Lighting in Design November December 2017

explaining that, more often than not, it had to be installed at various angles to ensure seamless cor- ners. “The nature of the ceiling installations meant that none of this could be pre-manufactured in our factory and all 500 m was supplied in component form to the installation team.” The main entrance to the casino is striking, from the clockwork façade surrounding an illuminated arch to the mirrored ceiling surrounding an infinity mirror four metres in diameter. Falcon Shopfitters manufactured the arch and surrounding clockwork while Giantlight was tasked with lighting it. The arch itself measures nine metres across (from base to base) with a circumference of 14.25 m. There are three light boxes inside the arch, one on each face seen by the public and, combing the three light boxes, over 300 metres of cool white strip light. The ceiling in the main entrance is reinforced as practically every square metre of it supports a sheet of mirrored steel. Interlaced throughout the mirrored steel is 614 m of cove lighting with the infinity mirror in the centre. It is made of the same components as its smaller kin in the gaming floors – windowpane extrusion and two types of mirrored Perspex. But, while the smaller mirrors used just over 4 m of extrusion and 1.5 m 2 of mir- rored Perspex, this mirror used just over 32 m of extrusion and 25 m 2 of mirrored Perspex.

two mirrors repeating endlessly.”While the feature mirror in the casino’s entrance is round, there are 72 other fittings in the shape of triangles scattered throughout the gaming floors; these required 300 m of extrusion in double paned windows and 105 m 2 of mirrored Perspex. In total, 790 spotlights were used to illuminate the gaming floors and create islands of light around the slot banks and onto the tables.The specification for this lighting was strict and in line with all Sun International casinos, i.e., a colour rendering index of 90 and a colour temperature of 2700 K. Once the lighting installations for the gaming floors had been completed, the lighting for the walkways around the gaming floors and between the restaurants and surrounds had to be addressed, and necessitated filling hundreds of square metres of bulkhead. This space required 1582 recessed, dimmable downlighters, 425 m of blue cove light- ing, 500 m of recessed linear (which ironically was rarely in a straight line and often required on-site shop-fitting) and over two kilometres of warm white cove lighting. Edison Power Group (EPG) was tasked with installing the 2373 pendant spotlights and downlighters as well as all the back of house lighting on top of pulling the kilometres of cable that was required for the installation. Horlacher says that the recessed linear was the most challenging part of the perimeter lighting,

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