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The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum
Riverside, CA, USA
Installed Products
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture located in Riverside, California is a public-private partnership between RAM, the City of Riverside, and comedian Cheech Marin.
The Cheech Center is intended to be a locus of Chicano painting, sculpture and photography. Its 61,420 square feet of space is curated with a variety of paintings from comedian Cheech Marin’s personal collection culminated as one of the world’s foremost collections of Chicano art.
Los Angeles-based architects Page & Turnbull worked with museum architects WHY to convert a 1964 mid-century library into a modern museum and cultural center. While preserving the historic and vintage aspects of the original building, such as the exposed brick walls, the stainless-steel framework, and aluminum stair railings with restored decorative polyester panels, the design team was able to transform the historic building to represent something entirely new both inside and out. The lighting design for this historical renovation project was placed in the expert hands of the Los Angeles office of HLB Lighting.
The design team used over 500 pieces of Targetti's versatile LEDO with Dynamic Beam Shaping (DBS) technology to provide the main source of illumination throughout the museum. The LEDO DBS luminaires with the EUROSTANDARD SURFACE TRACK were featured in the museum gallery's and common areas. Specially designed for museum lighting, LEDO track light projectors provide precise beam control, the high color quality of the light and excellent color rendering.
These projectors feature innovative Dynamic Beam Shaping (DBS) technology with variable optics that can vary the beam opening using digital input without using any mechanical system.
The combination of the expertise of TARGETTI and the exclusive technology from the American company LensVector, brought about the development of fixtures fitted with an optical system that can dynamically vary the beam opening angle passing in a gradual manner from a more concentrated SPOT 16° type emission to a wider WIDE FLOOD 42º, flowing fluidly through all the all points in between. This technology based on the use of liquid crystal lenses makes it possible to vary the beam without using any mechanical or mobile parts but by using any smart lighting control system.
The LensVector technology uses flat lenses equipped with liquid crystal molecules whose orientation is controlled by an electric field capable of activating a process of light diffusion up to a maximum of 50°.
It is controlled using an IoT system using a Casambi® application available for IOS and Android. With the App it is possible to dim the source, set the desired beam opening, create dynamic scenes and soon also changing the color temperature in Tunable light versions.
LEDO DBS combines the most advanced optical system technology with wireless control, all in one fixture. The Dynamic Beam Shaping (DBS) Control features maximum optical flexibility without the use of any mechanical parts. It is controlled via wireless bluetooth through the Casambi app interface allowing for individual fixture, beam and dimming control.
Lighting Design: HLB Lighting
Architects: Page & Turnbull | WHY
Photography: © Henri Khodaverdi
AWARDS: 2024 Preservation Design Award
The Cheech Center is intended to be a locus of Chicano painting, sculpture and photography. Its 61,420 square feet of space is curated with a variety of paintings from comedian Cheech Marin’s personal collection culminated as one of the world’s foremost collections of Chicano art.
Los Angeles-based architects Page & Turnbull worked with museum architects WHY to convert a 1964 mid-century library into a modern museum and cultural center. While preserving the historic and vintage aspects of the original building, such as the exposed brick walls, the stainless-steel framework, and aluminum stair railings with restored decorative polyester panels, the design team was able to transform the historic building to represent something entirely new both inside and out. The lighting design for this historical renovation project was placed in the expert hands of the Los Angeles office of HLB Lighting.
The design team used over 500 pieces of Targetti's versatile LEDO with Dynamic Beam Shaping (DBS) technology to provide the main source of illumination throughout the museum. The LEDO DBS luminaires with the EUROSTANDARD SURFACE TRACK were featured in the museum gallery's and common areas. Specially designed for museum lighting, LEDO track light projectors provide precise beam control, the high color quality of the light and excellent color rendering.
These projectors feature innovative Dynamic Beam Shaping (DBS) technology with variable optics that can vary the beam opening using digital input without using any mechanical system.
The combination of the expertise of TARGETTI and the exclusive technology from the American company LensVector, brought about the development of fixtures fitted with an optical system that can dynamically vary the beam opening angle passing in a gradual manner from a more concentrated SPOT 16° type emission to a wider WIDE FLOOD 42º, flowing fluidly through all the all points in between. This technology based on the use of liquid crystal lenses makes it possible to vary the beam without using any mechanical or mobile parts but by using any smart lighting control system.
The LensVector technology uses flat lenses equipped with liquid crystal molecules whose orientation is controlled by an electric field capable of activating a process of light diffusion up to a maximum of 50°.
It is controlled using an IoT system using a Casambi® application available for IOS and Android. With the App it is possible to dim the source, set the desired beam opening, create dynamic scenes and soon also changing the color temperature in Tunable light versions.
LEDO DBS combines the most advanced optical system technology with wireless control, all in one fixture. The Dynamic Beam Shaping (DBS) Control features maximum optical flexibility without the use of any mechanical parts. It is controlled via wireless bluetooth through the Casambi app interface allowing for individual fixture, beam and dimming control.
Lighting Design: HLB Lighting
Architects: Page & Turnbull | WHY
Photography: © Henri Khodaverdi
AWARDS: 2024 Preservation Design Award
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