Hotel & Motel Management - September 15, 2008 - (Page 68)

68 Design ACCENT LIGHTING H&MM September 15, 2008 | HotelMotel.com www.HotelMotel.com/digital_edition BY EMILY HANNA, ASSOCIATE EDITOR Get in the zone VORTEX LIGHTING Quotable “ Lighting zones can change the mood of the room, like this lobby in the Avalon Hotel of Beverly Hills, Calif. No longer is the lobby a place to rush through en route to the front desk for check-in. With couches, coffee bars and wireless Internet hotspots, the lobby has now become a place to meet and greet, and lighting must adjust to accommodate these social travelers. “We are seeing furniture layouts adapt to the Wi-Fi crowd and the Starbucks generation,” said Andy Lang, president of Lang Lighting Design, noting this new concept requires creative lighting designers to look further into the comfort, glare protection and control of lighting sources. “Many of the boutique hotels that I am involved with have areas in the lobby for lounging, small bars and small restaurants,” said Anne Militello, owner and principal designer of Vortex Lighting. “These are not necessarily separate rooms, but areas in and around the lobby.” As such, the lighting design must manage the different zones, drawing guests into one particular area and dimming the space around. “Our lighting design theory is to put light where it needs to be and not to light everything the same, everywhere,” Lang said. To accomplish this feel, Lang said they use a dimming system in the For contemporary spaces, things are getting very seamless. … With traditional, you may still have chandeliers and sconces, but we may try to use LED and make it feel like an incandescent [bulb], but in reality, you’re using a more efﬁcient source that’s going to last a lot longer.” ALLAN LEIBOW, principal, Lightvision LLC lobby to raise and lower the lighting in separate areas. What each hotel chooses to light in the lobby also can direct guests’ paths, said Allan Leibow, principal at Lightvision LLC. For example, when a guest arrives at 3 a.m., his or her main prerogative is checking in and getting to the room. To aid the guest, lighting could highlight the front desk and elevator lobby areas, with surrounding areas subdued, he suggested. Five trends in lighting design Energy-efﬁcient sources Lighting speciﬁc areas rather than entire room Dimming systems Small, clean, hidden light sources Color-changing LEDs Source: Andy Lang, president, Lang Lighting Design; Anne Militello, owner and principal designer, Vortex Lighting; Allan Leibow, principal, Lightvision LLC Night and day For some hotels, the mood of the lobby is set with the interior design, and then not changed until the next renovation. But for others, the mood changes continuously, every day. Hotels, in an attempt to make the lobby space more inviting, are trying to change the lighting throughout the day through the use of timers, dimmers, natural light and colored lighting. To manage lighting, projects done by Vortex Lighting use astronomical timeclocks to monitor the time of day and change lighting levels accordingly, whether it’s to day, dusk, night, late night or cleanup settings, said Anne Militello, owner and principal designer. A similar concept uses an automatic dimming system to compensate for daylight coming into the area, said Allan Leibow, principal of Lightvision LLC. “During the daytime, the more we can bring daylight into the space, the better,” he said. “By funneling daylight into a space through a corridor and using light-reﬂecting and –refracting products, you are able to bring light into the space.” Then, at night when natural light descends, dimmers can be brought up, creating an intimate evening space. CIRCLE NO. 160 For more info Company Circle No. Ameritec Lighting . . . . . . . . . 299 Brownlee Lighting. . . . . . . . . 300 General Electric . . . . . . . . . . 301 Philips Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Prescolite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Progress Lighting . . . . . . . . . 304 Sylvania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Watt Stopper/Legrand . . . . . 306 VORTEX LIGHTING http://HotelMotel.com http://www.HotelMotel.com/digital_edition http://www.universal-textile.net

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