Infrastructure
Selected lighting design projects
Guangzhou
Canton Tower
Client: Guangzhou Xinxin TV & Sightseeing Tower Co Ltd
Architect: Information Based Architecture, Guangzhou Design Institute
Project status: Completed in 2010
Arup has designed a lighting concept which surprises and amazes. After sunset the tower appears as a luminous icon on Guangzhou’s skyline.
The Canton Tower is designed to be smooth, curved and graceful – in impressive fest of technical expertise and architectural elegance. Inspired by the parametric technique used to create the structural design, LED fixtures are integrated into the triangular lattice steel structure and illuminate it from within, transforming the tower into a dynamic luminous beacon on the city skyline after sunset.
Every fixture in the lighting design is individually controllable to allow animations and colour changes across the entire height of the tower.
Hong kong
Stonecutters Bridge
Client: Highways Department, Hong Kong Government
Project status: Completed in 2009
As the sun sets, the narrative lighting scenes add a sense of magic and invite the viewer to return to encounter a different, yet fascinating, experience of a bridge.
The design approach to the architectural lighting reflects the unique characteristics of Hong Kong, regarded as dynamic and cosmopolitan, a place which offers a diversity of experiences, blending Chinese heritage and British colonial influence.
The simple yet elegant lines of the Stonecutters Bridge are picked out with crisp cool white light to reinforce their beauty and the simplicity of the bridge structure against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s vibrant skyline. The cross fading of colour lighting in the light strips and tower beacons, controlled by Digital Multiplex technology, is programmed to express the characteristics of the city with special light show on festive occasions.
Singapore
Helix Bridge
Client: Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA)
Architect: Cox, Architects 61, Davis Langdon & Seah, Sato Kogyo, TTJ
Project status: Completed in 2010
A world’s first in architecture and engineering, Arup designed this incredibly intricate and lightweight bridge that is now a key landmark in Marina Bay.
The Arup+Cox+A61 design team emerged winners from a field of 36 bids based on its concept to create an inspirational pedestrian bridge for visitors to Marina Bay.Developed entirely in a digital environment, the design of the helical formation was made possible using Arup’s 3D software that enabled each steel member to be optimised for strength with only a few different section sizes used. To create a visual spectacle, Arup’s lighting designers incorporated LED lights that accentuate the sweeping structural curves while illuminating the internal canopy.
The Helix demonstrates a new and exciting solution to one of the oldest challenges in the world – how to make a structure span between two supports. To create a visual spectacle, Arup’s lighting designers incorporated LED lights that accentuate the sweeping structural curves while illuminating the internal canopy.
Tianjin
Tianjin Yujiapu Station
Client: The Third Railway Survey & Design Institute Group Corporation
Project status: Completed in 2015
Arup provided Total Design services for theiconic roof, the world’s largest asymmetric spiral beam grid structure system and one of the largest single-layer roofs in China.
The station is located in the centre of Yujiapu Financial Centre, Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and is a key component to Binhai CBD. The multi-platform station consists of a terminus for the Beijing-Tianjin-NBDA high-speed rail line and interchange for three underground metro lines, shortening the travelling time to Beijing from three hours to within an hour.
One of the most technically challenging areas of this project is its iconic roof which is 148m long x 83m wide x 25m tall. Arup used its experience of long span roof design to enable the groundbreaking architectural concept to be realised. Not only the difficulty of design in integration of multidisciplinary design, but also the construction method, stability of structure and interface sequence needs to be considered during implementation stage.
