Lighting in Design Q4 2018

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steel elements, off-shutter concrete and insulated composite wall panels with excellent energy and structural performance and the benefit of lowmain- tenance and fairly quick construction time. “In an environment like this, where almost everything is manufactured in-house, lighting was imperative,” says Riekert & Osman Studios’ Rafeeq Osman. Because of this requirement, Rawlins Wales and Partners’ lighting design specialists played an important role in the project. Externally, because the facility is located at an operating airport where no uplighters are allowed, lighting is limited to security lighting. Internally though, it is a different story. Visitors are greeted, when they enter the reception, by a 3 m diameter, 1,5 ton suspended fitting incorporating downlights in a purpose-made reclaimed Oregon pine ‘sphere’. “Elsewhere, what dictated most of the light fittings in the office areas was the ceiling design,” says Osman. “We tried to stay away from long fluo- rescent tube lights and concentrated on spot light- ing, mostly with downlighters. At the work desks, we installed motion controlled lights – for energy saving – with task lighting for computer work.” He explains that the amount of natural lighting in the offices – for instance, the technical offices have floor to ceiling windows – was driven by the client. “As the staff work under considerable pressure and stress, involving long hours, sometimes through the night and over weekends, the client wanted tomake

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LiD Q4 - 2018