Urban Lighting
First and foremost, urban lighting has to be functional and visually appealing while it defines the character of city squares and pedestrian zones, residential areas, parks and other urban areas. Moreover, the feeling of safety adequately illuminated urban areas provide to citizens is an extremely important factor in crime risk reduction.
Lighting that provides style by day, safety by night, yet keeps the human scale. The contributions that Thorn’s functional and decorative urban lighting give to the exterior environment are obvious throughout numerous projects such as the one done in Brussels.
Pont Brabandu, Brussels, Belgium
Thorn’s outdoor color-changing LED luminaires have been chosen to light Saint-Josse commune’s previously neglected pedestrian and road underpass, Pont Brabant, in Brussels, Belgium. 118 recessed RGB Plane luminaires are used in the scheme.
The 800x500mm LED modules are DMX controlled to create dramatic grids of colored light.
Another 55 QBA floodlights (150W) were used, beamed across the ceiling to provide background illumination; and – for support column lighting – 83 Mica B buried floodlights (70W). Both have diachronic LEE filters to provide the different effects. Each side of the underpass is marked by eight RGB Band and E/Fact (20W HIT) luminaires, plus a couple of Promenade bollards (reference image in the upper right corner).
Thorn's assortment of urban lighting:
