Innovative Corridor Lighting
Evergreen Medical Center
12040 NE 128th Street
Kirkland, WA 98034

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This project conducted extensive mockups during design development at the Lighting Design Lab. These "before" photos are shown along with images of the finished project.

The decorative lighting system was designed for a long windowless tunnel connecting the newly constructed Physicians and Surgery wing to existing East Wing. Five cabinets were designed into the tunnel under the addition of Physicians and Surgery wing with cabinets 7’ high by 8’ wide by 3’deep. Access to the lighting system, is provided by a decorative perforated metal door.

Requirements were to design a kinetic lighting system with a saturated color system. The lighting system was to be designed to provide a diagonal of changing color on backdrop of an alternating color. The owner also wanted the system to be a low maintenance system with maximum flexibility.

LED’s with their superior directional properties provided modifiable and saturated color. Their cool operating temperature and long life was ideal for an enclosed cabinet. An addressable DMX system allows the owner to create one long show or multiple shorter shows with storage and playback capabilities. One data outlet was supplied along side the fifth cabinet to allow the owner to plug a laptop computer into a module, which allows changes to be made to all the addressable lighting systems in the cabinets. The program allows the owner to select from fixed colors, cross fade, color wash, random colors and variable color strobe.

The interior of the cabinet is lined with a reflective Mylar material and a translucent plastic overlay lens was applied over the perforated metal panels to soften and blend the colors. For additional flexibility a unistrut system runs vertically and horizontally inside the side and top walls of the cabinet to allow the owner to move the LED spotlights into alternate positions.

Owner: Evergreen Medical Center
Engineer: Sparling Electrical Engineering
Lighting Designer: Stephanie Conway (Sparling)
Architect: KMD

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Above: Brilliant cross diagonal of colored light on an illuminated backdrop of alternating color slowly cross fades to provide rhythmical movement on the front cabinet door.

Above:Five cabinets line the curving long windowless tunnel which connects the newly constructed Surgery and Physicians Center to the existing facility. Low heat and energy LED spots and flood luminaires housed inside the cabinets provide a vivid, kinetic design with saturated color draw people down the corridor.