058 PROJECT / ANDAZ, HAWAII, USA
AND RELAX...
Focus Lighting has once again worked with the architects of Rockwell Group to create a tranquil environment for guests at this luxurious resort hotel.
The expansive 15-acre resort at Mokapu Beach has recently taken on a new life as the Andaz Maui at Wailea. The lighting design team at Focus Lighting worked with the architects from Rockwell Group and the landscape architects from Site Concepts International to re-invent the 290-room re- sort to an experience that is woven into the surrounding environment of Mokapu Beach. “We wanted to create a serene experience for guests, starting with a sense of pro- cession beginning at the resort entry drive and leading all the way down to Mokapu Beach,” says lighting designer Stephanie Daigle. From the moment guests arrive on the resort grounds, they are surrounded by
30-foot-tall monkeypod and banyan trees lit by firelight from a procession of tiki torches. Down the drive, small adjustable LED bullet fixtures are concealed within the tree canopies to light the tropical plants below.
Leading to the hotel lobby, a long bridge flanked by reflecting pools frames the view through the lobby and out over Mokapu Beach and the Pacific Ocean. Direct/indi- rect steplights integrated into the bridge columns illuminate the walkway while providing a soft uplight glow between the double column faces and reflecting off the water below.
The bridge reaches the open-air hotel
lobby with a 25-foot-high pitched ceiling and glass walls that retract completely to provide unimpeded views of the beach and allow the ocean breeze to flow through the space. Though the space is grand, the lighting brings the focus lower within the space to create a more intimate, residential atmosphere.
The path again scales down as visitors venture outside of the lobby and past the four-level pool deck and cascading water- falls along stairs that are lit with louvered LED steplights and are partially illuminated by the blue glow emanating from the pools. The guests’ procession culminates at the scenic Mokapu Beach. Careful consideration
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