120 LIGHT + TECH
IINC BOUTIQUE, HANGZHOU, CHINA LIGHTING DESIGN YAANK Lighting Design
The influence of venerable and venerated light artist James Turrell runs through lighting, and occasionally culture generally, like a stick of rock (the recent Channel 4 ident is just one example). YAANK’s scheme for the IINC fashion boutique, winner of an IALD Award of Excellence, is a direct tribute.
‘[The scheme] pays homage to the famous artist James Turrell, using the space as a container for light, enhancing the experience through a visual linkage that immerses the customer in an atmosphere of purity and change,’ says Ke Yang, lead designer of YAANK, a Hangzhou-based interdisciplinary team of installation artists, lighting designers and spatial designers. The starting point of the scheme was whiteness – an intrinsically clean, minimalist space that, in the central area, becomes a canvas for colour change. In the ‘promenade’ display area around the central space the light focuses on the clothing with garments displayed like works of art. There was an element of trial and error, with five different approaches to lighting the merchandise considered before the lighting team settled on fittings hidden within the structure, says Yang. ‘It’s not only concealed but also acting as a decorative feature, a lighting design that satisfies two situations at the same time.’
The neutral 4000K colour temperature was chosen ‘to make the pure white space more pure’, a watchword of the project. ‘The overall lighting approach is based on “purity”, the luminaires being integrated with the structure of the space to maintain its integrity,’ says Yang.
Daylight was the ideal – ‘bringing in natural light is the best way of expressing the high quality of white minimalism’ – but the constraints of the project location made this impossible. Instead the lighting team created an artificial skylight. The central space accommodates special functions, such as new product launches, runway shows, or brand VIP events, hence the need for more atmospheric lighting scenes. Its complex, curvilinear geometry features an interspersed combination of lights and
horizontal slots. From within, the concealed LEDs and reflective film wash the space uniformly with subtly different and tightly controlled bands of pastel colours, inspired by the hues of sunrise and sunset, and reminiscent of the boundary-blurring effects of Turrell. ‘When light with colour enters the space, it begins to breathe slowly and the colours change to match the theme of the event,’ says Yang.
yaankdesign.com/IINC –
Architect: Fununit Design
ALL IMAGES: YE SONG, HANMO VISION
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