0193 - 10 SPRING GARDENS Lighting Design - Facade Lighting

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Lighting Design - Rev G 12/03/2021

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Introduction

10 Spring Gardens is a 70’s building along the Mall within the St James Conservation Area. The site is in close proximity to Trafalgar Square, Haymarket, St James’s Park and Whitehall. Studio 29 is assigned as a lighting designer for this alteration project. Our goal is to create a lighting scheme that highlight the building’s architectural features, to improve the site’s environment and to create a safe and inviting atmosphere surrounding the building.

The adjacent East and West facades of Carlton House Terrace are brightly lit using powerful wide beam floodlights in a very warm white light.

The facade lighting to Spring Gardens and Carlton House terrace highlights the verticality of the architecture with a narrow beam, warm white LED light source located at first floor level, which replace existing floodlights. Mounted directly below the uplights are very wide beam downlights iluminating the public realm, these downlights are identical to the uplights but with different optics to give a softer ambiant feel to the piazza while maintaining a level of security around the base of the building.

The 7th floor of Spring Gardens has small uplights located within the balcony to highlight the internal pockets at the top of the building.

Carlton House Terrace only has uplighitng to the facade due to the portico entrance which also has uplighting to the inner face of the columns.

The connecting staircase and passageway between the Piazza and Carlton House Terrace has been made a strong feature with the addition of a custom illuminated handrail which mimics adjacent Duke of York Staircase. 2 the language of light 10 SPRING GARDENS

Site Context

HAYMARKET TRAFALGAR SQ

HAYMARKET

TRAFALGAR SQ

WHITEHALL

ST JAMES’S PARK WHITEHALL ST JAMES’S PARK

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Surrounding Buildings Overlooking 10 Spring Gardens

The Admiralty Trafalgar Square Pub The Trafalgar St. James London Hotel

Admiralty Arch Hotel

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Main Views

1 THE MALL VIEW 2 SPRING GARDENS VIEW 3 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE VIEW 4 TRAFALGAR SQUARE VIEW

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Existing Lighting Conditions

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Existing Lighting Conditions

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Piazza Elevation Lighting Scheme

The 7th floor of Spring Gardens has small uplights located within the balcony to highlight the internal pockets at the top of the building

The two portals on the ground floor are highlighted with narrow beam optics which identify the entrances from a distance and also highlight the steps

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Piazza Elevation Lighting Scheme: Luminaire Details

VISUAL

Two wall lights lighting up and down the facade are wrapped within a bespoke RAL painted cover to match the fabric of the building make the luminaires more discrete at daytime

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Carlton House Terrace Elevation - Lighting Scheme and Details

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Wall lights with an upward beam only, illuminate the facade which matches the Spring Gardens elevation and the adjacent building within 20 Carlton House Terrace which has already been sumbitted for planning approval by others. The architecture on all three elevations is identical which creates a balanced facade lighting scheme.

Decorative wall lights are mounted either side of the entranceway and above the steps.

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Undercroft Lighting Scheme

VISUAL

Tuneable linear LED to illuminate cove ceiling and provide general lighting to the undercroft

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Surface-mounted spotlight to illuminate planters

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Uplighting to coffers is achieved with a dynamic linear white LED, changing from growth white light during the daytime to a much warmer white at night, compllimenting the red herringbone floor.

The surface mounted downlights at the top of each column highlight the planters and climbers, also giving a glow of light to the flooring. At night the light levels are dimmed and the colour temperature changes to accent the red floor, while still Replacing existing low level wall light with new luminaire maintaining a safe level of light.

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Staircase and Passageway Lighting Scheme

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Duke of York steps without and with handrail lighting

Existing piazza staircase Replacing existing low level wall light with Lighting integrated into handrail to provide new luminaire to illuminate the steps illumination to the steps

The lighting to the staircase is vastly improved with the addition of an illuminated handrail that is mounted on both sides of the staircase and wraps around the front of the bottom columns and Replacing existing low level wall light with new luminaire to light extends at the top leading into the passageway and Carlton House the alleyway Terrace.

This is a replica of the existing handrail that’s mounted on the steps leading from the Mall to the Duke of York column.

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Lighting Scheme: Cycle Store and Green Wall Enhanced Lighting Scheme: Cycle Store and Rear Courtyard Wall

Front lighting to cycle store green wall and metal wall to create visual interest connecting the undercroft area to the rear courtyard Perforated metal screens can be turned into light art installations by backlighting creatively transforming the space into a place of interest

A Combination of linear and spotlights are mounted on short arms at the top of the green wall and perforated metal wall to illuminate the vertical surfaces. The added advantage of mounting the lights in this orientation is that any spill light will be projected onto the highway around the perimeter.

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