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Back in June of 2007, the SKY LIGHT lighting company won a bid to produce a spectacular light piece for the Place des Terreaux as part of the annual Fete des Lumieres in Lyon (December 6-9).

The concept, developed with lighting designer Jean-Yves Orcel, involved the use of a transluscent sphere measuring 4 meters in diameter. It has 360 faces mounted with 20 pure gel colors from the GAMCOLOR® range (from cyan, yellow and magenta families). Orcel was trying to simulate sunshine dancing through stained glass.

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Pictures by Guillame Atger for Sky Light

 
SKY LIGHT Project for Fête de l’Europe • Paris, France

 

IS PARIS BLUE?

The Eiffel Tower and the Arc De Triomphe, are there any monuments in any city of the world more famous and well known? What happens when you want to turn them blue for a special event? The lighting company, SKY LIGHT PARIS, chose the wide-angle Xenon spotlights to do this extravaganza job. (Apparent Kelvin temperature, 6200K). GamColor® # 835, Aztec Blue was chosen to create the European Blue effect.

Using 80 Xenon spotlights to light the 324 meters of soaring steel, GamColor® was not the first choice of color filters. However other filters would not hold up, rapidly fading in the powerful Syncrolite SX3K, SXB-5/2 and STX 4200W. Annie COLOMBATTO and Jean-Marie LERICHE of SKY LIGHT made tests with other filters including tempered glass specially designed in Germany and P.E.T. infrared film made in the U.S.A. They then turned to GAMPRODUCTS for assistance. GAMPRODUCTS provided a much superior saturated blue that was able to withstand the high intensity and extremely high U.V. content of the Xenon light sources.

In addition to lighting up the Eiffel Tower, thanks to SKY LIGHT PARIS lighting experience, the Arc de Triomphe was also bathed in blue using another 48 fixtures and GAM # 835 Aztec Blue to create that deep blue-tinged wash.

  

 

Cellcom Telecommunications • Netanya, Israel

Cellcom Telecommunications, Inc., the largest cellular telephone company in Israel, wanted to enhance the visual appearance of their corporate office complex. Israeli lighting designer, Ronit Soen of Light Line was chosen for the project.

220 fluorescent light fixtures using three T5 28-watt lamps, 48 inches long, were mounted in a distance of 98 inches from the aluminum pergola that surrounded the rim of each building. Each fixture has two red lamps and one blue lamp. The blue lamp is on all the time. The red lamps can be faded through a timing control device. The color theme for Cellcom’s logo is a distinctive pink and blue which very much identifies the company to the public. The challenge was to create Cellcom’s distinctive pink and blue as a ring of light on the roof line of each building.

It was essential to correct the standard color fluorescent tubes to the specific recognizable colors. The lights are lit every night for several hours and they wanted a minimum of two years life on the Color Filters.

Fluorescent lamps have a very high U.V. content and even though their wattage is not that great, the U.V. energy is very destructive to Color. In addition to the high U.V. of the fluores-cent lamps themselves, the fixtures are exposed to sunlight 365 days a year, also rich in ultraviolet light.

The solution to the problem was a layer of U.V. Filtering between lamp and the color, then the GamColor®, and then another layer of U.V. Filter. The first layer was designed to protect the Color from the high ultraviolet energy of the fluorescent lamp, and the outer U.V. Filter layer was used to protect it from the sunlight. This solution developed by GAM for outdoor fixtures has been dubbed the GAM Super-SuperTube, a layer of Color sandwiched between two U.V. Filters. However, in this application cut-to-size sheets were laid in the cover lens.
 

 
Ambassador Hotel • Eilat, Israel

Lighting Designer - Ran Troim RTLD Lighting Design LTD.
 
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