KIM Lighting Pavilion Family
The Pavilion Family from KIM Lighting is a 7-inch round and square bollard that features a Bluetooth enabled luminous RGBW accent ring, 24 customisable head and louver configurations, and true IES, symmetric or asymmetric distributions. An integral ‘Power Station’ compartment enables optional electrical and USB charging, speaker integration or handicap access plate.
The Pavilion Family features Hubbell’s award-winning SiteSync wireless control technology.
Lumenalpha Cylinder Family
A feast for the eyes, served with a full range of optics, colours, accessories, mounting options, control possibilities, and the ability to stretch your designs further than you thought possible, Lumenalpha Cylinders are a high-performance LED lighting solution and the newest solution for this brand’s growing offering for commercial, retail and hospitality applications. The cylinder architectural family offers a wide range of sizes and lumen outputs, as well as field-changeable accessories and optics.
SORAA Sky
SORAA Sky’s lighting system recognises that blue light is helpful in the morning to make users feel rejuvenated and energised. During the day, museum-quality light with moderate blue light makes the surroundings come alive. In the evening, Sky bulbs have the unique ability to completely remove harmful blue emissions, but still provide soft white light, helping both body and mind prepare for a restful night’s sleep.
LEDCONN LUXBEAM LED Linear Lighting
LUXBEAM gives way for customisability to meet your specific needs. The LUXBEAM linear lighting system can be cut to any length in intervals of 3¼-inches, with each interval containing 24 LEDs, providing the highest possible level of brightness to illuminate your space. LUXBEAM will brightly and evenly light up any retail, office, and architectural space while seamlessly blending into the environment, allowing you and your space to BE THE FOCUS of the room.
Acclaim Lighting AL Graze AC Fixture
IP66 rated for wet and dry locations, AL Graze AC linear LED fixture offers colour temperatures ranging from 2700K-4000K, along with RGB, RGBW RGBA and Dynamic White (2400K-5500K).
Available in one and four foot sections with a linkable system for multiple configurations, AL Graze AC consumes nine watts per linear foot. The AC powered unit maintains 70% lumens at 150,000 hours and provides approximately 419 lumens per feet.
C.F. Møller
One of the largest and oldest firms in Scandinavia C.F. Møller continues to impress the design industry with its faultless, simple, environmentally friendly and sustainable creations.
C.F. Møller, owned by a collaborative group of partner architects and their associates, is one of the largest and oldest firms in Scandinavia, dating back to the 1920s. It prides itself on its expertise ranging over architectural services, landscape architecture, product design, healthcare planning and management advice on user consultation, change management, space planning, logistics, client consultancy and organisational development. With a head office based in the top five floors of the Europahaust building next to the harbour in central Aarhus, Denmark, the firm employs approximately 350 personnel with a near enough even split of male to female. The firm currently has nine partners who take residence in the Europahaust and boasts further offices internationally in Copenhagen, Aalborg, Oslo, Stockholm and London.
Architecture is a competitive industry and it is evident in many firms there is a general stereotype that there is an aspect of hierarchy and elitism amongst partners, their associates and interns. However, according to testimonials from current employees, C.F. Møller has succeeded in breaking down the status barriers and formed a highly collaborative working environment, which reinforces its unpretentious characteristic that filters down into its catalogue of work.
The firm states: “We have a vision which we strive to reach. Our strategy shall get us closer to realising this vision: We want to be among the best companies in the Nordic countries and Europe - and recognised globally. We want to influence the development of the construction industry and produce the highest possible level of architectural quality.”
Designers and architects, much like artists, strive for inspiration everywhere and anywhere. We were lucky enough to speak with one of the leading partners, Julian Weyer, about C.F. Møller, his experiences and where he gathers his inspiration within the industry. A number of the firm’s projects have acquired inspiration from international trends and the changing ideals of society. On a personal level, Weyer gains inspiration from history and his travels, unintentionally turning them into architectural study trips. Throughout the design journey, C.F. Møller strongly believe in upholding indispensable testimonials to create simple, clear and unpretentious designs that incorporate a number of guidelines to follow; awareness of the environment, resources, sensible building budgets, higher productivity, social responsibility and good craftsmanship.
Lighting and architecture go hand in hand, and when speaking with Weyer, we learnt about how light plays a crucial role within the design process of all the projects at C.F. Møller. He stated: “You could say all-important, since without light architecture loses most of its meaning.” He refers to Le Corbusier’s statement on architecture “being the play of forms under light,” but not surmising that architecture is solely visual, it is far more than that: “For instance bringing material tactility into life is typically a combination of light and touch, so light plays a key role when engaging with architecture.”
Weyer discussed how lighting is integrated into the design process and at which stage it emerges in design discussions: “This is somewhat dependent on the project and the team behind it, but generally lighting will be an integrated part of any project by the time it reaches the planning stage. Typically, the first ideas about lighting are part of the early design development, although they may still be unspecified in terms of types and techniques. This is then studied more in-depth at a later stage, where energy performance of the design is also detailed.”
Energy efficiency was a key requirement in the lighting concept for the Danish firm’s award winning creation, the Bestseller office complex, located in the Port of Aarhus, Denmark. It hosts worldwide fashion groups, with the likes of Vero Moda, Jack Jones and many more. To our delight, during the Delta Light X event in Milan in April this year, Weyer, discussed the Bestseller office complex project in great detail. When revisiting this discussion with us recently, Weyer described the process of finding the appropriate lighting designer to best fit their concept: “During the design of the Bestseller complex, we worked closely with the client to achieve the simple yet refined palette of materials and details that characterises the building, and out of this rose the need to find adequate lighting components that would integrate well with the overall architecture, and be equally simplified and well-designed in both form and performance.”
The site is comprised of an amalgamation of buildings and outside spaces all joining at different levels, connected by rooftop terraces, atriums and courtyards. Continuing on with a common theme in the works of C.F. Møller, the buildings aesthetically interlink nature, sustainability and architecture, harmoniously. The building uses a sea water cooling system and solar energy, which qualifies it as a low energy class 2015 building, resulting in a 50% drop in energy consumption, originally stated in building regulations.
With the building playing host to multiple fashion platforms and as a venue for fashion shows, lighting and design play a large part in the central atrium. C.F. Møller was in partnership with Delta Light to create simple, linear lights throughout the building that work in unity with the natural skylights. Weyer said: “Our central idea was to let the lighting of the building discreetly underline the architectural spaces, rather than become a too overtly visible technical feature. Therefore, we were looking for a wide product palette that could first and foremost be integrated with the chosen materials and other technical solutions, and we found that Delta Light could provide such a palette, and assist the process with further ideas.” The Bestseller project has won numerous awards across the board, including; Natural Stone Prize (Naturstensprisen) 2016, Winner Commercial WAN Award 2015, Special Mention in the Architizer A+ Awards for the Plus Categories | Concepts: Architecture +Landscape category 2016, Aarhus Municipality Architecture Award 2015.
However, this project is merely a drop in an ocean of success for the firm. It has collected numerous awards over the years for its excellence in the architectural industry. In 2015, students at the University for Southern Denmark were lucky enough to take up residence in the award-winning new campus accommodation in Odense, Denmark. The 360-degree perspective building houses room for 250 students over 15 floors. The design of the building forces a strong sense of community for the students. The layout comprises of seven bedrooms per section, all with their own balconies, brought together with a central living room and communal kitchen space. “Each room has a private balcony, which both helps make the homes attractive, but also has an environmental function: The shading internal balconies help manage solar gain, contributing to significant energy savings. The kitchens at the centre of each floor are shared by all, and feature generous glazed facades that ensure light and views in three directions,” said the firm.
Another notable project the firm completed is Stockholm’s new ferry terminal for permanent links between Finland and the Baltics. It is becoming a landmark both, architecturally and environmentally, for the new urban development Norra Djursgårdsstaden.
The design layout for the terminal reflects a moving vessel with large cranes and warehouses, which portrayed the ports. In addition, the project takes on an ambitious sustainable profile. The main theme for the project was to create organic links with Stockholm’s city centre and Norra Djursgårdsstaden to encourage city dwellers into the area. In previous years, residents of Aalborg in Denmark have struggled to gain access to their waterfront due to the industrial harbour and heavy traffic associated with it. In response to this industrial divide in the landscape, C.F. Møller developed a master plan that would link the city’s medieval centre with the neighbouring fjords by finding natural openings within the urban fabric. Aalborg’s medieval castle becomes the focal point in the harbour once again amongst the green expanses and historic embankments, dramatically angled netting and lit masts surrounding the area. To reinforce this passage, the terminal is raised to the same level as the urban zone, allowing easier access to pedestrians and traffic flow. Green landscapes, stairways, ramps and cosy corners invite passersby to enjoy the rooftops and relax whilst admiring the passing ferries and city skyline.
To continue with C.F. Møller’s leading sustainability theme, the terminal is energy self sufficient with integrated solar energy and geothermal heating and cooling, thus qualifying its certification to environmental level Gold.
The future of light and how it is evolving within the design industry is taking a practical turn. Weyer described his impression of the direction in which the process is heading: “There is an increasing understanding of the importance of well-planned light for the success of architecture, and not just for aesthetic reasons: efficiency in healthcare, schools or work environments for example, are now considered in relation to evidence-based knowledge and studies which includes lighting and parameters. Or the importance of safety and wayfinding in public spaces, where lighting can play a key role – and last but not least, the need to reduce energy consumptions, which is driving a lot of the design processes and has led to so much change in the lighting business that is only slowly coming around to the kind of light quality, which we enjoyed with incandescent.”
What can we expect from the firm in the future of design? Well, not surprisingly, C.F Møller are juggling numerous projects including new headquarters and office complexes for several major international brands, as well as a deep involvement with the Nordic welfare states, specifically with education, healthcare and democracy. The firm’s latest accomplishment is the brand-new Copenhagen International School, which features a unique lighting design that includes circadian lighting that changes colour temperature over the course of the day and other pre-set lighting moods that the teachers and students can manipulate themselves.
XAL PABLO
This patent pending spotlight developed specifically for galleries and museums enables custom colour enhancement for paintings and sculptures. The integrated LEDs in red and blue enhance the original colour naturalness, highlighting works’ intensity and the effect of depth. The attachments can be rotated and tilted to focus light beams on selected areas. Thanks to X-TALK Technology, any smart device can be used to control track lights individually or in groups, which leads to considerable cost savings during renovations.
Bäro Ontero ID
The Ontero ID spotlight combines simple, high-quality design with cutting-edge technology. The compact dimensions, the characteristic asymmetry and the interplay of different materials give the luminaire an elegant look. The new, innovative and highly efficient LED technology with a hybrid construction ensures that the decisive part of the light reaches the target surface through the 3D silicone lens in a controlled manner via the reflector facets and produces soft, defined light cones.
MinebeaMitsumi SALIOT track light
MinebeaMitsumi’s SALIOT is the industry’s first LED track light fixture capable of automatic adjust, 10-30-degree beam spread, 360-degree horizontal rotation, 90-degree vertical adjustment, on and off switching and 1-100% dimming, all from the palm of your hand. Using a smart device-based app for iOS or Android, the one-touch controls can work for a single light or an entire linked network – up to 100 lights.
Cooledge TILE Exterior
Cooledge TILE Exterior is a wet location LED system that frees light from the constraints of fixtures to illuminate any architectural geometry and give designers new ways to accentuate building façades. Designed as a complete IP65 rated system, TILE Exterior’s modular, flexible form scales easily to cover large surface areas while a smaller set of FIT segments allow quick configuration around angles, corners and site obstacles to seamlessly illuminate exterior architectural structures.
David Morgan Review: TM Lighting TM Slim Light Pro
TM Lighting has created a niche in the world of art lighting, by venturing into the previously unexplored area of lighting private art collections. Here, David Morgan looks at the firm’s new TM Slim Light Pro.
Good quality lighting is needed to bring out the best in valuable paintings and other artwork.
While professional gallery and museum lighting is generally well considered, the lighting of artworks in private and heritage collections has until recently been fairly basic. The traditional picture light, incorporating linear incandescent or LV Xenon lamps with limited beam control, was used as a form of indirect wall light and did little to enhance the artwork. They performed quite poorly as lighting tools, producing a hot spot of light at the top of the picture and often making the frame brighter than the artwork. Little of the light ended up in the centre of the picture where it is generally most needed and the projected heat would, over time, damage sensitive pigments.
At the bottom end of the market picture lights became commodity products available at low prices through retail distribution. While more expensive picture lights incorporating halogen lamps had better light quality and beam control projecting more light towards the centre of the painting, they also projected heat and some UV radiation, both undesirable in this application.
With the fairly recent introduction of high CRI LEDs, more sophisticated and effective picture lighting systems are now becoming widely used by discerning art collectors and curators. The rise in the value of artworks has helped to justify the higher costs of better lighting equipment.
A number of UK companies have entered this market in the past decade to take advantage of the growing interest in good quality picture illumination.
TM Lighting was launched in London in 2010 by Harry Triggs and Andrew Molyneux, who had both worked in the lighting industry for a decade as lighting designer and luminaire designer for other companies. They have what they describe as ‘a passion for the art world and a mission to improve picture lighting quality’.
It would seem as though their introduction to the art lighting market came via a chance encounter with one of their early customers, who was an eccentric art dealer and collector who pretended to be a butler and introduced his picture restorer as his master. Later it transpired that he was in fact a former art dealer to Lucien Freud, and close friend of Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. Shortly after the meeting he commissioned TM Lighting to make the first set of TM Picture lights, to light his significant collection of modern art. These were designed, manufactured and delivered within two months.
The latest picture lighting range to be launched by TM Lighting is the TM Slim Light Pro. As the name implies, this range has a smaller body than their earlier larger and more traditionally shaped products and is only 19mm in diameter.
A series of tightly binned 95 CRI LEDs fitted with lenses to give precise beam control are housed in the machined aluminium body. A wide variety of lengths and finishes are available and a simple anti-glare accessory can be fitted to cut off any stray light. The modular design is suitable for artworks from 200 to 2,000mm width, and can illuminate canvases up to 2,500mm in height. The lighting head can rotate through 60-degrees. The mounting arm fits into a holder that is generally screwed to the picture frame. The LED driver is remote and can also be fitted to the picture frame. In the sample I was shown a manual dimmer was fitted to the driver so that the light level on each picture in a space can be tuned to work with the ambient lighting and to balance the lit effect.
The demonstration luminaire lit a sample picture evenly across the whole picture surface with a good rendition of reds as would be expected with LEDs rated at 95 CRI. As the light level was dimmed down, the colour rendition quality seemed to be maintained quite well even at the lower light levels. Some competitors are offering warm to dim options in their LED picture lights, which TM Lighting consider to be inappropriate but I would think this could be a popular option for less discerning users if the ambient lighting in the space also had this feature.
TM Lighting has rapidly established itself in the world of art galleries, collectors, artists and lighting designers with a glittering client list including Antony Gormley, Damien Hurst and Conrad Shawcross.
All products are made and assembled in the UK, which enables the company to work closely with its customers to produce custom versions designed specifically for each project.
The company is now expanding into other product types for the same market with a range of high CRI LED spotlights for use in lighting three-dimensional artwork, and also for retail display applications. A variety of other custom luminaire developments based on their high CRI light engines have also been undertaken for clients.
It is encouraging to see another UK startup company carving out a successful niche in a specific area of the lighting market based on high levels of product performance, quality and customer service. I am sure the TM Slim Light Pro will be a useful addition to their range.
David Morgan runs David Morgan Associates, a London-based international design consultancy, specialising in luminaire design and development, and is also managing director of Radiant Architectural Lighting.
Email: david@dmadesign.co.uk
Web: www.dmadesign.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8340 4009
© David Morgan Associates 2017
Trilux ARAXEON LED
Today, lighting designers and electrical contractors have high demands and look for energy-efficient, application-specific planning solutions that are also simple and can be intelligently controlled. The ARAXEON LED enables the advantages of LED technology. The slender weatherproof luminaire is also intelligent: together with sensors or a light management system, practical and energy-saving functions can be implemented. The ARAXEON LED also makes full use of today’s LED technology benefits due to its modern design.
