Cantus Arcticus

“Cantus Arcticus” is a kinetic sculpture from the artist Bruce Munro at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. It is composed of 15 fiber optics forms or curtains with intense sparkling effects. The light is animated with slow movements and color changes synchronized with the ambiance music.

Materials

AFO SSF101 light guides with 7 x 0,75mm Toray Ultra fibers and laser-processed sparkles.
AFO MDI110 illuminators with dychroic color change and DMX512 control.

Landvetter Airport

To highlight the main information desk at the Landvetter Airport in Gothenburg, the designers from Annell created the concept of an impressive chandelier suspended overhead. The six-hundred sparkle light guides, terminated in heavy hand-made glass pieces are a superb focal point visible from every place and angle of the airport’s main lounge.

Materials

Five kilometers of SSF102 sparkling sidelight guides, powered by color-changing MDI812 gas-discharge illuminators, holding 600 hand-made Murano glass drops.

Balash-Dstil

The project required to fill a volume of 3 x 3 x 1,5m with an eye-catching yet reasonably priced fixture. Lighting designer Xavier Capel chose a 6mm Advanced sparkle sidelight fibers fed by a powerful LED illuminator housed in a PMMA cube measuring 300 x 300 x 300mm. The fibers are suspended at intervals from ceiling hooks and thin transparent thread to retain their shape.

Materials

SSF103 sparkle light guide incorporating high-performance Toray fibers.
HSI102 20W 6500ºK power LED illuminator.
Custom PMMA housing.

Thenine Shopping Mall

As a feature and mall centerpiece, lighting designer Atch Kosiyabong, from Chingchai & Sons Engineering, implemented a spectacular chandelier/curtain to surround the elevator tower. Coupled to the transparent glass backdrop of the elevator structure, the centerpiece contributes to create a spectacular atmosphere.

Materials

SSF221 sparkle 1mm high performance fiber powered by MDI102, 150W gas discharge illuminators with sequential color change.

Salisbury Cathedral’s Light Shower

This breathtaking composition is another example of the magic with which Bruce Munro and his team infuse his creations. Spanning the nave, the Light Shower in the ancient Salisbury Cathedral was switched on during the Darkness into Light procession to mark the start of Advent in late November 2010. Though ethereal, Light Shower covers a massive area of 700m3.

Materials

Light Shower took 400 man hours to make and 232 man hours to install. It involves 50Km off HBF400 high performance fiber divided into 1984 strands, each one tipped by a ´Teardrop´ diffuser, and powered by 8 x 150 watt MDI101 metal halide illuminators. All photos by Mark Pickthall.

Private Residence

Lighting designer Desmond Oppenheimer specified a lightweight chandelier with special butterfly acrylic pieces. The fixture, with a 7m-drop was executed with a special sparkling fiber treated so its ends would hang straight. The chandelier can be dimmed and set in any RAL color, thanks to a special DMX 512 driven illuminator.

Materials

SSF102, 3mm sparkling sidelight guide with rigid end terminations.
Custom acrylic 30mm butterflies.
MDI504, modular discharge illuminator with 150W gas discharge ceramic lamps, DMX 512 controlled, CMY color mixing capable of millions of colors and dimming.

Matelec 2008

Advanced unveiled at the recent Matelec 2008 International Trade Fair in Madrid, a new range of chandeliers, curtains, features and backdrops incorporating sparkle fibers, Murano hand-made glass and special moldable terminations. The featured unit is a square structure with handmade crystal terminations.

Materials

SSF101 Sparkling sidelight fiber, housing 7 x 0,75mm specially scored fibers, powered with an MDI103, 150W gas discharge illuminator with lamp boasting an integrated high performance reflector and including dychroic sequential color change.
Murano hand-made terminations type CCA100.

Matelec 2008

Advanced unveiled at the recent Matelec 2008 International Trade Fair in Madrid, a new range of chandeliers, curtains, features and backdrops incorporating sparkle fibers, Murano hand-made glass and special moldable terminations. The featured unit is a spiral structure with handmade crystal terminations.

Materials

SSF101 Sparkling sidelight fiber, housing 7 x 0,75mm specially scored fibers, powered with an MDI103, 150W gas discharge illuminator with lamp boasting an integrated high performance reflector and including dychroic sequential color change.
Murano hand-made terminations type CCA200.

Private Residence

Designer Atch Kosiyabong integrated crystal rods and sparkle fiber into an 8m drop chandelier with the illuminators situated at 2m from the fixture top. The chandelier changes color through a sequence of blue, yellow and white.

Materials

MDI704, 150W metal halide illuminators with DMX512 color change control, powering sparkle fiber optics.

Lighting Showroom

A problem often cropping up in exclusive projects is the issue of custom made centerpieces to occupy spaces with eye-catching elements susceptible of blending with diverse design styles. High Performance Sparkle Sidelight Fibers, pioneered by advanced are thin polymer tubes containing a number of specially treated fibers. The visual impression is a stream of sparkles, susceptible of shimmering, static display or color change. Any size, volume and form can be created with drops up to 30m or the equivalent of a 10 storey building.

Materials

SSF101 high performance, 4,5mm sparkle side light guides with fused common ends and powered with one MDI103, 150W discharge illuminator with ceramic metal halide lamp and dychroic synchronized color change.