WASHINGTON, D.C. – Available Light recently received a 2015 IALD Award of Merit for the National Archives Rotunda in Washington, DC. The International Lighting Design Awards were presented by the New York-based International Association of Lighting Designers on May 6.
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Available Light recently won a 2015 IALD Award of Merit for the National Archives Rotunda in Washington DC. Presented 6 May 2015 during the International Lighting Design Awards, produced by International Association of Lighting Designers in New York City, the Awards honor lighting design achievements of firms across the globe over the past year. For more information on the awards, visit the IALD site: www.iald.org/about/awards/
The Rotunda is home to the original Charter Documents including the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. These extremely delicate and cherished documents required special lighting considerations, and thus custom LED luminaires were designed with the manufacturer Prolume to fulfill specific aiming, color temperature and CRI requirements. “Our goals were to enhance the architectural environment, improve color rendering and spare the precious artifacts from harmful UV emissions. We also wanted to reduce the maintenance load, and provide dimming so that lighting could be fine-tuned over time for an ever-evolving exhibition space,” said Steven Rosen, IALD, Principal & Creative Director of Available Light. The custom-designed luminaires are energy efficient and easily replaced, reducing maintenance resources and reducing energy usage over the previous lighting system by a whopping 84%. The new all-LED lighting scheme provides several layers of light, including indirect lighting to reveal the deeply coffered rotunda dome and a series of Lumenpulse narrow beam spotlights that gently accentuate the 1934 Faulkner.
Available Light is a lighting design firm working in the fields of architecture, museum exhibition, and corporate theater. Other past award-winning architectural projects include the Sherman-Fairchild Research Laboratory at Harvard University, the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, and the National Museum of the Marine Corps. For more on Available Light go to: www.availablelight.com.
