Through lighting, Eastland extends its placemaking and influence into the evening and early night, creating a unique destination for Ringwood, Victoria and the Greater Melbourne area.Ģ019 Prix Versailles – Best Shopping Mall Exterior in South Asia and the PacificĢ017 World Architecture Festival – ShortlistedĢ017 Victoria Architecture Awards – Public Building of the Year – ShortlistedĢ017 Lighting Design Awards – Retail Project of the Year – Shortlisted Fully integrated lighting highlights each of the distinct design districts with details to emphasise materials and architectural form. Each of five retail districts within the remodelled mall has been carefully designed to offer visitors a unique shopping atmosphere and experiences. A visionary proposal for the 21st century, the development creates an extensive public realm and Town Square flanked by a substantial extension to the 1960s shopping centre, a new community library, and an innovative facade redressing an expansive multi-storey car park.
STAGE LIGHTING DESIGN THROUGH THE AGES FULL
With full completion in 2016, the high-profile retail and leisure development of Eastland is the product of intense collaboration between London-based emergent designers and Melbourne executive teams. In every iteration, MultiPly shows how lighting can enhance architecture’s modularity, sustainability and identity, while demonstrating all of these qualities as urban experiences for people to enjoy.Ģ019 Structural Timber Awards – Pioneer Award While London revolved around an interior exploration, Milan was viewed predominantly as a stacked facade in elevation, and Madrid introduced an inhabitable sculpture into the city’s Esplanade de Puente del Rey civic realm – representing an unprecedented public artwork for Spain. The precise route through MultiPly remains each visitor’s own exploration. At the human scale, the lighting welcomes visitors and highlights pathways through the maze-like interior, while at the urban scale it creates an enigmatic sculpture, which then evolves in a shifting parallax of solids and voids as one encircles, enters and ascends through the structure. The resulting, dynamic compositions of glowing doorways, layering light and dark surfaces, make MultiPly’s architecture legible and enjoyable at night. Once assembled, each system is programmed on location in real-time across a single evening, using mobile devices to operate MultiPly, to align the pavilion’s brightness and animations with the local sunset hours and spatial context from key local vantage points.
A singular lighting detail is integrated into each module during pre-fabrication, with all modules then connected on site and controlled wirelessly via Bluetooth. SEAM expanded the lighting brief to include the project’s modularity, with an affordable, transportable and dynamically programmable system. Each urban situation informs a bespoke modular configuration and, in response, a unique lighting programme, with SEAM’s illumination bringing each MultiPly installation to life after dark. Designed by Waugh Thistleton Architects for the American Hardwood Export Council, the public artwork applies prefabrication and modular construction to showcase engineered-timber’s material integrity and beauty. The demountable pavilion MultiPly first debuted for London Design Festival 2018, and has so far travelled to Milan Design Week 2019 and Madrid Design Festival 2020.