Indosat is the primary provider of international telecommunication services in Indonesia and is involved in all forms of satellite and communication media. It wanted a facility that truly reflected its technologically advanced nature and drive for innovation not only in the interior environment but also projected on the exterior.
The scale and magnitude of the project required 400 units of LOA-333 Linear Optical Array (LOA) to create two giant rings - one at the top of the 25-storey building and the other around the roof of the podium at the front of the building. A further 600 units of the LOA-33 were then to be located in four massive columns, each containing 15 parallel lines, positioned down the four narrow faces of the corner of the hexagonal building. The LOA were selected because of the bright and consistent colour effect offered, the IP65 rating available and ease of programming using standard DMX.
In order to maintain the original architectural design of the Indosat building, it was necessary for the 600 units of LOA-333 to be located behind the heavily tinted glass cladding and only be visible when illuminated at night. The tinted glass cladding on the walls posed a difficult challenge for all manner of light to pierce clearly through and be seen from great distances, but even more so for coloured ones. The OptiLED LOA-333 with its intense 15-degree beam of light accomplished the task effortlessly.Because of the simplicity of the OptiLED LOA-333 installation and cabling, the system was fully installed by Indosat's own engineers and technicians with remote guidance from thousands of miles away, after which OptiLED's engineers went on site to perform system commissioning, programming and training.
"The challenge of producing and implementing the treatment for the Indosat building were daunting at the outset considering the sheer size of the project and the technical hurdles," said Keith Gallacher, OptiLED's general manager, Asia Pacific. The impressive results, however, clearly demonstrate the unparalleled quality of our products and service as we smoothly overcame a technically demanding and large-scale design plan."
Indosat's general property manager, Oetoro Oesman, added: "The objective for us was to find a supplier that could not only fulfil a difficult design idea on a massive scale, but to deliver the results within a very short lead time. The LOA series that OptiLED provided were very easy to install, enabling us to do so via remote instruction, and produced lighting effects that more than surpassed our expectations."
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
