Owner Gary Brown, together with Pete Williams of AVL, gave i-vision’s Geoff Jones the brief to design and realise an exterior lighting scheme. The stone constructed building posed several challenges - with dark grey stone proving a less than ideal lighting canvas!
Jones has lit the front façade with seven Superlight CDM 150 up/downlighters. Each fixture is fitted with a blue dichroic for the downlight and a magenta dichroic for the uplight. This method was employed to break up the architectural lines of the frontage, producing a dynamic blue wash over the lower half, and an eye-catching magenta sweep across the first floor. MA250 blue asymmetric floods were used to complete the picture on this façade, beaming onto the tiled roof.
The end elevation of the building is the most prominent feature to any passing traffic. Jones continues the blue/magenta theme here, this time achieving the colouration using M400 asymmetric floods, top and bottom, with Colourite 400W lamps. At the rear of the premises is the entrance to the new nightclub (scheduled to open in early 2003) and the car park. After consideration, it was also decided to carry through the overall lighting scheme into this area, again using the 150CDM up/downlighters with blue/magenta dichroic filters.
(Ruth Rossington)
