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Elation lighting enhancement at shopping center in Monterrey

Fashion Drive is a shopping center in Monterrey, Mexico, whose modern design goes beyond shopping to embrace leisure, entertainment, dining, and a hotel. Opened in March 2017, the shopping mall features fashion brand stores and stretches across four levels.

A lighting scheme was sought to project multi-chromatic shades onto the building’s architecture, both indoors at a large atrium area and on the outdoor facade. Tasked with dynamically illuminating the facade and livening up the interior ceiling in a variety of shades was Elation’s Mexican partner, Adimsa, who worked with Monterrey-based Luxe Lighting on the project. The two companies worked together on the lighting specification and design for both the indoor and outdoor areas of the center while also handling installation and supervision.

Dynamic illumination of Fashion Drive’s outdoor facade was completed using IP65-rated Elation SixPar series LED PAR color changers. Installed at ground level, SixPar 100 IP, SixPar 200 IP and SixPar 300 IP fixtures (7, 12 and 18 x 12-watt LEDs respectively), provide coverage illumination along the height of each column.

The SixPar fixtures are also used to uplight a series of palm trees that line the street front. The facade’s exterior lighting scheme also uses one meter-long Elation SixBar 1000 IP color changing battens to downlight a section of the building’s facade from above. 

“With its six-color LED chip, the SixPar can produce a lot of different colors which means we can dress the building in any shade,” states Adimsa’s architectural lighting designer Gadier Pico, who was in charge of the lighting design and also supervised the installation and programmed the fixtures.

Inside the shopping center’s large atrium, the main gathering and confluence area for shoppers, SixPar 100 LED Par lights with barndoor attachments are used to light the ceiling. The luminaries project dynamic color across a series of cladded cross supports that mimic the outdoor facade design, and light the latticed ceiling above. The barndoors on the SixPar fixtures are used to accurately direct the light and avoid projecting into the eyes of the shoppers walking inside the mall. The Elation lighting installation was completed in March 2017.

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