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Venue: Delphin Botanik Exclusive Resort
Location: Antalya, Turkey
Manufacturers: Hera LED, Turkey / MADRIX, Germany
Distributors: Hera LED, Turkey
Installers: Hera LED, Turkey
Architects: KRT Architect, Turkey
Lighting / Visual Designers: Hera LED, Turkey

 

The goal for the lighting concept of the Delphin Botanik Exclusive Resort simply was to integrate a comprehensive RGB LED lighting design for the entire building that made the hotel stand out from its competitors in the area and would be an entertaining and fun eye-catcher for guests and potential visitors.

In the project, all balconies of the hotel are illuminated with our Ledstrip 30 RGB, functioning as 1 pixel. A total of 4260 meters was installed. The strips are used as RGB color fixture in combination with 655x of our X-CV3 constant-voltage LED drivers and each balcony is individually addressed using pixel mapping.

 

Dynamic and colorful effects are also created with help of our PD60 RGB Pixel Dots on the roof and for the central domes. 12x Power Pack 320 are used for their supply of power. They are especially useful in projects with large cable lengths since they integrate a fully-isolated DMX splitter. The fact that all products are using the RDM protocol, ensured a successful commissioning process and group-wide remote addressing after the entire assembly process had been finished.

 

1x MADRIX KEY professional control system communicates with 8x MADRIX LUNA 4 nodes that are distributed over large distances throughout the entire hotel via Ethernet and Art-Net. The lighting system had to be controlled from a single room and thus had to branch out to the different sections.

A variety of lighting scenes has been written on a day-by-day and hour-by-hour basis in order to meet the client's requirements for the exterior lighting. In addition, lighting scenarios are accompanied by various scenes that run in sync with the music when required.

 

Probably the biggest challenge was that the site of the hotel was very big. Coordination between the departments and communication between our experienced team came in handy with the help of radio sets. The project was completed in 3 months with an assembly team of 8 members working intensively.

 

Venue: Christmas Ball 2020 At Poklonnaya Hill
Location: Moscow, Russia
Manufacturers: Zodiak, Russia / MADRIX, Germany
Distributors: Zodiak, Russia
Installers: Zodiak, Russia
Architects: Zodiak, Russia
Lighting / Visual Designers: Zodiak, Russia

 

The Christmas ball is not only one of the traditional symbols of Christmas but also of the New Year. And our large lighting installations in the shape of such a ball have become a symbol of New Year's Eve in Moscow.

The latest project was deliberately chosen to be 20 meters high to welcome the year 2020. Besides RGB lights, we have also used RGBWW fixtures. In addition, the ball is decorated with 86 ornamental LED snowflakes. MADRIX 5 KEY maximum is being used for the lighting control.

The scope of the project is striking in its scale: 390,000 LED pixels, 16 km of LED strips, garlands, ropes and contouring lights, complex metal structures with a height of 6 floors, 34.5 tons of beauty, 150 kW of pure energy.

All this came together in one exciting installation. It is more than the current official Guinness record with 55,900 LED lights. In each detail, we have put our hearts.

The main technical feature of the object is the use of light elements installed on a complex metal frame. The frame consists of the base, metal trusses, and horizontal truss ties.

In addition to the common color channels of red, green, and blue, we have added two more channels with different modes of white. This technology is used for the first time in Russia for outdoor installations of a similar scale. It allowed us to achieve a more accurate and deeper color reproduction: The ball can shimmer with the cold, mysterious radiance of stars. And it can flicker with a warm and cozy lighting scheme. You can also see the dance of red lights that look like fire.

The visual range becomes as saturated as possible and provides great opportunities for the implementation of multimedia ideas.

In total, we created 20 basic scenarios of lighting. Bright red lights, amazing warm whites, or noble purple — we were able to achieve all shades of festive lights in one installation.

One of the most difficult things was the very tight schedule. We had only 3 days for the programming. By then, the installation had to be ready for the Moscow Christmas festival. Only great love for this project helped us to finish it in time. We were literally working 24 hours a day with no sleep. Our aim was to create completely new scenarios of lighting, with seamless soft and smooth gradients, and by using warm-white LEDs. Also, all LED modules had no auto-addressing and were all set manually by us. Another challenge was to avoid visual interruptions in the effects and visuals due to borders and joints. We overcame those difficulties by mounting all LEDs extremely accurately and configuring settings carefully.

The design combines modern conciseness and traditional, decorative motifs. Lacy patterns on the surface reference the craftsmanship of past centuries. The amazing balance between traditions and modern technologies makes this installation truly unique. Our Christmas Ball creates a festive atmosphere and became the main source of the holiday spirit and joy for all visitors of Poklonnaya Hill. Although the installation is situated in the outer areas of Moscow, it became popular among people and took its place in the "Audience Sympathy" Top-3 New Year's Moscow decorations.

 

Venue: Paris By Light
Location: Paris, France
Manufacturers: DiGidot, The Netherlands / InventDesign, The Netherlands / MADRIX, Germany
Distributors: CANAL LED, France
Installers: CANAL LED, France
Lighting / Visual Designers: Fabrice Azoulay, CANAL LED, France

 

Shortlisted 2019

Paris By Light was voted one of the top 4 integrated-resort projects of the MONDO-DR Awards 2019.

 

In the thirteenth arrondissement of Paris, the capital of France, the facades of the "Maison Internationale de Séjour" were transformed into a luminous tableau intended to become works of art to embellish the city, reinventing the concept of "The City Of Lights".

When walls are transformed into giant screens, when buildings become a new medium, when the light becomes an architectural element in its own right, then an unprecedented artistic creation becomes reality.

 

A technological feat has made all of this possible. All in all, no less than 25,664 LEDs illuminate the facade of the MIS, which requires a total of 76,992 DMX parameters. Especially the large illuminated area of 1,025 square meters makes this lighting installation a unique project. A three-building front acts as a single screen that is about 58 meters long and 18 meters high.

From the moment they were designed, the three buildings have been equipped with a second shell made out of glass. The framework uses translucent walls in order to benefit from the transparency, and to bring out the soul of the construction.

 

The exterior consists of 284 glass panes, which are all surrounded by LEDs. Due to the architectural characteristics, the fixtures had do be custom made in order to equip the windows with either 82, 88, or 94 RGB pixels. The way the LEDs are placed provides a visual display that is worthy of a screen. The positioning of the LEDs, related to the artistic design of lighting designer Fabrice Azoulay, makes effects possible that have never been seen on building facades. The visual expression includes a multifaceted mix of effects, graphics, and videos. But the sophistication takes on another dimension by controlling all of these LEDs with a pixel mapping server. Controlled collectively or separately, they can serve all possible imaginations, may it be in terms of effects, lighting intensity, or choice of colors. That is why the possibilities for creating visuals are limitless.

 

Depending on the news, the weather, or the imagination of the designer, the facades of the three buildings will change. They can repeat the same message, or variants, show specific information each, or they can simply reproduce pre-programmed images, visuals, and effects.

All this is made possible by the products used: 75 DiGidot C4 drive 1704 customized DiGidot T-Series PixelsStrips, all controlled by 1 MADRIX 5 KEY ultimate pixel mapping software.

 

Located next to a busy 6-lane highway, there was a single yet paramount challenge to overcome: to not blind all the drivers. The solution to this problem was strictly placing the LEDs in such a way that they are only illuminating the glass.

Paris By Light is an innovative project, urban and futuristic, with a limited ecological impact. It is the largest installation of its kind in France. And it features a contemporary and at the same time unprecedented artistic design for effects on lines of LEDs.

 

Design Team Credits

Architect: Softroom
Local Architect: Avci Architects
Lighting Designer: Cinimod Studio
Structural Engineer: Sezer Proje
Mechanical Engineer: Arke Muhendislik
Electrical Engineer: Erke Tasarim
Acoustics Consultant: Sandy Brown
Local Designer: FD Architecture
Flow Wall Lighting: LEDFlex
Lighting Control: MADRIX
Photographers: Büşra Yeltekin / Ikoor Ahmet Oktay

Istanbul Airport

 

A global hub between continents, Instanbul Airport is simply grand in scale, and grand in design. Its website greets you with a captivating 'Magical Journeys Start Here'. Passengers of the lounges of Turkish Airlines are greeted with modern aesthetics, warm colors, and simply stunning lighting design.

 

Istanbul Airport

 

Architects Softroom explains that 'the Flow Wall is immediately identifiable from the entrance, highlighting the prime location of the Turkish Airlines' lounges as a centrepiece of the terminal.' 'The surface is divided by seven flowing lines, representing how Turkish Airlines connect the continents of the world. Light is also used to increase intuitive wayfinding. Flow lines in the wall itself are animated by over five-and-a-half kilometres of programmable LED lighting that can pulse or glow when needed, and overhead strips of lighting at the lower levels follow the contours of particular routes, reflecting off the highly polished floor.'

LEDFlex provided more than 10 km of linear LEDs, using the MADRIX 5 Software to programm 'the light into contemporary, colour changing wave-like movements.' By using around 650 DMX universes alone for the largest area, MADRIX 5 maximum and MADRIX 5 professional were specified for this project.

 

Istanbul Airport

 

 

Istanbul Airport
Istanbul Airport
Istanbul Airport

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