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Out and About Architainment Lighting Pioneer Point Ilford, Essex


5 Pioneer Point Architainment Lighting transform the Essex skyline


Empire Property Group International (EPGI) Pioneer Point developer, wanted to create a bold and vibrant lighting scheme for two 370 feet residential towers which now illuminate Ilford. They approached CEO of GDS, Michael Kirchmann, to design something special. He used lighting and controls supplied by Architainment Lighting.


Each iColor Flex LMX strand consists of 50 individually addressable LED nodes with one foot spacing. For Pioneer Point, Architainment Lighting delivered a total of 5,753 nodes, each encased in frosted housing, and was installed by London and Regent Construction Ltd. Architainment Lighting’s skilled technical team


application developed by Pharos Controls. The system is connected to an Ethernet network throughout the building and facilitates customer control over WiFi. These digital light walls can display certain key dates in the annual calendar such as Valentines, Christmas and New Year and are programmed to do so automatically on the LPC X. A display of visual effects varying in colour, direction, speed and shape will be seen daily from sunset to midnight at Pioneer Point. Commenting on the project’s success GDS CEO, Michael Kirchmann, said: “Working with Architainment throughout this project has been tremendously rewarding and helpful. They have gone


commissioned and programmed the lighting using a Pharos LPC 40 with a custom web page which was installed in the site’s management suite by Pharos Controls.


The LED specialist provided Philips Color Kinetics iColor Flex LMX, a flexible strand of high-intensity, full-colour LED nodes, designed to illuminate without the constraints of fixture size or shape. The iColor Flex LMX was fitted within the interior of each tower’s emergency staircase, creating a pixelated pattern through which content can run seamlessly. The result was a low resolution digital light wall, clearly visible through the towers’ 17,200 square metres of mainly glass facades.


The lighting can be adjusted remotely thanks to a ‘Pioneer Point iPhone


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above and beyond anything we could have hoped for and thanks to them, and everyone else involved, the project has been a great success and exceeded all expectations. Through a collaborative effort we have produced a piece of art of which Ilford’s residents can be proud.” The Essex skyline now has a new landmark in the form of Pioneer Point all thanks to the collaborative creation from companies including New York’s Global Design Strategies (GDS) and UK specialist lighting solutions provider, Architainment Lighting Ltd.


Contact Architainment Lighting Ltd T: +44 (0)1494 471340 W: www.architainment.co.uk


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