MELBOURNE – There are 78 Anolis ArcSource 96s (two per stick) lighting the urban sculpture ‘Red Sticks’ – which glow, shimmer and are clearly visible for the enjoyment of all crossing the Melbourne Gateway. Each fixture is individually and independently controlled, with automatic triggers for seasonal changes and special occasions. The lights are on for 10 hours each night, year-round.
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MELBOURNE – A landmark new Anolis lighting design has been installed to illuminate Melbourne’s ‘Red Sticks’ urban sculpture on CityLink. It is 80 percent more energy efficient and also ensures that the installation looks fantastic and crystal clear to all using the city’s Tullamarine & Flemington Road Interchange.
A 70 meter yellow steel beam cantilevered at precarious angles traverses eight lanes of freeway and 39 elegant 30-meter high steel and concrete red sticks run north and south either side of the road over 420 meters, depicting the city’s panache and freedom for design, style and ideas.
The north section contains 21 sticks which are 7 meters apart from one another stretching over a 142 meter distance, while the south is a section of 18 sticks also 7 meters apart, spread over a 120 meter area and sitting in an artificial lake.
Transfield Services – the primary maintenance contractor for CityLink – approached Anolis’ Australian partner, The ULA Group, with a brief to create a lighting design that improved the color, light qualities and ambience of the original installation.
CityLink stipulated that the lighting must have a contemporary edge, be a vastly more eco-friendly package and reduce ongoing running costs to meet its sustainability principles.
Prior to discussions with Transfield Services, Jason Saunders worked on calculations to assess the most appropriate product that would deliver the right results along with the best energy savings. Through the choice of product Jason Saunders was able to deliver an 80% savings on energy.
Jason Saunders project managed for ULA, collaborating with Transfield Services.
ULA specified the Anolis ArcSource 96 LED fixtures, chosen for their “impressive light output, ruggedness and ability to customize the product lensing and also the casing for vandal-resistance,” explains Saunders.
The ArcSource 96 has a maximum power consumption of 100 W, compared to the previous incandescent sources, which were a hefty 1000 W each.
The ArcSource 96s were fitted with protective back-plates, Anaconda cable casing and a special lens array to ensure that the light reaches exactly the right places.
When it came to the physical installation, the Transfield Services electricians simply removed the old lighting fixtures from their posts and replaced them with the ArcSource 96s, again saving time and costs to the client by using the existing infrastructure.
The Anolis units were additionally customized at the factory and fitted with wireless receiver cards and special antenna, providing a solution for data control, saving time and the trouble of running more cables.
A total of 78 Anolis ArcSource 96s (two per stick) are used to light the Red Sticks – which glow, shimmer and are clearly visible for the enjoyment of all crossing the Melbourne Gateway. Each fixture is individually and independently controlled.
The control signal from the main transmission hub is sent directly to the northern fixtures. At the furthest – 154 meter – point, a repeater unit beams it to the Southern ArcSource 96s, and that repeated signal then runs from 148 meters to the most distant unit at 268 meters away.
The lights are controlled by an E:Cue Butler XT system with automatic triggers for seasonal changes and special occasions. The lights are on for 10 hours each night, year-round.
The Red Sticks’ lighting has a seasonal signature look which benefits from the ArcSource’s additive color mixing. They turn red in the summer, blue in the winter, cyan in the spring and yellow for the autumn. The exact hues were all fine-tuned by the ULA team to ensure that they work best visually when combined with the art.
