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The Changing Dynamics of Lighting
Lighting plays a pivotal
role in creating the ambience in any space whether it is a lobby,
a restaurant, a bar, a corridors or a hotel room. It also plays
an important role in enhancing the architectural form of a building.
In earlier times, the variety of lighting available was limited
and therefore light was restricted to being yellow or white
and spaces could only as a result be rendered dimly lit or brightly
lit.
However today the variety of lighting available is extensive.
Fiber optics, LED, and a wide variety of incandescent and florescent
lighting coupled with dimming options and intelligent building
management systems allow for a wide variety of lighting solutions.
The intensity of lighting can be varied at the flick of a remote
switch and colours can be computer controlled and set a timer
to gradually blend into each other or change radically creating
a variety of looks and feels to the space.
The space planning and layout, furniture styles and rendition
of space by form, colour, textures and materials create an interior
space setting a mood or ambience that is static. Lighting is
the singular element that can create dynamic space since it
allows variation. Lighting can completely transform the ambience
of the same space to depict or create the setting for a variety
of moods.
Used as an exterior element light can be used to highlight a
complete building or only a few elements of the building completely
transforming the way the building is perceived at night. In
the Mosaic Hotel in Delhi we worked with Light Box, an international
lighting consultant to create a variety of moods.
The fluid bar at the Mosaic Hotel is completely white rendered
space with concealed LED fittings that change the hues of the
entire bar from pink to orange to yellow green and blue shades
at twenty minute intervals allowing the space to become dynamic.
Effectively placed lights on the exterior light up the composition
of the building facade that is a mosaic of white, clear and
purple glass. The lobby in Mosaic hotel has a focal wall with
glass cylinders each fitted with a LED light that is like an
art installation changing colours constantly.
Each room is designed with a rarity of lights that allow the
guests to select the mood they would like to create in the room
from subdued to being brightly lit. In Cinemax, a six screen
multiplex in Mumbai, we used colour change LEDs behind large
glass screens to create a variety of moods in the lounge area.
Currently under completion in Kolkata, The Verve Hotel that
we have designed will be like a dynamic lantern glowing at night.
The entire building is punctuated by circular windows each of
which is lit by an LED light, with colour change. Thus the entire
building would glow in different colours at different times
of the night.
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