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Above Produced by lighting designers Radiance 35, the map shows the Namur streets chosen to benefit from the new lighting design. The pink indicates buildings that have had individual architectural features highlighted, the purple shows buildings that have had their exterior lighting entirely overhauled. The blue circles highlight adapted street lighting sources.
lighting. The designers, Isabelle Corten from Radiance 35 and David Decellier, a street lighting designer at ORES, a team which deal with concerns about public and patrimonial lighting, wished to produce a plan which improved the experience of any pedestrian walking around the district. They also planned for the building facades to act like tapestries hung in a museum, the bas- reliefs and the individual details and motifs highlighted, telling the story of Art Deco design to anyone walking the streets. Three main thoroughfares were chosen to benefit from the scheme, three streets which it was thought best represented the design of the quarter, with numerous major features such as sculptures, window frames, lines, mouldings and reliefs on show.
It was decided that 44 individual facades would be lit, with 90 LED spotlights being installed with five different beam angles. LEC Lyon designed and produced over 235 lightbars and spotlights for the project with each fixture being specially adapted in size and lighting effect to suit each individual feature on the building facades. Lightbars were manufactured in twenty different lengths from 30 to 200cm and each one was painted with a RAL colour corresponding to the colour of the facade. The bars were equipped with 164 LEDs per metre minimis- ing the space required.
The lighting had to be invisible to the eye in daylight and during the evening and it was required by law to be low power to avoid the installation of additional protec-
tive cables. Due to these limitations all the LEC products are 24V. The lighting equally had to be developed to suit the standards of local authorities and the regulations sur- rounding listed buildings, of which there are many in the area.
Functional street lighting was upgraded too, with the old sodium lights being replaced with metal halide which emit a white beam. “We had to gather the necessary authori- sation from each resident or owner,” says David Decellier, “and a project meeting was organised to present the equipment that was going to be installed.”
“The ultimate adjustments were made in situ and the installation had to be complet- ed at night and precautions taken so as not to annoy residents in the process.”
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