Clay Paky, as one of Light & Building’s exhibitors, provided projection equipment to a number of sites. The botanical garden in Frankfurt’s Palmen Garden became ‘Tropicolors’ - the large glasshouse, with its dome, balconies overlooking the garden, numerous paths for visitors and fountain - lit for the occasion by CP Color 400 colour-changing luminaires. The lighting design, developed by designers Mick O’Callaghan and Thorsten Zank (from design company Enjoy), together with Lights & Color of Paderborn (distributor of Clay Paky architectural products for Germany), included ChromaPanel, ChromaDome, ChromaBank and ChromaStrip LED-based lighting fixtures from Pulsar. At the entrance to Tropicolors, two V.I.P. 300 DIA projectors from Clay Paky’s Display Line, specially designed for visual communication, projected luminous ‘posters’ with information on the tropical garden. Lighting control was from an MA Lighting grandMA console.
Elsewhere in the Palmen Garden, Clay Paky colour changers were used to light the beautiful villa facing the glasshouse: this perfectly conserved historical building has white interior and exterior walls, ideal for these lighting effects. The outdoor CP Color 150-E projectors (with an IP65 protection rating) were used for lighting the facade, while the CP Color 250 illuminated the interior. A wide path was lined with a series of Philips neon lamps up to two metres high, linking Tropicolors and the villa with one of Luminale’s most evocative lighting compositions.
Saint Catherine’s Church was the setting for another key Luminale project. Situated in Frankfurt’s famous pedestrian shopping area, the church was surrounded by a multitude of brightly-coloured shop windows. Lighting designer Antonious Quod decided to illuminate the church from the inside: this was the first stop in the ‘Lichtspended’ (gifts of light) campaign, designed to give this purely commercial area a new lighting design, enhancing historical and artistic monuments. The lighting inside the church, focused mainly on the dome, was achieved using eight Clay Paky CP Color 400s.
(Lee Baldock)
