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Still in Singapore, recent Aga Khan Award winners WOHA Designs were testing the lighting on their Iluma mixed use project. The project, located in the bustling Bugis Junction part of town, comprises theatres, nightclubs, restaurants and retail. It is due to open to the public in the next few months.

Working with renowned German lighting designers Tim and Jan Edler of realties:united, the external facades along Victoria Street have been covered with a series of interconnected lighting pills that can be individually programed to actively display an astounding array of visual wonders. The effect on the street was mesmerising and each night during the tests, crowds of passers by would stop to marvel at the display.

Throughout the test sessions, the realities:united team commandeered a cafe sidewalk table across the road from the project. From this vantage point they used laptops to tweak the programing of the building computer system driving the facade. The different data sequences being fed into the laptop appeared instantly, in grand scale, across the street.

With testing over for the night, we returned the table to a more profitable use (from the cafe owners perspective at least). Waiter, another round of Pils, if you will.

This entry was posted on Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 1:38 pm and is filed under Architecture, Artwork.