Adding Color to the Curve
The balance between working at the office and at home has changed and created a new challenge for companies to redefine their work space. Businesses realize that their employees can work anywhere there is Wi-Fi, but everyone knows that you come up with the best ideas when you put your people together. Thus, companies need to offer space and freedom to give substance to the workplace. This new balance calls for an adapted, more spatial, and safer working environment, one that is in line with the 'new' way of working.
Answering this challenge, the BOW office building located on Terminalweg in Amersfoort, Netherlands offers the necessary space to furnish workspaces and meeting rooms more spaciously, plus more than enough space for a responsible routing in a safe environment. For instance, the facility was designed to enable businesses to have their own entrance for employees and customers. And, instead of sharing a restaurant with other companies, businesses can simply set up their own catering/coffee stations in the facility.
The facility consists of three parts. BOW A is located at the head of the facility, transverse to BOW B, which is perpendicular to BOW C. Staying true to its name, BOW B has curved elements can also be seen in the interior, as well as the exterior. For example, throughout its four floors the staircase starts and ends with a curve. The separation at the lounge has beautiful arches with a round seating area to name just a few examples. Even the lamps and planters are round.
Creating a Landmark
To take advantage of the curve of the building, especially at night, to bring more businesses into the facility, Simon Smink contacted John Hilhorst from Mossink and Ralph Reggoort from Output BV, consulted with Pascal Van Sloun from Acclaim Lighting.
Van Sloun said, “The customer wanted their building to become a colored landmark that passing cars could not miss. In order to achieve this goal, we needed to specify a high-output, high-efficient luminaire that could easily be controlled by WIFI for color changing and custom designs. The new lighting system also had to fit onto the existing outer wall brackets.”
After further investigation, Dyna Drum EO Color was specified. The high output, high-efficient outdoor rated color mixing floodlight with an internal 100-277VAC power supply has onboard DMX+RDM driver and Aria wireless DMX technology for maximum lighting control.
Dyna Drum EO Color features Acclaim Lighting’s Spectrum Technology (QS version), which offers superior color mixing, saturation, and an extended color palette. The color fixture comes with a standard narrow 10° beam with optional 20°, 40°, 60° and 10°x60° quick-change lenses for wider applications. Its quad chip LED units achieve more total lumens then its single-color chip counterpart.
To ensure energy efficiency, the luminaire consumes less than a maximum of 65 watts and maintain 70 percent of their lumens for 150,000 hours. The fixture will perform in temperatures between -40°F to 125°F (-40°C to 51°C). Plus, the IP66-rated fixture has a die cast aluminum housing with polycarbonate lens, with an optional marine coating, making it suitable for even the harshest outdoor environments.
The new lighting system installation was completed in July 2022 with excellent results. Van Sloun said, “The facility manager quickly received very positive responses and compliments about the exterior lighting. Now, they are thinking about extending the lights around the rest of the facility.”
Project Participants
Simon Smink – Management of the Smink group
Patrick Prins – Facility manager of the Smink group
John Hilhorst – Technical from the Mossink group
Ralph Reggoort—Sales from Output BC
Lighting Manufacturer – Acclaim Lighting
Lighting Programming - Tibbe Warnier
Electrical Contactor - Mossink Elektrotechniek
Lighting Supplier - Output BV
