ARCHITECTURAL
project
Star Place, Kaohsiung
54 MEDIA FACADE
TAIWAN
of power consumption for each control system programming. modules are used, and the total
UNSTUDIO TEAM:
LED colour per sqm of glass: a UNStudio developed the story- of high power RGB tricoloured
bright, integrated and sustainable board for different lighting scenes, LEDs reaches as high as 12,000.
Ben van Berkel, Caroline
solution. starting from the ‘Rising Star’ to At night, coloured lighting replac-
Bos, Astrid Piber with Ger
Van der Heide and Arup’s product special imagery for festivities on es the optical effects produced
Gijzen, Christian Veddeler,
designer travelled to Kaohsiung Valentines Day, Chinese New by the depth embedded in the
Mirko Bergmann, Albert
to meet with the client and AOP Year and others. Using anima- façade motif with a fluid layer of
Gnodde, Sebastian Schott,
during every stage of the project; tion software a broad series of changing hues and tones. In Tai- Freddy Koelemeijer, Katja
scheduling their trips together with images was generated and tested wan, a country with a tradition of Groeger, Jirka Bars,
the architect’s visits, making the over some weeks on the façade. late-night shopping and markets,
Andreas Brink, Simon
most of everyone’s efforts. The architects in Amsterdam the night time appearance of Star
Kortemeier, Shu Yan Chan
As in most complex lighting proj- were able to see the lighting tests Place is highly relevant.
ects based on tailor-made solu- through a camera connection on
www.arup.com/lighting
ARUP LIGHTING TEAM:
tions, the manufacturer played a their computers and, together with
www.unstudio.com
Rogier van der Heide IALD,
crucial role in the project. Several AOP and Lightlife, the finetuning
Simone Collon, Sheela
were considered, but AOP, turned of the lighting sequences could
out to be the most flexible, inter- take place in real time
Sankaram
ested, and accomodating party, The project was completed after
determined to create an integrat- two years of cooperative planning
LIGHTING SUPPLIERS:
ed solution and offering all their which van der Heide considers
Alliance Optotek, e:cue
expertise and experts, including typical for a project of this scale
Electronics Development Division and complexity. 2,500 LED light
Director, Acer Lin and System
Control Manager, Eric Huang. Lightlife was responsible for the e:cue
Arup Lighting visited AOP fre-
programming, generating a broad series
of images using animation software
quently evaluating test setups and
prototypes. Much information was
exchanged and all Arup’s product
design drawings were evaluated
by AOP. Many of their comments
led to a better design and were
included in the drawings. As with
UNStudio, by collaborating with
AOP, they were able to deliver the
best results.
The jointly designed product,
manufactured by AOP, compares
to nothing currently available on
the market. It’s a true edge-light-
ing product sending all its light
into the glass at specific angles
creating a uniform glow. Added
van der Heide “The bespoke light
fitting works closely together with
the glass fritted pattern especially
designed for this purpose and for
the dimensions of the glass panel
in combination with flux and dis-
tribution of the light fitting.”
In a strong vote of confidence to
this new kid on the LED block,
van der Heide declared, “AOP’s
standard products form a wide
range of LED applications for
specific purposes as well as some
generic products. It’s all of a
quality comparable to other large
manufacturers of architectural
LED lighting products.”
Highly accomplished e:cue
programmers, Lightlife did the
Pic: Christian Richters
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