PROJECT / ASPERS, STRATFORD CITY, UK / HOLLAND CASINO SCHEVENINGEN, NETHERLANDS 119
Left Gravity Design had to meet strict light levels with excellent colour rendition on the tables at Aspers to allow the CCTV and the croupiers to work efficiently. Right The newly created escalators are the design focus of Holland Casino Scheveningen and ‘opens up’ the venue. The Bique Lighting custom-designed LED lighting interacts with the escalators’ shape and form to create mesmerising effects.
A PAIR OF ACES
Two casinos have received major refurbishments, both benefiting from Projection Lighting AlphaLED specification as well as a host of other decorative lighting features.
Casino lighting is an area of lighting design where many specific tasks unique to this type of venue have to be considered on all schemes. High lumen output, good colour rendition and sharpness are extremely important around the playing tables to en- able the croupiers and CCTV to work well. In addition, due to the long opening hours of casinos (often 24 hours a day), operating and maintenance costs are a huge issue that have now been aided with the emergence of LED lighting good enough for these tasks with the minimum of disturbance. These two examples, Holland Casino Sch- eveningen in The Netherlands and Aspers in the UK, emphasise the advances that have been made in LED technology in recent years. However, design is the key with both venues to bring excitement and comfort to the gambling experience.
Holland Casino is the single and exclusive owner of a casino license in The Nether- lands and welcomes between six and seven million visitors to its fourteen casinos each year. The company had noticed that not only the expectations of its clients had changed over the years but the number of visitors was also declining. Therefore, a ma- jor refurbishment and rebranding exercise took place at its venue in Scheveningen, a seaside resort in The Hague. Svend Eric Panjer of Bique Lighting worked in collaboration with branding and design company Sinot and architects Claessens Erd- mann on the lighting design over four floors. The lighting design was an integral part of the brand profiling and art direction, led by Sinot, to give the brand experience of Hol- land Casino a fresh start. Industrial, graphic and web design were also completely
changed.
As well as rebranding the casino, saving energy was very important to the new scheme. As is the norm for casinos, halogen was the light source at the Holland Casino prior to the refurbishment. The concept for the new design involved ambient lighting and accent lighting on the playing tables, entrance and washrooms. With 4m ceilings in some areas, the brief called for high out- put luminaires and a directed beam deliver- ing illumination of 300 lux for the playing tables and a different mood with 100 lux for hallways. An additional challenge was that transactions involving coloured coins needed to be clearly visible on film for security purposes.
“Quality illumination for the purpose of gambling, plus colour rendition were key, but the project also involved a lot of special
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