Haw Par Villa ヘリテージライティング by Stanley Tay Wee King

Haw Par Villa ヘリテージライティング by Stanley Tay Wee King is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 照明製品・器具デザイン Competition Category.

鉄照明· 2022

Haw Par Villa ヘリテージライティング

by Stanley Tay Wee King

Client: Singapore Tourism Board

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 照明 Category

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The Design

About Haw Par Villa ヘリテージライティング

ハウパーヴィラは、シンガポールにある8.5ヘクタールの公園を対象としたヘリテージ照明計画である。1930年代に築かれたこの公園には、中国の民間伝承に基づく彫刻やジオラマが数多く点在している。20を超える彫刻展示が照らし出され、それぞれの物語のディテールが浮かび上がるよう、一つひとつ個別に照明が計画された。入口では動きのあるライトショーが通行人を園内へと誘い、2700〜3000ケルビンの温かみのある白色光が来園者を園路に沿って導く。敷地は保存法によって保護されているため、穿孔を避け、照明器具を支持する専用構造物を新たに製作している。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Haw Par Villa ヘリテージライティングは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Haw Par Villa ヘリテージライティングは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Haw Par Villa ヘリテージライティングは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The design is a balancing act between staying true to the sculptures’ stories, while making them more accessible than before. The sculptures can only be enjoyed when visitors visit the park, so the first design intent was to use moving lights situated at the park’s entrance to draw visitors into the park. Once inside, visitors are then led naturally by the lighting to the most important sculptures. Each sculpture’s lighting is then handcrafted to showcase the stories to the greatest effect.
Dimensions & Packaging: The entire Haw Par Villa park is 8.5HA in area. We lighted up more than 20 individual sculpture attractions, the smallest of them about 10 sq metres in area, and the largest about 200 sq metres. The highest light structure we built was over 5 metres. Many kilometres of wiring and cabling was laid to enable power delivery to the new lights. It was a massive engineering undertaking.
Tags: lightingdesign, lightingconsultant, heritagelighting, landscapelighting
Production Technology: There are too many different kinds of lighting products used to individually mention. More importantly, all SKUs were customized at the factory to our exact specifications - length, luminosity, color temperature, throw of the light, and other details. In this way, most products are bespoke, even though the SKUs are readily available. The key product we used for the realization of the moving light show is the Gobo projector made by Martin Harmon, and we worked closely with them to enable a moving slide show. We also build a structure from scratch to house the Marting Harmon projector.
Design Challenge: This project is on a national heritage site, protected by conservation laws. Drilling and hacking are strictly prohibited. Many natural first-choice solutions cannot be used, and we had to constantly create new solutions from second-best options to get the desired lighting effect. A lot of our time was building structures that would give us total installation flexibility. And because each sculpture was unique, it was like 20 individual projects, with no economies of scale.
Research: We did both cultural and technical research. Culturally, many of the dioramas are famous Chinese folklores, and we needed to dive deeper into these folklores in order to light them properly. In a battle scene of the Eight Immortals, we studied old books to know the 'order of battle', so key details would be lit. Technically, we used rapid prototyping to quickly cycle through variations for the best solution. We tested whenever we could, at our office, on-site, and using miniatures.
Inspiration: Built by the Tiger Balm family in the 1930s, Haw Par Villa is an oriental park containing sculptures and dioramas from the epic to the macabre. Over the years, visitorship fell steadily due to changing tastes. The brief was to breathe new life to these sculptures through lighting, and re-engage a new generation of visitors with its timeless folklores. We are honored to win the proposal competition to work with the Singapore Tourism Board (the park custodian) on this national commission.
Project Duration: The project started in February 2020, and all installations finished in December 2020. However, the project was suspended from April - July of 2020 due to pandemic lockdown. The project is situated in the Republic of Singapore.
Operation Flow: The moving light show is situated right at the park's entrance, so that when passers-by experience the light show, they will develop curiosity about the contents inside the park. Warm white (2700-3000K light) is chosen so when visitors come into the park, it feels like a resort, increasing its comfort level. Lighting on the main dioramas are then hand-crafted for overall effect of drawing the visitors into the details.
Patents: Illuminating Asia SG Pte Ltd
Team Members: Stanley Wee King Tay
Aries Lay Hoon Goh
Addison Yu Ann Goh
Image Credits: Illuminating Asia SG Pte Ltd