DESIGN NAME: Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Culture and Arts Center
INSPIRATION: Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center is just a shelter in town from complexity and into beauty. The building highlights openness and connectivity, so that people, space and nature can have quiet dialogues. The lighting coincides with them to hide among buildings and landscapes to give off soundless beauty.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The space facade has special materials and texture change imbedded, including glasses, red facade and black facade to create balanced yet interlaced rhythm and impression. The team of GD believes it’s part of the space, without deliberately stressing shaping but catering to lighting practices to create an effect of light and shadow by means of the textures of the light reflecting materials.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: GD (GD-Lighting Design) practices simplicity all through to have all the lighting hidden among spatial levels, interfaces and constructs, creating an effect of landscape changing with every step among mountains and waters. Except for part of the floor-lamps for guiding, the overall facade lighting emphasizes artistic conception instead of depiction and outlining, echoing with the architectural style of plainness and low profile. The three huge window-style shapes facing mountain, sea and city only have their bottoms lightly decorated by light to leave appropriate space for the artistic conception.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The completion time is December 2017 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: In order to meet up with the demand of temporary exhibition in a large-size space, we specially designed remote-control lamps and lanterns for the project to make point arrangement by accurate analog computation. As for details, the seemingly even and unified technique of illuminating line grooves in fact lights up space entrances to stress the guidance of the entrances.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The floor area is about 73918 square meters.
TAGS: Lighting Design, Culture Building, Architecture Lamp, Artistic Conception, Interior Lighting
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Following humanized measure and the philosophy of being hidden in nature, Shekou Sea World Culture and Art Center is presented to the world by an overall stance of harmonized order. The team of GD, by strict yet restrained lighting techniques, endows the culture landmark building with linear echoing inside and outside to acquire the biggest visual surprise by the ultimate restraint of lighting.
CHALLENGE: A large area of white wall and glasses fills in the space to maximize the natural light and the sense of transparency, and people's sight will easily interact with surrounding landscapes at the sea and the green mountains. However, it's a great challenge for the technical level of lighting, so that lighting design must give off top neatness by ultimate simplicity and accurate light matching and controlling technologies.
ADDED DATE: 2018-01-05 04:07:21
TEAM MEMBERS (4) : Architectural/ Landscape/Interior Design: Maki and Associates, Lighting co-design: Maki and Associates, Lighting co-design: LIGHTDESIGN INC. and Lighting co-design: GD-Lighting Design
IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Photographer Shu He, Shenzhen, 2017.
Image #2: Photographer Shu He, Shenzhen, 2017.
Image #3: Photographer Shu He, Shenzhen, 2017.
Image #4: Photographer Shu He, Shenzhen, 2017.
Image #5: Photographer Zhang Chao, Shenzhen, 2017.
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