Parshwanath Business Park transforms with SGM
Published: ASIA
INDIA: A recent fixed lighting installation in Ahmedabad has called upon moving head and spot fixtures from SGM. Designed for the owner of the Parshwanath Business Park, Rushabh Patel, the concept of the installation was to create the illusion of making the fins of the building move at night to enhance its architecture.
‘We were looking to wash the complete façade with flawless colour changing and various animations to make the building look different and fresh every time someone looks at it,’ explained Sushant Surve, lighting designer and founder of Brainwave Designs, which carried out the project. ‘Our task was to swathe the entire 2,500 sq-m façade from a distance of 8m, and as the complete building façade has fins coming out and going in, the main challenge was to create perfect angles without spilling light inside of the building.’
Mr Surve was able to achieve the desired effect by deploying just two SGM G-Spots and four Q-7 RGBW flood blind strobes. ‘We always considered using LED fixtures, as their high lumens and low power consumption helped us to achieve our intent with just six fixtures, which ultimately resulted in less wiring and less maintenance,’ he recalled.
One G-Spot and two Q-7s were installed at each two corners of the building façade, fixed on poles. As the two G-Spot fixtures were not equidistant to the façade, the installers also needed to achieve the exact focus zoom values. The system was programmed by SGM’s India dealer, Lightlabs, according to the client’s requirements using a DMX controller. Lightlabs added features including prismatic and iris effect, open-close pulse effect and rotation and shake of gobo.
‘The main reason to select the G-Spot was for its flexibility,’ offered Mr Surve. ‘It is the only IP65-rated RGBY LED moving head spot with numerous revolutionary functionalities. With this moving head I can flawlessly transmit colours with animation. Along with it, the Q-7 added more value because of its features like wireless DMX control, 28,000 lumens, wide flood and strobe, for example.
‘As a designer, the main intent was to achieve the determined concept in a modest budget without sacrificing the design. We wanted to create a rhythm while lighting the façade, and the G-Spot provided this dynamism,’ Mr Surve summarised. ‘At the same time, the building has now become a benchmark in Ahmedabad. The SGM product was the perfect solution to this challenge.’