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editor’s note
Dear Readers,
Happy New Year! I trust that the holiday season was filled with good food, happy
reunions and a break from the daily grind. It’s the beginning of another new year and
as usual – all too exciting! 2015 just flew past just like that and we’re back to figuring
out our New Year’s resolutions and how to finally achieve them… or not ;-)
This year’s first issue of Lighting Today includes a series of brand new projects and
products that that have emerged in the market not too long ago. The Cover Story
itself is a spanking new project that has just been completed within a matter of
weeks of publication – the Suntec City Convention Centre & Shopping Mall. The
redevelopment of this rather iconic building in Singapore has created an opportunity
for better architecture, lighting design and sustainability efforts in order to create an
aesthetically pleasing and comfortable environment for all patrons and visitors.
This issue has also been graced with some exciting new projects from around the
globe – from luxury hotels and a car museum to a Japanese factory and the façade of
a bank’s headquarters… we truly bring you a diverse mix of lighting design projects.
Read on to find out more.
2016 is set to be an exciting year with many exhibitions and expositions within the
lighting industry. Do check out our “Show Preview” section for a sneak peek into
some of these events.
On another note, it is with bittersweet feelings to share that I will no longer be with
the team at Lighting Today and henceforth will be moving on into the next exciting
chapter in my life. Being the editor of this publication for slightly more than two
years has taken me places – I’ve travelled to some pretty amazing countries, met
some awesome individuals (like you!) and of course, I’ve learnt a lot about lighting
design and how it makes a difference to my world. Thank you for this.
For those whom I have gotten the opportunity to know personally, do keep in touch
– and those of you whom I haven’t had the chance to meet, I hope to work with you
in the near future.
From Lighting Today Volume 2 onwards, I leave you in the hands of the new editor of
Lighting Today.
I wish you all the best as I bid adieu.
Jo-Ann Elicia Teo
Editor
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Contents
008 Light Talk by Martin Klaasen
010 Lighting in the News
052 020 Show Preview
• Maison & Objet Asia 2016
• Light + Building 2016
• LED Expo & Thailand Energy Saving Week 2016
030 Show Review
• Shanghai International Lighting Fair 2015
• Light Middle East 2015
• Hong Kong International Lighting Fair
/ World Outdoor Lighting & Accessories 2015
• EcolightTech Asia 2015
038 Special Feature
• Inspirations & Lighting Design
• DIALux EVO
• Aurora
058 058 Cover Story
• Suntec City Convention Centre & Shopping Mall
112 Lighting Façades and Landscapes
• AYA Bank Headquarters Office (Rowe Building)
• Tilikum Crossing
074 Lighting Spatial Envelopes
• 21c Museum Hotel
• Geedee Car Museum
• Nuo Hotel
• Ishioka Factory
104 Lighting Controls
072 •
• LiCS System Networks for Building Solutions
Janus Intelligent Light System with PLC technology
• The Vivido Wall Mount Five-scene Keypad
• DIM10 Lighting Controllers
090 108 Illumina Product Showcase
• Moonring Luminaire
• Street Lighting with VS LED Technology
112 Product Focus
Interior / Exterior
120 Events & Expositions /
Advertisers Index
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Gedee Car Museum
Coimbatore, India
Text: Dr. Amardeep M. Dugar
Client: GD Naidu Charities, Coimbatore/India
Lighting Design: Lighting Research & Design, Chennai/India
Luminaire Supply & Installation Support: Architectural Lighting Concepts,
Chennai/India & Gojis Lifestyle, Coimbatore/India
Photography: Rajesh Menon
LPD: 0.15 W/ft2
Products Applied: Abby Bro 10W LED Track Spotlights
ERCO Opton 12W LED Track Spotlights
Pollux 6W LED Track Framing Projectors
Pollux 2W LED Track Spotlights
Prolicht C.S.I 10.3W LED Surface Downlights
Nitro 10.3W LED Track Spotlights
A replica of the first
automobile in the world –
1885 Benz Motorwagen
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The posters on the curving driveway depicting the evolution of
automobiles starting from the wheel are washed using warm-white
light with flood optics to recreate the aura of that time period.
T he newly opened Gedee Car
Museum in Coimbatore is a
tribute to Gopalswamy Doraiswamy
over the world is put on show at this
museum.
Naidu a.k.a. GD Naidu (1893–1974), Touted as one of its k ind in India,
a well-k nown scientist, inventor, some of the exhibited cars at the
educationalist and philanthropist, Gedee Car Museum are not to be
also referred to as the Edison of seen anywhere else in the countr y.
India. A versatile genius and school Although GD Naidu Charities own
dropout, his contributions span the most cars, as many as eight special
fields of agricultural, automobile, cars were the benevolent donation
electrical, industrial, and mechanical of vintage car enthusiasts and auto
engineering. His list of many aficionados who wanted to share
inventions includes mak ing papayas their pricey possessions with the
sweeter, super-thin shaving blades general public. According to Gopal,
and the first electric motor in India “ The main objective of the museum
(that never reached production!). is to highlight the technological
He was an icon for Coimbatore, the progress from the bir th of the car, the
second largest city in the state of various innovations and inventions
Tamil Nadu, and played a vital role which happened over a period of
in various developments in the city time, and the people behind it.”
and the nation including industries With around 70 different car models,
and infrastructure. One of his dreams ever y significant development
was to open an automobile museum in the automobile industr y is on
for displaying his private collection, display. Additionally, Gopal wanted
as he was totally enchanted by to “ignite young minds” by housing
automobiles. His son GD Gopal Naidu, the museum in the same building as
the Managing Trustee of GD Naidu the GD Technical Training Institute,
Charities (Owners of the museum) so that students of the institute can
has now fulfilled this dream. GD obser ve these engineering mar vels
Naidu’s collection of vintage cars and be spurred to invent mar vels of
along with a lot of wheels from all their own.
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Considerable amount of research
went into the design process, which
required more than two years. The
owners realizing the impor tance
of lighting for appropriately
highlighting the exhibits decided
to involve a lighting designer early
on in the project. Lighting Research
& Design were appointed as the
lighting designers of the museum
after an exclusive inter view with its
founder and principal, Dr. Amardeep
M. Dugar. The initial brief was to
only exhibit 20-25 cars. However the
lighting design had to be flexible
enough to incorporate any additions
to the museum collection, which
finally grew to around 70 cars.
Track lighting seemed the ideal
solution as they offer flexibility
in highlighting the exhibits as
well as provide ample scope for
future additions. The owners’ keen
drive towards energy-efficient
technologies fur ther narrowed the
scope down to LED-based track
lighting. Additionally, accentuation
and creation of visual drama of
a vintage environment required
appropriate optical control, which
could only be provided with LED
technology. After extensive research
on the available LED-based track
lighting systems for cars (including
visits to various car museums and
showrooms), discussions with
various luminaire manufacturers and
several mock-ups, track luminaires
from ERCO were shor tlisted for their
light quality, lumen output and the
innate flexibility offered by their
interchangeable lenses. However,
as the owners had a specific budget
allocated for lighting (which
unfor tunately did not grow like
their car collection!), it was decided
to use a combination of luminaires
from ERCO, Prolicht and Abby.
Spread-out over a sprawling
20,[Link], the museum is actually
a basement park ing lot. The museum
layout consists of a cur ving driveway (Above) The chronological display of
leading up to the main hall with cars begins with the five unique cars.
Appropriate ‘highlight’ car lighting
five alternating bays of display and treatment of general wash with flood
galler y space. The displays include optics and accentuation with spot
cars, accessories and their associated optics, along with framing projectors
for highlighting specific areas of the
documentation in the form of posters. posters is provided for these cars.
The galler y consists of dedicated
passageways for visitor movement. (Right) This chronological display of
Hence the overall lighting strategy cars ends with modern racing cars.
was divided into three types of (Far Right) Low illumination levels
treatments: display lighting, galler y and appropriate optical control in the
lighting and special-effect lighting. gallery space reduces light spill into
The museum experience star ts from the display space, thereby resulting
in minimal interference with the
the cur ving driveway itself with lighting of the cars, and creation of a
posters depicting the evolution of sense of drama and mystery.
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(Opposite) The same warm colour
temperature of the driveway is
maintained in the AV room as well.
Theme-based video shows on the
history of automobiles are played at
regular intervals.
(Top) ‘Small’ car lighting typology –
either a spot or a flood optic is used
to illuminate small-sized cars.
(Below) ‘Large’ car lighting typology
– oval flood optics is used to wash
the entire length of the large cars.
Additional accentuation is provided
with a combination of spot and flood
optics.
automobiles star ting from the wheel.
At the end of the driveway is an
Audio-Visual (AV ) room for theme -
based video shows on the histor y
of automobiles. Display lighting for
the posters is provided using Abby
Bro 10W track spotlights with flood
optics. The posters in the driveway
and AV room are washed in warm-
white light to recreate the aura of
that time period.
After this enthralling journey
through time, visitors enter the
alternating galler y and display
spaces with cars that are arranged
chronologically : from the five unique
cars that significantly impacted the
automobile histor y, to modern racing
cars. Appropriate documentation in
the form of posters is displayed for
each car explaining its evolution
with respect to the automobile
industr y as a whole. Galler y lighting
is provided using 4000K Prolicht C.S.I
10.3W sur face -mounted cylindrical
downlights with spot optic for
appropriate general illumination
to facilitate visitor movement.
The lighting level for the galler y is
deliberately kept low for minimal
light spill and non-inter ference
with the display and special-effect
lighting. The owners had to be
educated that dark ness is pivotal
for creating a sense of drama and
myster y in a museum environment.
Display lighting for the cars is
provided using a combination of
ERCO Opton 12W spotlights with
interchangeable spot, flood and
oval-flood optics, and Prolicht Nitro
10.3W spotlights with flood optics.
The display lighting of the cars
is fur ther categorised into ‘small,’
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Lighting typology ‘Highlight’ car – a general wash using 2700K
and 3000K warm-white light with flood optic is first provided
for the highlight cars. Then certain important elements like
the number “53” on the Volkswagen Beetle’s hood is given
prominence using 4000K neutral-white light with spot optic.
‘medium’ and ‘large’, according to the size of cars so as to facilitate legibility
of their details. A generic lighting typology is applied for each car size in
terms of optics and colour temperature. Either a spot or a flood optic is
used for small cars, while a combination of the two is used for medium cars.
Oval-flood optics along with spot and flood optics is used for the larger
cars. The interchangeable lens technology from ERCO was extremely useful
in experimenting and arriving at the best possible optics for highlighting
a par ticular car. Any additional accentuation for cer tain key elements of
the car such as logos or insignia is provided using ERCO Pollux 2W track
spotlight with narrow-spot optics. The pigment colour of the cars’ paint or
posters is used as a basis for selecting the colour temperature of light. For
example, 2700K or 3000K is used for pigments in warm tones such as red,
brown or gold, while 4000K is used for pigments in cool tones such as blue
or silver. The choice of colour temperature for neutral pigment tones such
as black or white is based on their time period. For example, 2700K or 3000K
is used for cars from an older time period, while 4000K is used for cars from
a more recent time period.
While each car in the museum has its own histor y, the underlying lighting
theme was to provide a visual hierarchy based on the historical significance
of these cars. Cars responsible for either a path-break ing paradigm shift in
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The 1912 Ridge Multi being GD Naidu’s first automobile is rendered
with a ‘highlight’ car treatment. The body of the motorcycle is
illuminated using 4000K neutral-white light with flood optic.
However, the wooden carriage at the rear given prominence using
3000K warm-white light with spot optic for contrast.
automobile histor y or any other historical event of significance are treated
as ‘highlight ’ cars. For example, the five unique cars are treated as highlight
cars. Therefore, a highlight car is first provided with a general wash to
recreate its time period using flood or oval-flood optics depending upon
its size. Then its special features, which have a cer tain historical significance
such as bumpers, headlights, hood, seats or wheels, are accentuated using
spot or narrow-spot optics. A combination of 2700K , 3000K and 4000K is
used for the special-effect lighting instead of the standard typology of a
single colour temperature based on pigment colours. ERCO Pollux 6W
framing projectors are used to highlight impor tant information depicted
on the posters of these highlight cars. Special-effect lighting appropriately
accentuates these cars and recreates their actual time period to add visual
drama.
Lighting only adds to the visual drama of the space by not only mak ing the
cars legible, but also enhancing the overall visitor experience. The use of
LED lighting technology has resulted in an LPD of only 0.15W/ft2. For the
Edison of India who did not receive the credit that was due to him by his
countr y or its people, a lighting experience such as this is indeed a fitting
tribute! ■
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