Hotel Aveny, Ume, Sweden

Thursday, November 29, 2007 || Martin Professional

Architect (renovation): Arkitektbyrn AB
Lighting Design: Marcus Persson, Kreativ Teknik AB

Hotel Aveny in Ume, Sweden, one of ten Profil Hotels across Sweden and Denmark, is situated in the heart of the city and offers 87 rooms, a restaurant, bar, and gym to customers from all corners of the globe.

In 2006, the hotel was completely renovated and acquired its new look from Arkitektbyrn AB of Gothenburg, Sweden. Inspiration for color choices came from a unique yet popular source, the Beatles of the 60s and Sgt. Peppers. A complementary lighting design was then created by Marcus Persson of Kreativ Teknik AB using Martin Professional fluorescent color changing Cyclo luminaires and LED lighting.

Welcome

Entry to the hotel is through an archway of glass lit by IP65 rated LEDs that bathe the portal in slow color changes throughout the evening, making for an eye-catching exterior for passersby and an impressionable entrance for customers.

Bar

Inside, the lobby bar offers drinks in another ever-changing environment visible from the street outside. Behind the bars main glass wall are Martin Cyclo fluorescent lights mounted at varying heights and programmed to slowly change hues. The Cyclo Series is a range of fluorescent linear washlights with RGB color mixing or color correction control. It provides a simple dynamic lighting solution to uniformly wash surfaces in color and variable white light.

Also in the lobby bar are large pillars of thin white fabric that have been transformed by recessed RGB LED fixtures into giant installations. With shades of color glowing from their top, the pillars resemble a sort of floating jellyfish.

Lobby

The hotel lobby features a similar glass wall with color from more Martin Cyclos corresponding to the color changes in the bar. The lobby desk is lit in white fluorescent while the hotels corridors are illuminated by hidden fluorescents with color filters. These were used to obtain the exact colors the client requested.

The lighting installation is controlled by a PC-based Martin LightJockey 2 system with LightJockey Manager. The LightJockeys internal clock monitors a host of settings used at breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as the later evening when the bar morphs into a nightclub.

Savings

Fluorescent lights and LED were chosen for their size and ability to fit in with the hotels architecture, as well as the lifespan of the light sources. In a larger installation like Hotel Aveny, both fixture costs and operational costs (i.e. electrical costs) were important. By lowering the wattage, power consumption is decreased benefiting both customer and the environment alike.

Client: Profil Hotels AB
Head Architect: Maya Iwdal, Arkitektbyrn Gbg AB
Glass constructor and installer: Gteborgs Byggnadsglas AB
Light Design: Marcus Persson, Kreativ Teknik AB
Lighting Supplier: Martin, Interlite, Ljusgruppen, Bellalite
Technical Design and Programming: Marcus Persson, Kreativ Teknik AB
Electrician: Skanska Electro i Ume
Project Manager: Benny Olsson, WSP
Carpenter: Tingstads Snickerier