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2025 IES Raleigh Illumination Award ~Interior Lighting Design Category~ winner:
Confidential Corporate Fit-Out
Lighting Designers: Renée Leskowat & Diane McNabb Rodriguez | Hartranft Lighting
This 40-floor, 1-million sf corporate fit-out includes 9 specialty floors with a full gym, juice bar, tech support bar, running track, quiet room, meeting spaces, multipurpose room, open office, flexible workspaces and private offices, break out areas, boardrooms, executive suites, classrooms, extensive art program, and an experience hall with an immersive art installation. The sheer scale and compressed timetable of the project required close collaboration with the extensive design and construction teams to bring the project in on time and within budget. Each unique space deserved its own tailored lighting approach, yet maintains an overall aesthetic, achieved with extensive iterations and thorough detailing and coordination.
Lighting design ensured glass enclosed meeting spaces glowed from within, specialty finishes were accented, layers of lighting supported open and enclosed spaces, and artwork was fittingly celebrated. Careful placement and spacing in response to architectural rhythms results in a beautiful quality of light with minimal hardware. Special attention was given to providing separately controlled direct and indirect sources throughout to reduce eye strain and increase user flexibility.
Daylight harvesting and smaller controls zones were utilized, exceeding code requirements to enhance the functionality and user adaptability of the lighting. Ambitiously reduced lighting power densities helped the project achieve LEED Gold.
The building occupants reduced their footprint from more than twice the space, upgrading from a more traditional workplace to hybrid attendance and a range of workspace options that better accommodate the diverse users while providing massive efficiencies to the company and its clients.
The design team and artists of the dichroic glass art installation explored six different lighting approaches for it, including multiple mockups and rounds of renderings.
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Lighting reinforces finish selections, becoming more focal downlight with visible traces here at a black ceiling, and more integral at lighter finishes beyond.
Open offices incorporate exposed ceilings and direct-indirect lighting with daylight responsive controls and local dimming override to accommodate varied user needs.
Lounge area with lighting tracing architectural elements, both direct view and concealed. The meeting space beyond glows thanks to perimeter lighting and colored glass.
A variety of work spaces were important to the user group, and lighting responds to these to reinforce the intimacy or expansiveness of each interaction.
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This meeting room features primarily indirect sources while still providing the required range of light levels. Separate zoning of controls allows for maximum flexibility.
The quiet room features completely indirect lighting and flexible user control immediately adjacent, providing a respite from the visual and auditory noise of the office.
An island of preserved plantings brings the outdoors, with tunable white responsive to outdoor conditions. Corridor lighting is provided by ceiling-wash uplight.
Coming next newsletter: 2025 IES Raleigh Illumination Award - Experiential Lighting Design Category winner
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Electrical RCDD Engineer | Apogee Consulting Group | Cary, NC | Apogee Careers
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Lighting Designer II | Pivotal Lighting Design of Affiliated Engineers | Chapel Hill, NC | AEI Careers
Electrical Engineer I | Affiliated Engineers | Chapel Hill, NC | AEI Careers
Electrical Senior Project Engineer | Affiliated Engineers | Chapel Hill, NC | AEI Careers
Electrical Senior Project Engineer - Substation | Affiliated Engineers | Chapel Hill, NC | AEI Careers
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