Lightmoves at the Melbourne Museum
ALIA members and guests along with the Melbourne Chapter of the IES were privileged to an exclusive technical tour of the Melbourne Museum’s lighting systems, hosted by the Museum’s Manager of Operations, Craig Gamble. Lightmoves Pty Ltd sponsored refreshments for the evening, with over 75 guests joining the tour.
Guests heard from all of the key stakeholders of the Museum’s lighting system, creating an informative and possibly unprecedented expose of the competing pressures that are at work in a project of this complexity and magnitude. Speakers included;
Roger Demarte of Denton Corker Marshall
Steve Brown of Vision Design Studios
Andrew Livingston of Bluebottle
Andrew Sherar of Lightmoves
Keith Tucker of Megafun, and
Craig Gamble of the Melbourne Museum
Consequently, guests learned about the design intentions behind the spaces and infrastructure and the compromises that designers, architects, installers and operators have made in order to realise their objectives. An added layer of complexity that was influencing every aspect of the design is the conservation demands of the exhibits themselves, with stringent limitations on light levels.
Lightmoves is on firm ground when dealing with these complex and often conflicting pressures upon architectural lighting designs. The Melbourne Museum is an excellent example of the wide ranging expertise of Lightmoves, including;
The event was extremely informative and over the two hour tour, presenters were talking, pointing and answering questions non-stop. And as the event came to an end, guests were treated to a new installation by Lightmoves on the Royal Exhibition Building.
Vision Design Studios created the Tapestry of Light concept, which has been realised using a range of permanently installed automated lights – Studio Due’s colour changing CityColor flood lights together with four Clay Paky Goldenscan HPEs and a Clay Paky Stage Zoom 1200, enclosed in custom weatherproof housings by Brown’s Precision Welding. Currently programmed for the Mars exhibition, the Royal Exhibition Building was bathed in a deep blue/purple light with a giant glass gobo projection of an astronaut floating gently across the structure.
The Melbourne Museum is an outstanding demonstration of how lighting and technology can be combined in an architectural setting to achieve a broad range of objectives - function, communication and decoration to name just a few. Lightmoves takes great pride in being able to meet these diverse requirements to the highest standard in the industry, treating collaboration with the client and other stakeholders as the cornerstone to long term success of the installation.
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