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Left The use of soft washes of warm light on the brick arches creates a calm but rich background ambience, contrasting to the cool white lighting on the product displays. Top A series of customer zones were created within the open plan space. Cool white lighting has been used for ambient lighting within the work zones. Above The showroom's location under the brick railway arches provides an atmospheric volume with high vaulted soffits and textured brickwork throughout.
Working within these restraints and to simplify the installation process, studioFRACTAL developed each lighting feature as a series of modular components that could be easily assembled on site. The 5.5m diameter entrance lobby feature comprises eight elements that were fixed together on site and winched into place via a permanent hydraulic winch. If access is required above to inspect the fixings, the feature can be lowered to the ground. For Payne, one of the standout features of the project was the client’s conviction that lighting should be fundamental to the environment that they wanted to create. The client team instantly responded to the proposed lighting concept with great enthusiasm and understanding of how
important the lighting would be in creating a positive experience and while there was a capped overall construction budget, studioFRACTAL was asked to provide what they thought the lighting budget should be. “This was a very rare opportunity to input how much of the overall budget should be allocated to lighting,” said Payne. “While I am sure that our proposed budgets would have come as a bit of a shock, compared with what would have been spent historically on a CP Hart showroom, it wasn’t challenged and we were allowed to produce a scheme that is worth every penny.” www.studiofractal.co.uk
PROJECT DETAILS CP Hart Showroom, London, UK Client: CP Hart Architect: Morrow Lorraine Architects Lighting Design: studioFRACTAL
LIGHTING SPECIFIED Bespoke decorative lighting features in reception lobby and bar / cafe manufactured by Universal Fibre Optics Made Chicago floor lamps Flos F-80 recessed LED spotlights Flos Easy KAP 105 recessed spotlights Flos suspended Light Bell LED pendants iGuzzini Palco track mounted LED spotlights Deltalight Spy on 83033 surface mounted LED spotlights Projection Lighting Alpha LED Micro 70 recessed LED spotlights Architainment LED Linear VarioLED Flex Hydra HD15 LED lighting tape Architainment LED Linear VarioLED Flex Side View HD20 LED lighting tape] Architainment Dynalite lighting control system