Boots - Feature Lighting

The Brief:

It is the first time that Boots have had a multi-level store and we were asked to provide two illuminated features for their new flagship store in Oxford Street London.

The Solution:

The first feature is a "Light Tile" wall consisting of illuminated colour-changing acrylic panels. This wall extends up three storeys inside the store and consists of 60 panels measuring 1200mm x 700mm. Interspersed in-between these large tiles are plasma screens. Each panel is made up of a rectangular piece of PrismexTM, lit along two edges with red, green and blue LED strips. Each one of these strips (two per panel) is individually addressed by a computer-based control programme, thus allowing an infinitely variable array of colour-changing and movement to be achieved.

The second feature is a "Goalpost" illuminated display at the entrance to the store. Originally Boots wanted an externally illuminated display but planning permission was not granted for this. We therefore had to design a display which was distinctive and easily seen from the outside. Using the same PrismexTM material as above, we manufactured and supplied an array consisting of 600mm wide sections located vertically to each end of the glass entrance façade of the building and horizontally across the top of the first floor to give the full "goalpost" effect. To illuminate these panels we used over 450 super-high output blue LEDs.

Although both these features are in a retail environment, they can be easily adapted for use in nightclubs, bars, restaurants, hotels, offices etc and even external use.

 

 

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