
tion of individual manufacturer, with no uniform
Flicker mitigation is a perfect example of this.
Interestingly, those involved in these sciences, and the committees of experts considering these factors, have stated repeatedly that it is
qualification. The LRC and WELL have weighed in with sug-
While it is commendable that there are many in the industry anxious to contribute, there
too early to establish prescriptive methods and
gestions, but there’s still no solid foundation on
remains an underlying question of legitimacy
practices. This, however, has not deterred the
which to establish their true effectiveness. The
and human rights to be answered. Is it accept-
rush of theories and recommendations founded
fact is, until the research is complete, there is no
able that lighting be formulated to purpose-
on cherry-picked research. A great many now
path to make any claim of improving the human
fully produce a human physiological reaction,
claim enhanced health and well-being, based
good by haphazard application of concepts yet to
without the consent of those effected? Who will
on rudimentary CCT tuning: Simply change the
be completely vetted and tested.
be held liable if it is later found that well-inten-
lighting system, add a few controls, and begin feeling the benefits! To be clear: There are no established standards for setting out what light, at what time,
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tioned, but misguided and rushed applications
What’s the Next Step? Standards and scientific verification. First we must understand there is a vast difference
actually cause more harm then good? For lighting to become truly legitimate in its effort to participate in delivering for the human
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VISUAL CONNECTION For the public good, many municipalities are illuminating monuments and other public structures to create a sense of community and place. Top, the Irvine Footbridge by Studio K1/Lumenpulse; lower, the Von Karmen Creative Campus, also in Irvine, by Brilliant Lighting Studio.
good, which includes physiological support, and
no formal metrics within which to work, and
risk identification, it will need to merge real
no objective benchmarks to test an application
understanding with recognized methods and
against, any approach can be labeled as benefi-
standards. Until then, the reliability and expect-
cial and for the betterment of the human good.
ed effectiveness of any lighting system to have a
Subjectivity is best left to the arts, not lighting
positive impact on human health and present no
theories that may or may not have a positive net
known harmful side effects—is highly suspect.
effect on humans.
Subjective Opinion the Foundation?
two competing approaches to public lighting. The
Without prescriptive formulas for addressing the
first involves the illumination of monuments,
connection between light and human well-being,
bridges, building facades, and other public struc-
critical factors involved. The desire of some
decision making is founded primarily on opinion.
tures to create a sense of community and place.
to see the stars above, and experience the
What anyone believes works will be applied, even
The second is simply about control of upward
night without sky glow, against the use of light
if it can be proven ineffective. Approaches found-
and horizontal luminance that is the underlying
to create communal special experiences, is
ed on partial interpretation of scientific studies,
requirement of controlling sky illuminance that
seemingly irreconcilable, and yet a paradox for
coupled to marketing case-studies, become
obliterates the stars above, and disrupts wildlife
the human good.
surrogates for provable standards and practices.
around us. While there are approaches to public
The definition of “human good” then becomes a
lighting that limit sky glow, for the most part, the
A Legacy of Clashing
matter of interpretation. Should the decisions
desired effect is the reason for the lighting to be
Aggravating the irrelevance of horizontal illu-
prove one day to be ineffective or harmful, they
applied. Lighting is not just about illuminating
minance as a reasonable indicator of a lighting
can be dismissed in the absence of more formal
a surface—the direction of light applied to a 3D
system’s performance in delivering visible light
guidance. In the end, with no formal standards,
surface, its intensity, color and character are the
to the human eye, is the march downward in illu-
Communities around the world are embracing
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mination recommendations over the last 30 years in service of energy conservation. In retrospect, a great deal of changes made from 70 and 100 footcandle levels, to as low as 30fc, appears more a rationalization of sacrificing the human good for energy reduction. When applying circadian
GOOD KIND OF PARADOX The desire of some to see the stars and experience the night without sky glow, against the use of light to create communal special experiences, such as at the Amsterdam Light Festival (above), or for Janet Echelman’s latest exhibit, “Pulse,” in Philadelphia (right), is seemingly irreconcilable, and yet a paradox for the human good.
stimulus function, attaining the appropriate level of vertical illuminance to occupants demands and/or results in far higher illuminance levels than has been accepted practice.
Next Steps
they should be accepted on par with objective
Technology and advanced understanding brings
metrics. This avoids the fallacious use of objective
the baggage of responsible application. That
rationalization, by allowing all factors to be repre-
said, an equal case can be made for proceeding
sented with clarity and perspective This may result in a re-think of how lighting is
evaluate, identify and eliminate practices that are
designed and selected, as the knowledge of true
harmful. Then, as knowledge becomes complete,
implications of light on the human good appears
fully defined, new methods and approaches can
to conflict with past practices of allowing literally
be put into service. Into this mix must involve a
anyone to inflict lighting systems on human and
greater inclusion of subjective factors—so long as
natural occupants, using whatever rationale they
they do not conflict with known harmful effects,
choose, without oversight or validation.•
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cautiously, where new information is used to
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By Vilma Barr, contributing writer
THE UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT No windows? No Problem. Artistic lighting is helping subsurface spaces become architectural environments, with creations ranging from subtle to slick to glorious. Life and its activities carried out underground have come a long way since pre-historic families beat the high cost of rentals back then to create nature’s own lifestyle in cave dwellings. Modern-day underground enclosures are designed to satisfy user needs in environments ranging from casual to elegant, functional to luxurious, and lit to help establish the mood. Two interior groups characterize the contemporary movement to bring a combination of art and technology to utilizing below-grade: from a few steps to a restaurant or shop, to 260 ft. below, in the case of Portland’s Washington Park MAX Station. LED lamps and sophisticated controls can turn lounges and restaurants into stage sets, and have transformed blank expanses of subway station walls into a new genre of art gallery.
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Krypt: Bar & Restaurant Location: Vienna, Austria A former jazz club in an historic Vienna building, channels decades past with a new-meetsold aesthetic designed by Büro KLK. It is 25 feet below this circa-1825 building close to the Sigmund Freud Museum and neo-Gothic Votivkirche in Alsergrund, Vienna’s ninth district. Serendipitously, this subterranean lair was only discovered during a renovation of the historic upper level. Details are indeed rich at Krypt: The centerpiece is the 23-ft.-long bar with a base crafted from Sahara Noir marble, streaked with gold veins, and— for textural contrast—a European
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walnut top. Overhead, on the vaulted ceiling, pipes, plated with composition gold and painted in shellac, add industrial flair. The floor, laid in a herringbone pattern, showcases yet another burst of sleek marble, this time of the Nero Marquina variety. Instead of an expansive display of bottles, a lush green mural from Austrian artist Alexander Ruthner dominates the wall behind the bar, meant to engage customers as they socialize. Next to a museumesque display case of glassware is a subdued, dimly lit hangout featuring Alexander Wang beanbag chairs and a coated-brass chandelier.
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D Dining, Retail and Museums Dining out is a holistic experience—an interplay of aroma, taste, sights, sounds, and ambience, among others. Interior design and illumination choices can amplify the experience for guests, whether in a bustling downtown hot spot, or a hotel lounge back in time to a Victorian-era London pub. The first step is to encourage patrons to put down their electronic devices, look up and admire their surroundings, and then appreciate and enjoy the moment. The dim, smokey interior images of the “Joe-Sent-Me” style of restaurants and bars set in Prohibition-era films and TV shows gave underground restaurants and lounges a bad visual rap. Cooperative efforts by architects and lighting designers have adaptively reused former exposed-brick storage rooms and a shuttered subterranean palace basement into enticing places to dine.
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Bala Perdida Club Location: Madrid A total renovation turned a neglected 18th century palace into the current Hotel Axel Madrid. The excavation revealed two dark subterranean vaults. The designers agreed on a plan to transform it into an atmosphere that combined visual magic and optical illusion. The Bala Perdida (Lost Bullet) functions as a snack and cocktail bar during the day and in the evening as a night club.
Mirrors at both ends created an infinity effect, making the vaults appear to be endless tunnels. The changing LED lighting is created by longitudinal fixtures suspended among the acoustic panels that change speed and color depending on the different scenes at the venue. The drink bar serves as a lamp itself.
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Tea Live Location: Melbourne, Australia FRETARD Design has expertly delivered Australia’s first Tea Live store, introducing the successful Malaysian bubble tea company to Melbourne’s bustling CBD. A colorful tea stop in the city’s largest transit hub, Southern Cross Station, is a visually stimulating space that attracts customers with vibrant purples and yellows and energizes the spirit even before the first sip. The striking ceiling, representative of the way in which the straw perforates the bubble tea lid, adds intrigue and texture to the store layout while emphasizing the bold brand colors and quirky personality.
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Gateway Arch Museum & Visitor Center Location: St. Louis Located at the base of the iconic Gateway Arch, the underground Gateway Arch Museum and Visitor Center was first opened in 1965. Over the years, it suffered from lack of visibility and dated interior display galleries. Its renovation by Cooper Robertson with James Carpenter Design Assocs., was part of The City+The Arch+The River 2015 program to integrate the downtown with the Gateway site on the banks of the Mississippi River. The Museum’s extensive renovation required the demolition of the interior spaces, and reconfigured into new galleries, new lobby that is an informal visitor center, public amenities, and staff offices. The circular stainless steel and glass entrance is at ground level. Visitors then enter the great hall and continue on to the exhibits. Photos: Courtesy, Tillotson Design Associates
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D Retail
Subway Systems
Stores, too are discovering the benefit of underground
Finally, the subway has become the most important public
spaces. Proliferating off-price and fast-retail chains are
transport mode in many cities. As the hub of subway opera-
grabbing spaces the former bargain basements of depart-
tion, subway stations are important nodes in a city, with
ment and large specialty stores, and are transforming them
some functioning 24/7.
into product-specific merchandise centers, such as the
In 1863, London opened the world’s first subway line.
Beauty Level at Bergdorf Goodman, or home products at
The Paris Metro started running in 1900, with its elaborate
The Cellar at Macy’s New York. Now on the scene are retail-
sculptural entrances designed by leading Art Nouveau
ers such as Pusiteri’s, operating gourmet shops at Saks Fifth
architects. In the U.S., the New York system began opera-
Avenue in Toronto’s Eaton Centre. On Boston’s upscale New-
tions in 1904, followed by Philadelphia in 1907. Tokyo’s old-
bury Street, the Adidas Brand Experience is located below
est lines date to 1927. Moscow’s subways officially opened
street level, giving the space a warehouse-like feel with red
for business in 1935. The grandeur of its fabled stations is a
brick walls, lit by ceiling-hung lighting fixtures.
tourist attraction in their own right.
In St. Louis, on the site of the iconic Gateway Arch
Until the end of the 20th century, most underground rail
bordering the Mississippi River, a total renovation of the
transit construction, including station design, was led by
Museum and Visitor Center placed the structure primarily
engineers. In England, from the 1980s and beyond, empha-
below grade. Visitors enter from a stainless steel and glass
sis has shifted away from rail construction. Noted artists
entrance at ground level before proceeding to displays and
and architects were commissioned to create fresh and
exhibits.
original works seen across central area station platforms and in stations underground.
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Pusiteri’s in Saks Location: Eaton Centre, Toronto A branch of gourmet grocer Pusiteri’s is located in the lower level of Saks Fifth Avenue in downtown Toronto, adding to the city’s PATH network, one of the world’s largest underground retail networks. It offers 24,000 sq. ft. of culinary stations, artisanal products and prepared food, as well as a broad assortment of gourmet products. The design is dramatic and upscale to communicate to shoppers an above-ground sophistication by intermixing bold patterns and high-end materials.
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Yoshinori Restaurant Location: Paris, France A Japanese gourmet restaurant located in the heart of SaintGermain-des-Prés, its designers, Alia Bengana + Atelier BEPG, created a two-level space. Including both a ground floor and a basement, the spaces are characteristic of the neighborhood of vintage stone, including visible wood beams on the ground floor, and vaulted stone cellars in the basement. Openwork screens allowed the architects to define spaces and protect passageways and entrances, creating a feeling of intimacy in every corner of the restaurant. Slim profile hanging fixtures from the vaults along with wall sconces and define the dining area.
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Qingdao Subway Station Location: Qingdao, China From an international design competition to design stations for the new 37-mile-long Qingdao Metro Line, Canadian design firm Igloodgn created a bright white tile background planted with black sketch drawings of tulips as the visual theme. According to the architects, the fanciful drawings on walls and columns give the feeling that they are either growing downward on their way to the train, or being pulled from the ground up as if they had just alighted from a train that just pulled in. The graphic artwork on the tiles also serves as wayfinding, directing commuters up and down the set of escalators leading to the subway platform. Suspended lighting fixtures with dark-painted outside shades and linear flush-mounted fixtures provide accent and ambient illumination. Photos: Courtesy, Igloodgn
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D In the U.S., Washington D.C.’s Metro line opened in 1977, with lighting dramatizing the tunnel’s waffle-like vaults in four underground stations, including Union Station. New York City, which has the world’s largest number of stations with 468, maintains a rigid illumination policy primarily by tube fixtures for the platforms and other public spaces. Its newest line, the Second Avenue Subway, opened in 2017, with oversized murals executed in a variety of media, including mosaic, at the platform level and other public spaces.•
Second Avenue Subway Location: New York City The 72nd Street station is part of the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway that will stretch from a terminal station at 125th Street to the financial district in lower Manhattan, a total of 8.3 miles for 200,000 daily commuters. Planned as a high-performance and environmentally progressive infrastructure project, the system will encompass 16 underground stations linked at key points to existing New York City Transit stations.
Lighting designers Domingo Gonzalez Associates developed lighting criteria standards and design approaches for all station public areas, including a family of transportation— luminaires and integrated wireway systems as part of the initial construction package.
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Washington Park MAX Station
Photos: Courtesy, Michael Jones
Location: Portland, Ore. For its Washington Park MAX Station, Portland’s light rail system revitalized the 24/7 hub to make it more welcoming, with lighting a key consideration. It holds the record of being the deepest station in North America, at 260 ft., In addition to energy efficiency, the agency wanted to minimize maintenance requirements with a long lifetime and easy access for cleaning. ZGF Architects partnered with Reyes Engineering to design a lighting scheme. For the elevator lobbies and the platform tunnel. A custom mounting solution was also devised to ensure fixtures on the platform would not swing due to air movement caused by moving trains.
University of Washington Station Location: Seattle Knitting together transportation modalities from bike to bus, pedestrians and trains, the multi-disciplinary design of the 156,000-sq.-ft. station, part of the Sound Transit light rail system, was created as a unified solution. It provides a gateway to the Univ. of Washington campus through its above-and below-grade environments. From a two-level glass entrance structure, riders access the train platform 100 ft. underground. LMN Architects and artist Leo Saul Berk collaborated to create the artwork, “Subterraneum,” that expresses the geological layers of soil surrounding the station walls. Its illuminated surface parallels the escalator and stairway leading from streets level to the platform. Photos: Courtesy, LMN Architects
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F§ATUR§D PRoj§Ct
A New Kind of Healing Space
MSK’s Innovative Environment Montvale, N.J. Architecture, Lighting Design, and Engineering: EwingCole GC: Turner Construction Photos: Halkin/Mason Photography Text: Vilma Barr The Challenge: From the bones of a former corporate headquarters in an office park, create for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center a facility for treating cancer patients. Furthermore, the hospital wanted to avoid a featureless institutional approach to interior design and lighting, and enliven spaces dedicated to treatment, waiting, and social interactivity. EwingCole was also charged to re-purpose the interiors for staff efficiency and patient well-being. The Solution: The architecture, interiors and lighting design teams from EwingCole and MSK’s internal design team followed a narrative that focused on creating a distinctive and welcoming patient experience to meet the medical and emotional needs of patients, their family, and caregivers. Stylish, lively, and artistic expressions of visual themes for materials and lighting techniques combine to form an environment to which members of the diverse group of users can relate. Extending above the main infusion waiting area is an organically shaped dropped enclosed ceiling unit. Its surface image is an abstraction of a slice of a tree trunk, laser cut into the surface covering and mounted in panels. Various user groups supplied input into the conceptual programs under consideration.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering’s
lively contemporary themes that
outpatient treatment facilities in
branch cancer center integrates
visually communicate a welcoming
three New Jersey counties, one in
hospitality into healthcare design.
environment.
lower New York State and three on
The new Montvale location in
Long Island.
In June 2018, Memorial Sloan Ket-
Bergen County exemplifies the
tering (MSK) Cancer Center opened
latest in the healthcare trend to
largest private cancer center. It
MSK is the world’s oldest and
a sleek, modern, and technology-
bring needed treatment facilities
was founded in 1884 as New York
filled 145,000-sq.-ft. outpatient
closer to where patients live and
Cancer Hospital on Manhattan’s
facility in Montvale, N.J., that was
work. At this specialized MSK facil-
Upper West Side by a group that
designed to meet the medical
ity, patients can receive such care
included John J. Astor. In 1939, the
and emotional needs of patients,
procedures as infusion services,
new Memorial Hospital opened
their family and caregivers. The
radiation therapy, radiology tests,
in its present location on York
design of the building’s interiors
and other treatments and support-
Avenue, on land donated by John
and lighting integrate stylish and
ive services. MSK now operates
D. Rockefeller, Jr. In the 1940s, two
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STYLE STATEMENT
Common areas are inviting and comfortable with open spacious layouts accented here by colorful contemporary furnishings including individual upholstered seating, Suspended from a dropped ceiling are pairs of clear and frosted fixtures. The overhead design has been laser cut into panels and mounted below a custom illumination system.
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former General Motors execu-
services for the 32-month-long
waiting areas, 28 exam rooms,
tives, Alfred P. Sloan and Charles
design and construction process.
and 18 infusion bays are meant
F. Kettering, established the Sloan
EwingCole’s architecture team
to be comfortable and spacious,
Kettering Institute (SKI), which has
was led by Mary Frazier, manag-
yet allow for privacy. MSK Bergen
become one of the nation’s leading
ing director of the firm’s New York
also features a café, a community
biomedical research institutions
office, and Saul Jabbawy, director
gallery showcasing the creative
and cancer care centers.
of design. Lighting design for the
talents of local artists, Wi-Fi, and
project was led by senior designer
conference space for community
former headquarters of the now-
Carl Speroff IV, and Angela Matchi-
use. EwingCole designers worked
defunct Toys ‘R Us retail chain.
ca, director of lighting design.
closely with the MSK team to cre-
The two-story building was the
EwingCole, which had been respon-
Because radiation therapy
sible for the design of four other
and chemotherapy often require
MSK facilities, provided architec-
multiple patient visits, the design
ture, interiors, and lighting design
and layout of the common and
ate a welcoming non-institutional environment. “The team focused on a creative approach for a healthcare
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facility that would not present the
visits over extended time periods,
open spacious layouts with colorful
cancer patient with a cold, sterile
or day-long visits which require
contemporary furnishings, and
environment. We adapted design
patients to be on-site for several
daylighting from large floor-to-
themes that have proven suc-
hours. Throughout the planning
ceiling windows in the main lobby
cessful when applied in hospital-
and design process, EwingCole and
and interior waiting areas.
ity settings,” says Matchica. “The
MSK’s internal design team kept
interiors including the lighting
patient experience requirements
approached their assignment with
need to be a continuation of that
high on the priority list. “Creating a
dual objectives. Previous projects
philosophy that they have in place,”
facility that promotes wellness and
on which they have collaborated
she points out. During the design
offers choices for the patients was
identify their working style, they
development phase, various user
our mutual goal,” says Speroff.
report, as one of extending lighting
groups had the opportunity for
Matchica and Speroff
The renovation program con-
design boundaries. For MSK Ber-
input into the conceptual programs
centrated on the re-purposing the
gen, the first goal was to combine
under consideration.
interiors for staff efficiency and
functional solutions including the
Patient treatment regimens
patient well-being. Common areas
cohesive integration of the seem-
often vary and may include daily
are inviting and comfortable with
ingly random placement of existing
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A MAJOR CHALLENGE WAS TO MODIFY THE NUMBER AND IRREGULAR PLACEMENT OF THE STRUCTURAL COLUMNS, AND TREAT THEM AS INDOOR TREE TRUNKS.
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structural columns into the inte-
building. EwingCole and MSK’s
Light Super Neon LED, 5W/ft,
rior environmental program. The
design team agreed that bringing
forming circular illuminated caps.
second was to minimize the impact
the essence of the nearby outdoors
Seating and tables are placed to
of low floor-to-floor heights, and
into the interior would represent a
visually link the floor level user
to create artistic two-and three-
calming transition for patients and
elements with the strong verti-
dimensional architectural lighting
those accompanying them.
cality and accented tops of the
statements.
A major challenge was to modify the number and irregular place-
columns. LED small aperture downlights
Functional Solutions
ment of the structural columns.
were selected for general lighting.
Throughout, direct lighting was
“We interpreted the columns as
Decorative pendants call atten-
avoided and recessed ceiling
tree trunks, with larger ‘trunks’
tion to public gathering spaces. To
fixtures were minimized. Most fix-
enclosing multiple closely spaced
illuminate more private areas, LED
tures were fitted with lamps rated
columns,” Matchica explains. New-
14W downlights by USAI’s Bevel
80 CRI, 3500K.
ly wrapped in white, the smooth-
Mini group, and Gotham 2-in. Incito
Mature trees and lush land-
finished columns are openly flared
7W fixtures were selected. Perime-
scaped spaces surround the MSK
at the top with fixtures from Moda
ter cove lighting from, Lumenpulse
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Above the main infusion waiting area is a dropped organically shaped enclosed ceiling unit that is a technical and graphic tour de force. Organically shaped, the surface image is an illuminated abstraction of a slice of a tree trunk, laser cut into the surface panels. EcoSenseTrov fixtures, installed inside the frame beam across the span, bounce light off the ceiling.
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6W/ft. fixtures provides, a soft
“Y” shape custom LED tubes from
span, bouncing light off the ceil-
continuous overhead glow.
Selux (M36 5W/ft) mimicking geo-
ing. This technique creates even
metric tree branches.
illumination similar to backlight-
Overhead Decorative Solutions
Extending above the main infu-
ing on a vertical plane, without
The main lobby is sectioned into
sion waiting area is a dropped
requiring a downlight system. “The
several smaller areas without the
enclosed ceiling unit that is a
design solution balanced the visual
use of opaque physical dividers.
technical and graphic tour de force.
art with the realistic needs of long-
Furniture arrangements and
Organically shaped, the surface
term access and maintenance,”
overhead illuminated architec-
image is an abstraction of a slice of
says Speroff.
tural elements maintain the open
a tree trunk. It was laser cut into
impression of the space. Perimeter
the surface covering and mounted
meet the U.S. Green Building Coun-
and cove lighting balance daylight-
in panels.
cil’s LEED certification. It has won
ing. Oncology waiting is defined by
The outlines of the design are
a dropped wood grain covered free-
illuminated by EcoSenseTrov fix-
form ceiling. Smoothly inserted at
tures. These were installed inside
the surface are randomly spaced
the frame and beam across the
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THE WONDERFUL LED ILLUMINATED WORLD OF SHARKS A DELIGHTFUL DIVE NEW YORK AQUARIUM’S OCEAN WONDERS: SHARKS EXHIBIT Brooklyn, NY
A million gallons of water and 18 kinds of sharks and rays swimming in tanks with sophisticated LED lighting create an immersive experience at the New York Aquarium’s Ocean Wonders: Sharks exhibit. The lighting designer for this project is Christine Hope of Focus Lighting, a New York City-based firm. The exhibit opened on June 30, 2018 in a three-story, 57,500-sq.-ft. building adjacent to the Coney Island boardwalk, with nine dynamic galleries to help drive awareness of the importance of sharks to the health of the world’s ocean and educate visitors about the severe threats sharks face. A secondary goal was to draw attention to the surprisingly diverse and beautiful marine wildlife in New York. The lighting design works to support the exhibit’s objective to spread the important message of ocean conservation by establishing an atmosphere that mimics a deep dive through the ocean. The first tank that visitors experience is a tunnel designed to have the look and feel of a bright and colorful coral reef. Illuminated with Lumenpulse RGBW Lumenbeam Grande LED fixtures, the lighting can be tuned to the exact color quality needed to make coral stand out. “The Lumenbeam Grande fixtures are used for large washes of color over the coral,” notes Hope. “Smaller Lumenbeam Medium fixtures have a smaller beam and pinpoint highlights within the reef. It’s meant to feel colorful and sun-splashed in a shallow location; the exhibits get deeper as you go along.” The second large tank is a full cylinder that
ABOVE: Focus Lighting lit the exterior of the aquarium , which features a 1,000-ft.-long shimmering wall
replicates an area of the harbor called the New
created by environmental artist Ned Kahn. Using wind and reflected light to create a mesmerizing effect reminiscent of ocean waves, the wall is made of over 33,000 aluminum flappers, or small squares that flutter in the wind, and wrap the building’s exterior, which is lit with Color Kinetics ColorGraze MX fixtures.
to that area. “We worked closely with WCS to
York Bight, with each species on display native develop the exact color of the water seen when diving in this area at a depth of 60-80 ft. below
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NEW YORK AQUARIUM’S OCEAN WONDERS: SHARKS EXHIBIT, Brooklyn, NY
THE CHALLENGE: In an exhibit at the New York Aquarium that was 10 years in the making, one challenge for the designers at Focus Lighting was to convince the client to switch to 100% LED sources instead of the orginally specified metal halide lamps to light sharks and rays in a series of tanks that needed to be visually compelling. THE SOLUTION: Based on the decrease in energy consumption, which was an important factor for the client’s focus on conservation, and the fact that LED technology came of age as this project neared compeletion, the desgners did a mock up in one of the tanks to show how they could fine tune the colors with the LEDs. They also layered the light to accent the sharks as they swim out of deeper, darker recesses. PROJECT CREDITS:
Client: Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Lighting Design: Focus Lighting Architect: ESKW Architects Exhibit Designer: The Portico Group PRIMARY FIXTURE LIST:
Location: Exterior
Fixture:
• Exterior LED
• Color Kinetics
Shimmer Wall Graze • LED Steplights
The first tank that visitors experience is a tunnel designed to have the look and feel of a bright and colorful coral reef. Illuminated with Lumenpulse RGBW Lumenbeam Grande LED fixtures to make coral stand out, while another exhibit evokes the New York Bight, an area of the harbor along the coast, and the species found there.
• Bega
at Exterior Ramp Location: Interior
Fixture:
• Linear LED Cove Accents
• Color Kinetics
the surface,” says Hope. “To create the soft, even
beam Large LED spots illuminate a narrow strip
• Interior LED Track Accents
• Juno
glow experienced at that depth, a custom mount-
of sandy beach along the front edge of the tank,
• LED Accents at Tanks
• Lumenpulse
ing structure was designed and the ceiling above
then the exhibit falls off into darkness,” Hope ex-
• Interior Tapelight Accents
• Luminii
the tank was painted white, so that carefully
plains. “The deeper recesses of the huge tank are
tuned RGBW floodlights, once again the Lumen-
flooded with blue in the LED Lumenbeam Large
Photographers: Ryan Fischer
beam Grande, could bounce off the ceiling and
fixtures, so that the sharks are just barely visible
Text: Ellen Lampert-Gréaux
into the tank.”
in the murky depths, and then suddenly come
Smaller direct accent spotlights, Lumenbeam
into the light as they approach the front of the
Medium, are used for contrast of light and shad-
tank. We layered the light, so you can see them
ow, and mounted to the top of the structure to
more clearly when they come into the brighter
add subtle, natural feeling highlights to the tank.
areas.”
“It’s the same strategy here as in the first tank,
In the informative“Meet the Shark” area acrylic shark pendants are edge-lit with cool white Luminii LED tapelight to create a playful environment.
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Meet the Shark presents information about
explains Hope. “Full washes of color create a
the sharks. Each display is highlighted by a
beautiful emerald green glow, with a paler shade
cluster of tiny LED track heads, low-voltage 3W
from the smaller fixtures, to create highlights.”
Juno miniature LED accent lights in the cool
The culmination of the exhibit is the Canyon’s
white range, mounted to a flexible track curved
Edge tank with deep ocean sharks on display. “A
to match the organic shape of the room. The
few shafts of “sunlight” from cool white Lumen-
ceiling is hung with 22 custom-designed “shark
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pendants” fabricated in acrylic and edge-lit with
sunlight is slowly replaced by tones of blue and
cool white Luminii LED tapelight to create a
purple light, ebbing and flowing in a rhythm of
unique and playful environment.
bioluminescent tides. “The nighttime look of the
There were several factors in the decision to
shimmer wall was critical to creating the sense
light the exhibit 100% LED. “This cuts down on
of excitement we were trying to achieve with
energy consumption, which was important as
this project,” says Hope. “We did a series of mock-
there is a display here about conservation and it
ups and ended up with the Color Kinetics fix-
was important to us to support that,” says Hope.
tures, which provide a beautiful sparkling fluid
Focus Lighting’s principal designer, Brett Ander-
light feature. The sequence starts on the wall at
sen adds that this project was almost 10 years
sunset, as it gets darker the lights increase in in-
in the making and originally called for metal
tensity… There is a different show almost every
halides. “The LED technology came of age in the
night based on the elements.”
meantime, so did a mock up in another tank to
The parting message is one of conservation,
convince the client to change over to all LED,” he
sustainability, and the impact of pollution on
points out. “We love the ability to really fine tune
our oceans. A “Pepper’s Ghost” effect simulates
the colors in the tanks, and dial it in perfectly
garbage floating in the “Canyon’s Edge” tank,
with the LEDs.”
while brightly lit interactive displays encour-
The exterior of the building, also lit by Focus Lighting, features a 1,000-ft.-long shimmering wall that uses wind and reflected light to cre-
age guests to learn about responsible practices before returning to Coney Island’s boardwalk. “We want to encourage reducing pollution,
ate a mesmerizing effect reminiscent of ocean
so there is window that looks back into the
waves. Created by environmental artist Ned
Canyon’s Edge tank from the next room, with
ABOVE: The deeper recesses of the “Canyon’s
Kahn, the wall comprises of over 33,000 alumi-
TV monitors showing floating pieces of trash,
num flappers, or small squares that flutter in
but reflected in the tan,” says Hope. “The main
the wind, wrapping the building’s exterior. Each
objective of the exhibit is to spread the impor-
night, a five-hour lighting program using Color
tant message of ocean conservation. We have
Kinetics ColorGraze MX fixtures illuminates the
achieved this with exhibits designed to reduce
wall with scenes inspired by ocean life.
fear and increase understanding of every aspect
Edge” shark tank are flooded with blue in the LED Lumenbeam fixtures (top photo), so that the sharks are just barely visible in the murky depths, and then suddenly come into the light as they approach the front of the tank. The bottom photos illustrate the clusters of LED track heads—low-voltage 3W Juno miniature LED accent lights in the cool white range— mounted to a flexible track curved to match the organic shape of the “Meet The Shark” room.
The show is automatically triggered as sunset over the beach approaches. As night falls,
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HIGH MARKS FOR HOLISTIC LEWIS CENTER LIGHTING EXPERIENCE LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS Princeton, NJ
Architect Steven Holl was predictably pleased when his firm was selected for the new Lewis Center for the Arts that occupy a high-visibility site on the Princeton University campus. “I’m very confident that we can make something that’s inspirational, fresh and new,” said Holl, principal and design architect. That was in 2007. It took 10 years to celebrate opening day in October, 2017. The architect knew that he had his work cut out for him. The predecessor to the university admitted its first students in 1742—34 years before the founding of the United States. Its continued growth spawned the need for new facilities, so that by the turn of the 20th century, its campus was a milieu of Collegiate Gothic structures. The Lewis Center represented a $300 million undertaking of which one-third was a gift of late alum Peter B. Lewis. Holl assembled a team to implement his objective: structures that have the same sense of timeless design as existing buildings, with a contemporary elegance of form and function., Constructed of Italian fossilized limestone, the complex is comprised of the Wallace Theater and Dance Building; the Arts Building—identified by a stone and concrete tower connecting to the historic Blair Arch campus entry—and the Music Building. Christopher Rush, senior lighting designer at Ove Arup & Partners, joined Holl’s project team to integrate the exterior and interior lighting program. “Each artistic discipline—dance, acting, and music–has a building wing arranged around an interconnecting central hub,“ Rush explains.
ABOVE: The Lewis Center complex consists of the Wallace Theater and Dance Building; the Arts Building; and the Music Building. Highlighted features within the structures create a glowing transparency that architect Steven Holl had conceptualized. Site lighting marks the reflecting pool and egress routes.
“Lighting takes a holistic approach to emphasize the overall sculptural quality of the architectural forms, receding into coves, skylights, curves, and corners where volumes and structure meet and intersect,” he says.
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LEWIS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Princeton, NJ
THE CHALLENGE: Bring together three components of Princeton University’s arts program into a single complex that would be a landmark on the campus of this 277-year-old educational institution. Furthermore, Holl was charged to connect the arts district to the campus with new design features, as well as incorporating the center’s facilities with the town of Princeton, making them accessible to the community’s residents. THE SOLUTION: The Arup team minimized lighting fixture quantity and energy use. Façades were designed with maximum opportunities for daylighting. On the sustainability front, the buildng incorporates graywater treatment and reuse, as well as green roofs and geothermal wells. Its MEP system provides all the energy to heat and cool the complex as well as the new “Dinky” station—a one-car train between the Princeton stop for Amtrak and New Jersey Transit to the university campus and town center.
Lighting For the Music Building produces a visible glow above and between suspended box rooms behind the full clear glass facades. Rehearsal and practice rooms are individually supported on steel rods to make them resonant and acoustically separate.
Rush recounts that Holl was intent on “a mem-
extra allowances,” Rush explains. Plazas use 74%
orable, distinctive night presence.” Rush devel-
less energy than code allowances, connecting
oped a plan that is a combination of focused and
between buildings and to surrounding pathways.
volumetric lighting to produce what he describes
“Key features that are highlighted to define the
as “an holistic lighting experience throughout
plazas, allow the buildings to shine, The result is
and as seen from outside.” Key features are
a glowing transparency that Holl had conceptu-
highlighted to define plazas, while allowing the
alized.” he observes.
buildings to shine,” notes Rush. The architecture includes areas of diffusing
The complex’s three buildings are connected by an underground “Forum” where students can
glass façade among the stone forms. Behind the
create collaborative projects. The public area,
glass, spaces are illuminated for the specific
positioned underneath the reflecting pool, has
PROJECT CREDITS:
needs of dance studios, offices and circulation
skylights that look up to the pool’s underside.
Owner: Princeton University
spaces, while including lighting that fills spaces
Size: 130,000 sq. ft.
at clerestories and ceilings, with light from
all studios, theaters, and the art gallery. Light
Lighting Design: Ove Arup & Partners
coves and ledges. For the Music Building, light-
is mixed and reflected from multiple angles for
Architect: Steven Holl Architects
ing produces a visible glow above and between
dance and acting, and directionality considered
Associate Architects: BNIM Architects
suspended box rooms behind the glass facades.
elsewhere for reading, music, or flexibility in the
Photo: Courtesy, Steve Holl Architects
Landscape Architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh and
Custom LED luminaires designed for each
Functional lighting needs are met throughout
gallery. Luminaire positions and DMX control
Associates
artistic discipline accent key public spaces
interfaces are coordinated with theatrical equip-
Structural, Acoustic and MEP Engineers: Ove Arup
communicate the character of each building. In
ment and systems, as well as for occupancy de-
& Partners
large, multi-story connective spaces, lighting is
tection, ventilation control, and daylight sensing.
Façade Consultant: Front Inc.
tailored to follow suspended stairs and ramps.
The Lewis Center, a creative amalgam of the
Each artistic discipline space is differentiated
talents behind the architecture, landscape archi-
Photographers: Paul Warchol; Christopher Rush,
by a style of custom fixture. “Every custom
tecture, and lighting, now serves as the gateway
Ove Arup & Partners, as noted.
sculptural luminaire provides functional illumi-
to the Princeton University campus for its
Text: Vilma Barr
nation, limiting interior lighting energy to 47%
students, faculty, and staff, and for the regional
less than allowed by code (0.71 W/sq. ft.) without
community which shares its cultural wealth.•
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By Kevin Willmorth, Editor
Revelations of a Human-Focused Metering Walk Around New meters and software actually allow designers to evaluate the impact of LED and other electronics on circadian response.
It’s important to stay up to date with the tools of the trade, especially
the critical factor in determining the effect of light on observers at
when new features or technology updates help make one’s work easier,
any position and viewing angle within a space. Since observers move
or, in fact, address new trends and issues affecting the industry. With
around, attaining a given target CS or M lux exposure over the course
that in mind, let’s take a look at the trusty light meter.
of work and relaxation periods requires measurements be taken in
The big news is that new meters, such as Asensitek Lighting’s
considered environments. Further, since application of CS and M lux
Passport, combined with associated new software, such as Spectrum
are only effective if they are sustained over the course of time the
Genius’s new offering, now produce data points related to human
observer experiences in the various spaces they occupy, it is important
factors, including the latest metrics for determining circadian impact.
to also understand what exposure times to each measured condition,
Two of the more critical data points deliver information on Circadian
to evaluate a composite effect.
Stimulus (CS) and Melanopic lux (M lux). What’s really exciting, is that
As an example of a typical walk through, I recorded various mea-
when combined with conventional photopic lux, a great deal more can
surements in my work and living environments over the course of a
be understood about the effect light present might have on circadian
typical day, including rough estimates of average time spent in each
response of occupants.
environment (visit architecturalssl.com to see the full results). Work spaces in this example include additional lighting specifically added to enhance CS and M lux effect, using sources chosen for optimal SPD
IN COLLECTING READINGS FOR CS AND M LUX, METERING OF LIGHT FALLING ON HORIZONTAL SURFACES IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE METHODOLOGY.
content. For example, in my office, facing a computer display, the area
Using meters and software, the composite impact of LED light,
measured at 609; the combined CCT was 3938; CS was 0.37; M lux was
was illuminated with indirect LED ambient lighting, and LED and OLED over the monitor to increase CS/M lux. The rest environments did not include any such consideration. In the case of the former, vertical lux (over a 190-minute period) was
portable devices, televisions and computer screens, and their poten-
442.3. In my home space, in my home entertainment area, with a 10-in.
tial effect on circadian response, can be evaluated. These can be
tablet, over a 60-minute period (illuminated with LED accent down-
roughly calculated during the design phase of projects, but verification
lights, the TV and east-facing windows) vertical lux was 18; CCT was
requires field measurement. This includes all spaces individuals might
2874; CS was 0.02; M Lux was 4.0.
experience in a typical day, as well as considering viewing angle. For some context, it might be helpful to review our White Pages
The Results: Without supplemental sources, the values in the work environments previously fell below the recommended levels. Further,
offering from June 2018 (p. 38) “Issues in Optimizing Light for Human
the total findings demonstrate that concern raised about the intru-
Performance.” There, we described the basics of optimizing human
sion of displays and use of LEDs in the home environment producing
performance through use of two metrics: 1) CS, where the LRC rec-
undesirable CS and M lux values—were totally unwarranted. Actual
ommends for CS, a value of >0.3 CS (to a threshold maximum of 0.7)
measurements were significantly below the maximums for the two-
during waking hours; and 2) <0.3 CS in the period of two hours before
hour time dedicated as the pre-sleep period, without any effort made
bedtime. We also explored the WELL Building Institute’s M lux metric
to mitigate the intrusion of circadian affecting light.
and its standard’s recommendation of achieving 200-250 M lux for waking hours, and <50 prior to sleep periods. OK, so with the right tools and the right recommendations, it’s criti-
Using empirical data collected through measurement of actual conditions provides designers the data and guidance they need to produce optimized results and make necessary corrections where required. The
cal to collect data properly. Be aware, that in collecting readings for
end-result is greater performance and enhanced human experience.
CS and M lux, common metering of light falling on horizontal surfaces
Further, for observer and space occupants, verifying that the CS and
is not an appropriate methodology. Meter sensors must be positioned
M lux values they are exposed to at work and at home addresses the
at eye level, looking outward into the direction the observer is likely
concerns that conjecture and unqualified anecdotal opinions voiced
to view when occupying a given space. Horizontal illuminance results
often on social media. As new metrics and understanding grows, direct
are irrelevant, as they do not indicate light likely to enter the eye.
measurement will advance the foundation on which objective, solid,
In general terms, vertical illuminance at the plane of observation is
decision making is based.•
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Using meters and software, the composite impact of LED light and electronic devices, and their potential effect on circadian response, can be evaluated.
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There’s an App for That Nedap has introduced the Luxon Switch App for users of its online lighting-management platform. Available for both iOS and Android devices, the app allows multi-site customers to make easy adjustments within a group or zone of fixtures, and to easily shift lighting levels from prescheduled settings. Visit www.nedap-luxon.com or Circle 231.
As an “industry” we should consider public preferences and concerns, as much as legitimate science, to address points of concern as the technology evolves.
4 Updated Standby Solution WAC Landscape Lighting has upgraded its Hardscape Series of IP66-rated exterior luminaires, adding field-adjustable color temperatures and lumen output levels. The fixtures feature stainless steel masonry brackets and rotating clips. Visit www.waclandscapelighting.com or Circle 232.
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The evolution of technology has brought the world to a new level of inclusion of new considerations— human-enhancing spatial experience and health support.
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2 Bluetooth Retrofit Option Installers can convert any 0-10v dimmable LED luminaire to operate within a Bluetooth mesh with the new Bluetooth Bridge from Fulham. The bridge can be installed in any electrical box or LED fixture to enable wireless control and monitoring. Visit www.fulham.com or Circle 237.
3 When Size Matters The JVLM Series of LED drivers and junction boxes from ERP Power offer a low-profile solution for electrical contractors and other installers. Called the world’s smallest UL-Listed junction box/driver combination, the units were designed in partnership with Elemental LED. Available outputs include 40W, 60W and 100W. Visit www.erp-power.com or Circle 238.
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A Myopic View of Lighting Myopia in the Social Media Circus Over the past 10 years, solid state lighting has come a long way, objectively. Now it’s time to bring it up to speed objectively—a task not to be underestimated.
ing views—quite the opposite. Everything in the
impressions is more difficult today than it was 10
structure of SM rewards attacking or dismissing
years ago, as the galvanization of isolation within
opposing views; it further accuses those express-
social media makes reaching those most opposed
ing them of some conspiratorial motivation, add-
almost impossible. Lighting matters to those
ing insult. SM is not the future of enlightenment,
against the technology as much as it does those
it may be the end of it.
who embrace it. Unfortunately, lighting does
When lighting causes a reaction within this
not garner much press beyond its own closed
closed loop universe, the response is often
universe, so reaching out through the back-door
Sitting across from me at a conference table,
emotionally charged. An illustration of this is
of open media isn’t the available path it once was.
the lead architect on a project, on which I was
the topic of blue light and/or the CCT of LEDs in
Conventional PR is even less effective.
the lead designer in charge of lighting, looked at
outdoor lighting applications. For hysterical SM
me, stating squarely: “You are being myopic, all
zealots, the lighting industry is guilty of negligent
belief that solid-state technology is on the right
you can see is lighting… we’ve got bigger issues
acts against all. They draw strength from those
track, and consider that impression does not
to solve.” The criticism stuck. Never mind that
in agreement with them in this closed loop of
matter if we can’t get past detractors. One way
the meeting was a lighting design review—30-
equally emotional and ill-informed constituents.
or another, lighting does matter, either to be
something years later, it still rings in my head.
The concern should not to be dismissed. As an
embraced and enjoyed, or hated. It’s time we get
Perspective is important, even when it hurts a
“industry” we should consider public preferences
myopic about influencing the public at large to
little. In today’s universe of division and Inter-
and concerns, as much as legitimate science,
see emerging technologies as positively respon-
web-fueled hysterics, myopia appears to be alive
to address points of concern as the technology
sive to concerns and needs—not as we see it—but
and well. Coupled with the echo chamber of
evolves. Dismissing such concerns is as myopic
as they do. This starts by recognizing that, in the
closed-cell news sources and social media, myopia
as those calling for the industry to be indicted on
scope of the circus of life, lighting is just a small
is now institutionalized. When a topic or opinion
crimes against humanity.
part of a bigger picture. Solid-state lighting has
disagrees with individuals, they simply tune it out, as well as those who express it. Bottom line: What we see as lighting people
The question is not “Does lighting matter,” but
it up to speed subjectively—which may be the
and subjectively. Even more than that, we must
hardest work of all.•
ask ourselves how we expand lighting to be heard
make lighting matter more, we cause a grow-
and seen, and positively embraced in closed-loop
ing number to resist. Interestingly, social media,
echo chambers. Early stage marketing of SSL
which is marketed as an open forum for commu-
technology failed to consider any of this. Rushing
nication, isolates and cuts it off. Social media is
poor quality, short-lived, uncomfortably ugly,
an infrastructure of echo chambers. Individuals
and glaring, junk into the market as the unavoid-
selectively choose who they see, hear and block.
able “future” of light—was not a great move. The
Those reliant on SM for news and information
result has been a predictable apathetic revulsion.
seek amplification of pre-conceived notions—not
This now includes the criticism of outdoor LED
expansion of knowledge. There is no objectivity
lighting as harmful and ugly, and exposure to LED
filter than demands participants entertain oppos-
light as a health risk. Diffusing these emotional
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come a long way objectively. It’s now time to bring
rather, how do we wish it to matter, objectively
is not what those outside see. In our effort to
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