042 REPORT
DOM TOWER
Company: eldoLED Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
On 11 April The Netherlands’ former Queen Beatrix officially opened the Dom Tower’s new installation In Lumine Tuo - lit by eldoLED drivers - as part of the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht celebrations. The 112m high Dom Tower is part of a 90-minute walk called Trajectum Lumen through the city centre of Utrecht along architectural highlights that combines light, art and storytelling. The In Lumine Tuo installation was designed by Mark Major and Keith Bradshaw of Speirs + Major and installed by the Dutch LED lighting firm Proliad. eldoLED’s 50W POWERdrive 562 was the LED driver of choice for this prestigious project,
featuring beautiful LED dimming, perfect configurability for the project and DMX addressability. Xicato’s high-performance XSM LED modules were also used in the installation. Every 15 minutes from sunset to midnight, the Dom Tower is lit by way of an ingen- ious lighting sequence that depicts the Dom Tower as a living, breathing organism, using the eldoLED driver’s top-notch dimming capabilities in smooth intensity changes. As the carillon begins to play, playful lighting sequences travel from the bottom of the Dom Tower all the way to the top, where it plays to a finish.
www.eldoLED.com
Location: Leper, Belgium BELLEWAERDE
Company: Beglec
Originally opened as a bird and safari park in 1954, Bellewaerde grew into an attraction park with several themes creating a Mexican and Far West atmosphere. Bellewaerde’s unique location, in the middle of Flanders Fields and boarding the British War Cemeteries, attracts several 100,000 visitors a year. In 2013 a new attraction opened in the Mexican Village. The Huracan is a family coaster within a Mayan temple. Huracan is the God of wind, rain and storm, and these are exactly the elements that the visitor will face during the ride. To make the ride even more spectacular, a unique light feature was integrated. The builders called upon the company FX3, a Belgian company specialising in the conception and realisation of special events and decors. The concept was to create seven different zones with LED lighting. A large number of RGB projectors create a warm and cold mysterious atmosphere within the Mayan decor. A mix of Briteq Stage Beamer and Microbeamer are integrated in the decor in such a way that the visitor doesn’t see the fixtures. The light fixtures are placed in a difficult environment, facing water, wind, moisture and heat. There is no room for inferior projectors as they’ll have to withstand these elements for many years. “Briteq’s LDP-Powerbars are installed in the most difficult zone, as they have proven to be extremely tough and reliable in former projects,” said Timothée Van Goethem, FX3’s General Manager. “Other than those, we had to look for powerful but discrete projectors, hidden in the caves and statues. Luckily Briteq, introduced us its Microbeamer.” Another challenge was the programming and timing. The different zones are ac- tivated through sensors on the rail of the coaster. A logistics server then captures this position and activates the scene in that particular zone, everything is pre-pro- grammed and retained, so the staff only have to use one simple on/off switch to activate or deactivate the whole light installation.
www.beglec.com
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Photo by Irene van der Meijs, courtesy of eldoLED
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