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Waterbury Awards
2003 IIDA Awards from the
Puget Sound Section of the IESNA
Royal Mirage Arabian
Court
Dubai, U.A.E.
Lighting Designer(s)
Ross DeAlessi
Richard Spry
Ross DeAlessi Lighting Design
Project Owner
Withheld at owner's request
Photography
Douglas Salin
www.dougsalin.com
From the IIDA
Award Submission Form:
(Fig 1)
The Royal Mirage is a five star resort situated on the Arabian Gulf. A
twelve-hour time zone change and profound cultural differences made for
quite a challenging project.
(Fig 2)
As most guests arrive in predawn hours after lengthy flights, cooler exteriors
envelop warm, inviting entries. HIR asymmetric wall washers gently bathe
the porte cochiere's surrounding walls as background to grand arches.
Q250PAR miniature bullets provide sculpting uplight to certain palms.
Q75 - 100PAR30 in-grade facade lighting is applied to arches, entries
and features only, leaving guestrooms with unobstructed ocean and garden
views.
(Fig 3)
The beach-side facade is lighted for compatibility with the interior lighting.
Walls are uplighted for textural revelation with MR16 burials and concealed
color corrected state-of-the-art T5 fluorescent asymmetric wall washers
for upper walls. This reduced facade and interior contrast, leaving the
interior brighter for transparency. Quartz asymmetric wall washers uplight
domes, effectively finishing the facade.
(Fig 4)
Combinations of T8 fluorescent and warm low voltage strip lighting uplights
the pool beach bar's center wind tower for intimate and distant vistas.
Low voltage strip lighting is dedicated to the internal lattice screen
for contrast in interest.
(Fig 5)
The reflecting pool is viewed from the entry and surrounding public spaces.
The same T5 architecturally inconspicuous technique as the beach-side
facade is employed here, with few submersibles, so as to maintain the
unblemished reflection. Designers from four continents, and conquering
an unsavory product distribution system created a successful project and
specification integrity.
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