Prize(s) Winners in Visitor Experience & Museum Exhibition
Lighting Design/Product Company Light Collab
Lead Designers Yah Li Toh
Other Designer's names Annie Eng, Edmund Lim
Architecture Company The Architects Circle Pte Ltd
Client Mandai Wildlife Reserve
Photo Credits ND Photography
Completion Date August 2024
Project Location Night Safari, Singapore
Entry DescriptionPangolin Trail is a new extension of the Creature of the Night trail at the Night Safari, Singapore. On this trail, exhibited native species of nocturnal animals. Working closely with the client team, understanding the needs of letting the visitors see the nocturnal animals and yet, keeping a dark environment to allow adaption to take place for both humans and animals. Inspired by moonlight, the exhibits were bathed in specific colour temperature, simulating the bathing of moonlight. Preset lighting control system was deployed to create different lighting scenes, to encourage movement of the nocturnal animals. The sheltered walkway was also designed using high colour rendering spectrum and glareless RGBW spotlights, to control the minimal lighting in the dark environment. Quality of light and colour and also considering the naturalness of the mixing of colours and reducing the multi-coloured shadows from the RGBW fittings. Studies of gobo patterns were done, to create more natural shadows in the wild.
Sustainability ApproachUsing low wattages and outputs and individually dmx addressable fittings to control the darkness and adaptation of light and darkness walking through the trail. The fittings come with a 20-year repair and reuse guarantee.
