046 AUDITORIUM LIGHTING / GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE, GUANGZHOU, CHINA
A traditional downlight lighting solution was inadvisable in the perfectly curved shell of the auditorium. The solution was a constellation of very small white LED downlights, supplied by Philips Lumileds. To gain accurate illumination data, Light & View built computational models and carried out many laboratory and field experiments for comparison. The low light level LED concept met with fierce resistance by the engineers but the lighting team pressed ahead, certain of its success.