The Heart of Siberia Urban Lighting Show by Pitch Creative Engineering Bureau is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design Competition Category.
BronzeLighting· 2020
The Heart of Siberia Urban Lighting Show
by Pitch Creative Engineering Bureau
Client: Krasnoyarsk Territory Government Administration of the city of Krasnoyarsk supported by the Siberian Coal Energy Company
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Lighting Category
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About The Heart of Siberia Urban Lighting Show
The Heart of Siberia is a permanent light and sound show in the center of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. The show links a 540 meter pedestrian bridge, a museum center and a concert hall into one dynamic lighting system. The system uses more than 15,000 controlled pixels, 2,000 linear lamps and two LED media facades, managed by custom automation cabinets. Scenarios start automatically on a schedule and can also be changed remotely. Nine chapters use color to recall the Yenisei river, the taiga and other regional symbols. The installation withstands temperatures down to minus 40 degrees Celsius.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Heart of Siberia Urban Lighting Show is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. The Heart of Siberia Urban Lighting Show is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. The Heart of Siberia Urban Lighting Show splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Our aim was to revitalize the city's center by creating a permanent light/audiovisual installation with various scenarios played on the schedule. In order to do so we have decided to visualize genius loci of the Siberian city Krasnoyarsk and to present some of its sights, landmarks, and other peculiarities, such as the river Yenisei, taiga, mountains, hydroelectric power plant, etc.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
All sights, landmarks and other peculiarities mentioned above have definite familiar images. However, it was impossible to display clear images on the architectural objects (except media facades) because of the physical limitations of the working surfaces and different points of view. So, our main idea was to express those definite familiar images through dynamic abstractions. In a sense, such approach, that is also called 'emotional design', develops the ideas of Wassily Kandinsky and El Lissitzky.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
It was not the first time we have been engaged in the transformation of the urban environment in Krasnoyarsk, so it is important for us to maintain the relationship with the city. We also hope that such an example will set a trend for other cities, so they will turn to their inhabitants and their needs, making cities more comfortable places for living.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- This urban environment project transformed the center of Krasnoyarsk from unfavorable and criminogenic into a place for walking and recreation. It also became the first stationary light&sound show in Russia. The technical goal was to program a dynamic illumination system at the 540m long pedestrian bridge, museum center and concert hall working together as one. The show is supported by original sound and striking visual content based on dynamic light solutions and spectacular optical illusions.
- Tags
- Urban design, lighting, light show, dynamic light, sound show
- Production Technology
- The lighting system includes over 15,000 RGBW-controlled pixels, 2,000 linear RGBW lamps and 2 LED media facades. They form a system of more than 200 DMX universes with over 100,000 DMX addresses managed by 100 custom automation cabinets. There are several scenarios of its work, launched automatically according to the schedule. If needed, they can be changed or launched remotely. The technical solution withstands harsh winters with strong winds and temperature up to -40 degrees Celsius.
- Design Challenge
- The most difficult task was to translate and interpret the content from the visual language to the dots and lamps on the bridge. Video shows us the whole and indivisible wave but in the reality it is made of thousands of tiny lamps scattered along the bridge cables.
- Research
- Research started with list of the main locations and themes, connected with the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The show is divided into 9 chapters, each one represents immanent subject of the Krasnoyarsk region: Yenisei river (blue color); Taiga, the boreal forest (green); Gold Rush (golden); Heart of Siberia as the synonym of Krasnoyarsk (red); Steel Mill (orange sparks); Krasnoyarsk Pillars (yellow and orange); Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station (light blue); mountains (purple); snow and ice (icy).
- Inspiration
- The plot of the show reflects genius loci of the city, its natural surroundings and unique features. Due to the physical limitations of the working surfaces it was impossible to display realistic images on the architectural objects except media facades, so the show is based on the emotional design concept with the associative color and visual row, containing symbols of Krasnoyarsk, such as the Yenisei river, Krasny Yar, Krasnoyarsk Pillars etc.
- Project Duration
- The project started in September 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia and is still running during the city holidays.
- Operation Flow
- The main goal of this project was to transform the urban environment of the Krasnoyarsk city center from the unpleasant place, which doesn’t inspire people into a recreation zone for walking and leisure. Nowadays the reality shows, how the center of Krasnoyarsk is changing and becomes more and more favorable and beloved by local people and tourists from Russia and other countries. The show “The Heart of Siberia” become a sightseeing and one of the visiting card of the city.
- Team Members
- Boris Kislitsin
Dmitry Napolnov
Roman Kuligin
Julia Artamonova
Pavel Bezrodny
Andrey Belov
Alexey Churochkin
Anastasia Kulyabina
Dmitry Vikhornov
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