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Left Dux Lighting Button D220 LEDs mounted within Illume Opal resin hexagons provide feature lighting to garden areas either side of the centre's south stair entry. Middle Darkon Mr T direct/indirect LED profile luminaires light up the gap between wall and staircase. Bottom Prolicht Oiko-up downlights are recessed into colander light fittings on the hexagonal ceiling of My Mother's Kitchen and Prolicht Invader downlights illuminate the rolling pin columns of the same eating area.
After being awarded the AIA 2015 IALD Lighting Prize for best architectural lighting NSW and the IES Lighting Design Award of Excellence 2015 NSW Chapter, GPT Group’s Wollongong Central West Keira project in Wollongong, Australia has gained international recognition. Its interpretive architecture combined with integrated lighting to create an immersive shopping experience. Each element of the project is unique and bespoke, drawing strong parallels to the surrounding landscape that make the local region distinctive. The lighting design looked to enhance the architectural form of the new-age shopping centre in a timeless and integrated fashion, providing a base for the retail tenants to connect themselves organically. With a budget half that of similar projects, the Electrolight design team worked in close collaboration with the architects HDR Rice Daubney to achieve the desired result. This concept was achieved by minimising a reliance on conventional downlighting, and strategically selecting and locating luminaires within architectural details to illuminate form and enhance volume. The success of this strategy is owing to a collective vision, attention to detail and meticulous co-ordination with the HDR Rice Daubney architectural team throughout the entire design process. The architecture evolved into a vibrant and colourful interior space encompassing a diverse range of visual experiences. This presented the challenge of illuminating each area to enhance these themes, whilst still maintaining a consistent language throughout without appearing as a patchquilt of lighting applications. The lighting scheme looks to nurture the form and materials of the architecture, providing a natural rhythmic flow of light and relief.