Anolis lights local landmark
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In recent years, a new stone road and stone steps were built and complemented by stylish lamps and benches adjacent to the church, new trees and flowers were planted around the building when it was refurbished, and. “illuminating the Church was the next logical step“ he stated.
This was an intricate task to get just right. Locally based architectural lighting specialist ArchLights, was asked to propose an appropriate lighting scheme that highlighted its attractive architecture, and their team led by lighting designer Pavel Holzknecht and owner Michal Rehak, chose Anolis ArcLine Mini Outdoor 18 and ArcLine Mini Outdoor 36 LED luminaires together with ArcSource Outdoor 4 MC Pixels.
Anolis was selected for the compact size of the products, plus their quality and colour mixing capabilities, and the brand was also highly recommended by architectural lighting consultant Petr Kolmacka, who has helped with technical specification and final programming, as well as brought the installation to life.
The concept of lighting the Church was initiated by Pohanka and his colleague Pavel Podlipny.
ArchLights also recently lit the city castle in Decin with spectacular results. The company is actually a new division of well-established sister company Reykokeyko, a design, ideas, integration, production and engineering specialist. Michal Rehak is a savvy trend-spotter and thought the time was right to have a company dedicated to the art of architectural and ‘architainment’ lighting.
For Anolis CZ, the project was co-ordinated by Josef Valchar Jr on sales and Radim Zlebek who assisted with some of the technical elements of the installation.
The challenge was to ensure that the Church lighting was elegant and in keeping with its unique and well preserved architecture which was created by Marek Antoine Canevalle, an Italian residing in Prague in 1700.
Another was physically fitting the products to the building unobtrusively and preserving its full aesthetic and structural integrity, a tricky task needing a lot of precision and diligence.
The ArcLine Mini Outdoor strips are installed directly inside the three window cavities which are high up along the road side façade of the church, each window features segmented inner arcs.
The ArcSource Outdoor 4 MC Pixels are mounted directly on the façade of the road-facing wall, the annex and the tower on special brackets, positioned to outline the clean architectural lines and form of the building from the ground to the different height roofs.
(Jim Evans)
