The main design goals for the hotel lighting were to use decorative lighting to enhance the unique appearance of this boutique hotel, to use energy-efficient lighting where appropriate, and to use night time façade lighting sparingly. Ease of maintenance was another primary concern. In addition, the lighting designers were constrained by a strict and pre-agreed budget, plus time was limited.

Customer Expectations

Decorative incandescent lighting was needed in public spaces, combined with energy-efficient cove lighting for ambient illumination. Discreet night time exterior building lighting was required in order to draw attention to the architectural features instead of just using ugly floodlighting and illuminating large areas of the façade. Furthermore, glass and faux alabaster panels with back lighting were required to customize the reception desk, boardrooms, and corridor areas. Lighting controls are standard issue in hotels and they’re widely accepted/used for the flexibility that they lend to the lighting design. Four-scene dimming control panels were requested for the public areas, such as the reception desk, atrium lobby, ballroom, boardrooms, restaurant and lounge area.

Customer Comment

Decorative lighting integrated with the lighting controls helped set the mood and ambiance of the public spaces. It was exactly we were looking for. The lighting controls provide the flexibility to adapt the lighting to the time of day. I love the fact that the ambiance of the restaurant is now different for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and for the evening. The atrium lobby lighting can be changed in response to the amount of available daylight. The lighting controls lend flexibility to the lounge areas and boardrooms, so that they can be adapted to their several potential uses. The most enjoyable part of the building is our restaurant. It’s very eclectic, and it has a lot of modern bright colors, a lot of different types of lighting, and a lot of different types of light fixtures. It is a kind of multi-purpose room: it’s an open area that not only serves as a restaurant, but a bar, and a lounge. Throughout the day the lighting controls really set the whole mood of the entire area.

Top Features

• Achitectural dimming controls are used extensively in the lobbies, ballrooms, boardrooms, and restaurant where lighting flexibility is essential to decor and function in a stylish boutique hotel.
• Decorative lighting was a priority in the design of the public spaces and in public transition and sitting areas such as the reception area and lobby, where dimming controls were used to make these spaces appear unique and inviting.
• In the main lounge and restaurant, dimming is used for mood setting.
• In the boardrooms and conference facilities, dimming provides the flexibility needed to accommodate presentation media.
• Daylight is plentiful in the split level lobby and innovative light shelves with angled slats are used to control the angle of the light that enters the low glazing and to reflect more daylight up through the higher level glazing.
• Eelectron range of hotel automation products throughout the hotel for the programming, management and configuration of cards, transponder readers/cards, Din Rail IP PoE Router KNX interface, eSuite Software and the TM11A KNX thermostat for controlling room temperature.