Light Up the Love River Bay 户外照明装置 by Kaohsiung City Government

Light Up the Love River Bay 户外照明装置 by Kaohsiung City Government is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铂金奖 in 照明项目与灯光艺术设计 Competition Category.

铂金照明项目· 2023

Light Up the Love River Bay 户外照明装置

by Kaohsiung City Government

Client: Kaohsiung City Government

A' Design Award 铂金奖 Winner in 照明项目 Category

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The Design

About Light Up the Love River Bay 户外照明装置

《点亮爱河湾》是位于高雄爱河湾的户外照明项目。该项目分为三大部分：建筑照明灯具大范围点亮两岸河堤，色彩缓缓变换；高雄流行音乐中心的演出照明则随音乐节奏快速变色；流星灯组构成十一座六边形装置，宛如海域之间的岛屿，在水面上铺展达3,300平方米；跨港灯光横跨大虎鲸桥，绵延400米。民众可通过手机应用程序自行选择河岸的灯光色彩。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铂金奖

Light Up the Love River Bay 户外照明装置是 A' Design Award 铂金奖得主，这是授予真正卓越、优雅和宏伟设计的极具声望的认可。铂金奖得主是创造的奇迹，是智力创造力极限的见证，展现出其设计师无与伦比的专业精神和天才。这些设计被期待成为定义一个时代的美学、造福社会、并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术边界的最负盛名的作品。Light Up the Love River Bay 户外照明装置展现出超凡脱俗的卓越水准，以其有益而宝贵的特质毫无疑问地让世界变得更美好。Light Up the Love River Bay 户外照明装置是一件赢得 A' Design Award 铂金奖的作品，它唤起欲望，启发人心，令人愉悦，并迸发出巨大的喜悦。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The design team used a cooler color temperature and colored light to echo the building form and future vision. The exhibition is divided into three sections (METAFLOWS - Light Islands), which echoes the impression of waves; the (Great Tiger Bridge), which challenges the distance between the lights and the audience; and (Kaohsiung Music Center), which perfectly combines the music, lights, and the scenery of the riverbank of the Love River. The design team uses (light) to link the Kaohsiung Music Center and the Love River basin to light up Kaohsiung.
Dimensions & Packaging: There are three sections in the (Light up the Love River Bay). The first is the light of the sound of Kaohsiung Music Center. It combines light and music, extending to the riverbank, the sea, and the sky. The second is the cross-harbor light of the Great Tiger Bridge, which crosses from the Love Pier to the Glorious Pier, spanning 400 meters to connect the world and look back at our city. The eleven hexagonal installations symbolize the islands that lie between the seas, and the 3,300 square meters of light art installations on the sea reflect the new urban architecture of the harbor.
Tags: Kaohsiung Music Center, Kaohsiung, Love River Bay, Pier, Lantern Festival.
Production Technology: The Love River Bay in Kaohsiung has a profound cultural and historical background. The design team uses lighting as a medium to further promote the comprehensive tourism development of Kaohsiung. The Kaohsiung Music Center, which is an important tourist spot in Kaohsiung, will become the central part of all the lighting systems. Furthermore, it links the Kaohsiung Music Center and the Love River Bay with (light) to create a landmark of (Asia New Bay Area) and (the Love River basin).
Design Challenge: Three different types of lighting are installed in the exhibition: the lights installed on the riverbank are architectural luminaires, which can illuminate a large area, have a mild effect, and change colors slowly. The landmark, Kaohsiung Music Center, uses concert lighting that can change colors precisely, create a strong visual effect, and change itself quickly with the music. Finally, the installation art uses meteor lights, which can present a more delicate illumination. In a large exhibition space, it is a challenge to integrate these three types of lighting with different characteristics.
Research: As the cradle of local music, the Lantern Festival lights up Love River Bay with (light), focusing on the Kaohsiung Music Center. This is a way for people to see that all the artists who work hard for music are developing the culture that belongs to modern Taiwan. Light is hope, light is energy, light is guidance, and light is a transmission. Light leads people to recall the beauty of the past, and once again brings the connection between the river and the people of Kaohsiung, making Kaohsiung move forward to a future full of glory.
Inspiration: With the 2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival celebrating the Chinese Lantern Festival, the design team used the characteristics of "light" to illuminate this beautiful gem and convey the vitality with light. Finally, the Kaohsiung Music Center was established at the end of 2021 at the river mouth, and the light will be stretched from the upper reaches of the Love River Bay to Kaohsiung Music Center, gathering the enthusiasm of Kaohsiung people and coalescing in Kaohsiung Music Center and turning a river into the main light of the lantern festival.
Project Duration: The project finished in February 2021 in Love River Bay, Kaohsiung City.
Operation Flow: Combines music, light, and Kaohsiung's local culture while it presents the concept of the main light as a river. The audience can see the perfect composition and picture from a distance. From the combination of river, bay, building, and island, between light, dark, and color, the imagination and boundary of light are unlocked. The light environment of the Love River can be linked through intelligent technology to program the light effect of the whole area. The color of the riverbank can be decided online through an app, making the interaction between the ambient light and the residents flexible.
Team Members: LUMI Light Studio, FREES, UxU Studio, Unolai Lighting Design & Associates, JO-HIN CREATIVE CO., LTD.
Image Credits: Kaohsiung City Government