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ART & DESIGN / 100W CHALLENGE
LOW-POWER DRESSING
Five UK practices took up the IALD’s challenge of creating a six-room scheme with just 100 watts.
For a second year, IALD UK threw down the 100W Challenge to five top lighting design practices, inviting them to create a series of creatively illuminated scenes on a chosen theme, while using a maximum of 100W in total. Running from 2-7 March, the challenge took place in The House Next Door, a five floor Victorian house-turned-event-space in Stoke Newington, London. Each practice was given a day to transform six of the
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BDP BDP transformed the house into a grisly display of the seven deadly sins, man’s worst attributes, utilising the medium of light. Pride, greed, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth and wrath were all represented using gels to colour the LED strips and numerous props to enhance the effect. In the case of ‘gluttony’, 20 boxes of Quality Street sweets became both set dressing and lighting tool, their wrappers acting as filters. www.bdp.com
WATTS USED: 100W Photos: Alex Trylski
building’s rooms using 17m of LED tape. Such is the efficiency of the tape, that this length required just 100W, a level of power that was, until relatively recently, used by a single light ‘bulb’ to illuminate a single room in a house. The 100W Challenge demonstrates how far lighting technology has developed in recent decades, and proves an interesting exercise in combing energy efficiency with design knowledge to create intriguing results.
BDP, dpa, Light Bureau, GIA Equation and Paul Nulty Lighting Design all fielded teams for the event, which was this year organised by IALD UK Projects Manager Emma Cogswell, Associate IALD; Stuart Knox of Architectural FX; and Simon Thorp of LAPD. Invaluable support was provided by series of sponsors and their technicians: Architainment, Architectural FX, EldoLED, LED Linear Germany, and LED Linear UK. www.iald.org