Silver Lighting · 2021
Nantong Window Cultural Center
by Tongji Architectural Design Co., Ltd
- Silver A' Design Award 2021 in Lighting
- CLIENT: Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd.
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About Nantong Window Cultural Center
Nantong Window is an architectural lighting design for a cultural complex with a library, a cultural centre and archives. The lighting follows the building concept of birds and sea. Linear luminaires are placed inside the folded perforated aluminium curtain wall, so the light passes through the feather-like openings. Underground lamps with a colour temperature of 3000K illuminate the orange inner wall and ceiling. Luminaire positions and angles are calculated so that no lamp surface is visible from inside or outside. A DMX512 control system allows dynamic change of the facade.
About the Silver A' Design Award
Nantong Window Cultural Center is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Nantong Window Cultural Center is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Nantong Window Cultural Center is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- The installation position and angle of the luminaire have been carefully calculated to ensure that the surface of the lamp cannot be directly seen both indoors and outdoors, to achieve good visual comfort. The DMX512 control system is adopted to realize the overall dynamic change of the building facade. It can not only meet the daily needs of energy-saving, but also meet the needs of project operations in combination with significant holidays.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The project covers a total of 30200 square meters.
- Tags
- Lighting Design, Architectural Lighting, Functional, Visual Effects, Energy Control, Atmosphere
- Production Technology
- Underground lamps with CRI90 and 3000K illumination color temperature is embedded in the underside of the building to illuminate the orange inner wall and ceiling, which strengthens the "bird" intention of the building.
- Design Challenge
- The installation and maintenance of lamps became the biggest challenge of the project.
- Research
- After several discussions with the curtain wall consultant, the mockup experiment was introduced in the design stage.
- Inspiration
- The project is located on the north side of the landscape park, which including a library, cultural center, and archives. The building used "Birds and Sea" as the design prototype, using a special folding panel curtain wall and a three-dimensional folding "feather" shaped perforated aluminum curtain wall system.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2019 in Torino and finished in August 2020 in Rimini.
- Operation Flow
- Through many experiments to determine the installation of lamps and curtain wall synchronization, and an openable design is reserved on the top of the aluminum curtain wall for easy maintenance.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Ma Yuan, 2020.
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Ma Yuan, Nantong Window, 2020.
Image #2: Photographer Ma Yuan, Nantong Window, 2020.
Image #3: Photographer Ma Yuan, Nantong Window, 2020.
Image #4: Photographer Ma Yuan, Nantong Window, 2020.
Image #5: Photographer Ma Yuan, Nantong Window, 2020.