ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL LIGHTING DESIGN AWARD
Award of Excellence
EVOLUTION TOWER, Moscow
Designer: Dean Skira – Skira
The challenge was to develop a visually comfortable interior lighting design while achieving an operational load under 5 watts per sq meter. As most rooms are neither rectangular nor square, and the inclination of the glass façade is different on each side of the building on each floor, discreet low-glare fittings were carefully arranged to achieve uniformity for employees in work areas. A control system is connected to a network of wireless window sensors that track how sunny or cloudy the day is, the shade from other buildings, and sun reflections from the river and other building exteriors. The system also collects data from thousands of occupancy and daylight sensors, and then uses advanced algorithms to control the DALI-dimmable luminaires and roller window blinds. The result is a visually comfortable interior delivering an operational load of just 4.8 watts per sq meter on an installed load of 12 watts per sq meter, a 60% reduction. For the exterior display, a special fitting representing one pixel of the media façade was mounted on the interior window frame flush to the glass, resulting in illumination that's only visible from the exterior and does not spill into the interior. Across the project, 3,500 RGBW LED luminaires representing pixels are used.
ABOUT THE ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING SOCIETY (IES)
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