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Lighting flexibility was the answer for Polygon Gallery
As the largest non-profit gallery in
Canada, Polygon Gallery is a
striking new building, designed by
Patkau Architects, located on the
harbor in North Vancouver. ERCO
LED lighting tools were used both
in the exhibition rooms and in the
shop area of the gallery,
combining a high degree of
flexibility with a linear design and
efficient visual comfort.
The gallery shows Canadian
contemporary art with a focus on
photography and media art. The
architects designed the two largest
exhibition rooms on the upper
floor to be airy and spacious,
which receive natural daylight via
skylights. This ensures glare-free
lighting of the rooms during the
day without any drop shadows. To
keep the difference between
daylight and artificial light as
minimal as possible, the planners
opted for ERCO LED lighting tools
with a neutral white light color of
4000K.
ERCO luminaires are ideal for
lighting art, as they provide
uniform, glare free general lighting
on the one hand, and precise
accentuation of the exhibits on the
other. The main galleries feature
Light Board spotlights and
wallwashers, which can be flexibly
adapted and precisely aligned to
the varied exhibits the gallery will
host. The easy adjustability,
innovative lighting technology and
the linear and unobtrusive design
of Light Board convinced the
planners. With integrated control
gear in their flat housings, the
luminaires appear completely
homogeneous, blending in visually
with the overall design of the
rooms.
The architects reinforced the
contrast between the transparent
ground floor and the closed upper
floor, visible from outside, by
choosing different LED lighting
Polygon Gallery, Vancouver/Canada. Copyright: ERCO GmbH, www.erco.com. Photography: Moritz Hillebrand, Zürich/Switzerland.
tools. In the large ground floor,
they decided to illuminate
individual exhibits with Pollux
contour spotlights for their
distinct beams. This way, the works
set themselves apart from the
shop areas and draw attention to
the actual exhibition on the upper
floor.
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