32|REPORTAJE T he overall front of house area is approx. 700sqm. There are a number of distinct spaces within the project: Ground floor art gallery space and merchandise display, first floor merchandise display including high end fine jewellery, VIP Salon, and fitting rooms. The central atrium space connects both floors. All finishes are extremely high quality and the colour palate and materials are contemporary luxury. The brief was to design a lighting solution which provided a luxurious layered lighting appearance to accentuate finishes, architectural interiors and features, and displays. Merchandise was to stand out from the ambient effect with highly controlled accent lighting. This was all to be achieved with as up-to-date lighting technology as possible. The client was looking for innovation in all aspects of the design. Due to the nature of the project all lighting had to be very flexible, controllable, and high colour rendering. The important points to note for the lighting design are: All front of house lighting except the jewellery cases and decorative fittings are LED based and dimmable. This provides significant energy saving qualities to the scheme. All ceiling luminaries for art and merchandise display are remote controlled from RCL (Remote Controlled Lighting), either track mounted or ceiling recessed. This gives the operating team ease of adjustment for the changing displays and installations. The ground floor art display luminaires are controlled from the RCL ‘iDirect’ system via iPad. This applies to pan/tilt direction and light level to suit the art. Some memorised scenes are also set. All other general, architectural, and retail display lighting is controlled through a Lutron scene set system with directional adjustment from ‘iDirect’. A number of scenes are programmed as required. General architectural lighting includes perimeter integrated cove-lighting to wash feature wall panels and curtains, and concealed uplighting to the feature dome ceiling in the atrium. For the jewellery display custom designed podiums and wall vitrines were developed. The glass podiums contain a very slim profile at the top, housing horizontal fibre-optic end fittings with 90 degree mirrors to focus light down. For the wall vitrines again, top lighting and low level uplighting is provided by fibre-optics with concealed linear LED to wash the back panel. Fibre optic light sources are 250 watts metal halide with white colour tuning and dimmer wheels. Typical illuminance values at the base surface are 8500 lux horizontal and 3500 lux vertical. Over the jewellery consultation desk is a separately controlled cool white spotlight to view silver and diamonds etc. Normally the general lighting is warm white. The VIP fitting rooms have various lighting elements. The mirrors have integrated full height lighting. There are pinhole spotlights above the mirror to pick out fabric textures and jewellery. A white colour tuning