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Project HighLIGHT:
HLB Weaves a River of Light through City Creek Center |
Illumination Breathes New Light and Life into Revitalized Downtown Development
As part of the revitalization of downtown Salt Lake City, the 23-acre City Creek Center brings business and people back to the heart of town with a walkable place to live, interact, shop, and work. HLB’s lighting design for this new mixed-use center encourages participation and discovery with visual and temporal hierarchies reinforced with layers of light using nuances of intensity, color, direction, and scale. As such, “luminaires become a part of the visual vocabulary lending a cohesiveness of character, while supporting opportunities for special moments and interest as one moves throughout the site”, says Laura Yates, HLB Senior Associate and Project Manager.
Collaborating with a large team of multiple partners, HLB Lighting Design’s illumination responds to the architecture and provides focus to features while appropriately relating to the various scales of space. Major design challenges included properly lighting the multitudinous architectural elements in conjunction with balancing color and character of lighting in an environment with a fully retractable glass roof, open structures, and circulation paths. Fostering an aesthetic bridge between contemporary and historic, a family of custom luminaires was developed bringing a modern and sophisticated twist to a more traditional expression. New lamp posts based on the existing turn of the century historic city streetlights were also created in three versions: double-headed, single, and plinth for a unified composition respectful of the city’s history.
Sources include maintenance-friendly and energy-efficient LED, HID, and linear fluorescent. A color temperature of 3000k was selected to reinforce the warm and welcoming environment. Color correction filters are employed throughout the site to enhance the mood and atmosphere, and optically controlled luminaires prevent spill light into residential spaces. Fiber optics and LEDs are utilized in locations that are difficult to access to simplify maintenance. Installed in architectural enclosures easily accessible from the rooftops 70 feet above the ground, HID theatrical luminaires provide not only the ambient illumination in the retail concourse but also project soft, dappled light to reinforce the exterior elemental attributes of the creek winding through the interior property that is representative of the mountain stream pioneers built Salt Lake City around.
HLB made use of an astronomical time clock project-wide for energy and light level control allowing for different scenes based upon time of day, weather, events, plant growth, and including the ability for 50% dimming for night after hours. Reflecting principals of environmental stewardship, City Creek Center has been LEED Silver certified with the Neighborhood Development Pilot Project, and four of the residential towers have been recognized with LEED Gold certification.
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Special Features
-Custom Decorative Lighting
-Theatrical Pattern Projectors
-LED and Fiber Optic Lighting
-Project-wide Energy and Light Level Control System
LEED Certification
-LEED Silver Certified Neighborhood Development Pilot Project
-LEED Gold Certified Residential Towers 1, 5, 6, and 7
Master Developer: City Creek Reserve, Inc.
Retail Developer: The Taubman Company
Architects: Hobbs+Black, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, Callison
Size: 23 acres; 3 city blocks |
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