Prize(s) Honorable Mentions
Company dpa Lighting Consultants
Lead Designers dpa lighting consultants, Gary Campbell – Partner
Other Designer's names dpa lighting consultants, Ela Karel Keen, Associate
Client Harvey Nichols
Photo Credits Courtesy of Studio Four IV
Other Credits Interior Design - Studio Four IV
Completion Date September 2019
Project Location Doha Festival City, Doha, Qatar
Entry DescriptionHarvey Nichols Doha Festival City is positioned over two large area floors. Since the floor areas are generous the floor to ceiling heights are relatively high to retain good spatial proportions. Typical ceiling heights were 4 metres or more. At the time of the store design and construction LED light sources were not sufficiently powerful or with consistent light quality to use within the ceiling ambient and display fixtures. Therefore we opted for compact metal halide reflector lamps, Philips Mastercolour, to give us the appropriate illuminance levels, brightness contrast ratios, and colour rendering quality necessary. All lighting integrated into the display furniture or within interior design features was LED, and with this combination we were able to optimise energy efficiency for the lighting installation. Ceiling lighting was specified to be discreet either recessed into ceiling roughs or as compact adjustable recessed and plaster-in downlights. Flexibility was key to the project and we opted for track and spot lighting as the main ambient and display lighting solution. We worked closely with the Interior Designer to integrate all lighting as discreetly as possible and to achieve the best lit effect for all the details. Special attention was placed on the VM locations to provide added impact and visual interest with the use of suspended light features and ceiling details.
Sustainability ApproachOur simple sustainability aims were to use only energy efficient light sources throughout that would provide the appropriate light levels and light quality for the store parameters. All light sources are LED and compact metal halide. The personal shopping area has some dimming facility but the main store areas are switched only, but in groups that can be selected for store open, store closed, through the night security.
