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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center in China by GD-Lighting Design, Maki and Associates, LIGHTDESIGN INC.June 26th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: GD-Lighting Design The core of simplicity, I dream of it. The spirit of purity, I keep seeking it. The ultimate delicacy, I keep thinking of it. The real beauty, I keep longing for it. Happy research, I shall never give it up. Top integrity, I live for it.  Restaurant entrance on the east side, Image Courtesy © Shu He
 Seashore square-entrance, Image Courtesy © Shu He The Ode to Simplicity by Yue Ya Shan Ren seeks the path to purity and tranquility. Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center is just a shelter in town from complexity and into beauty. The building highlights openness and connectivity, so that people, space and nature can have quiet dialogues. The lighting coincides with them to hide among buildings and landscapes to give off soundless beauty.  Seashore square-front, Image Courtesy © Eric Cheung  The side of the group entrance of the art center, Image Courtesy © Shu He GD (GD-LIGHTINGDESIGN) practices simplicity all through to have all the lighting hidden among spatial levels, interfaces and constructs, creating an effect of landscape changing with every step among mountains and waters. Except for part of the floor-lamps for guiding, the overall façade lighting emphasizes artistic conception instead of depiction and outlining, echoing with the architectural style of plainness and low profile. The three huge window-style shapes facing mountain, sea and city only have their bottoms lightly decorated by light to leave appropriate space for the artistic conception.  Entrance on the east side, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Seashore square east, Image Courtesy © Eric Cheung A large area of white wall and glasses fills in the space to maximize the natural light and the sense of transparency, and people’s sight will easily interact with surrounding landscapes at the sea and the green mountains. However, it’s a great challenge for the technical level of lighting, so that lighting design must give off top neatness by ultimate simplicity and accurate light matching and controlling technologies. Except for some parts to meet the flexible demand for exhibition in the future, all the lighting devices on the ceiling that can be abandoned have been wiped off to become the smallest possible number of down lights hidden in the groove. The public passageway and the transitional space also tries to avoid any visual interference by the highest level of restrained lighting to present the visual surprise and impact of the exhibits themselves.  Seashore long corridor, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Side of the main entrance of the art center, Image Courtesy © Shu He The space façade has special materials and texture change imbedded, including glasses, red façade and black façade to create balanced yet interlaced rhythm and impression. The team of GD believes it’s part of the space, without deliberately stressing shaping but catering to lighting practices to create an effect of light and shadow by means of the textures of the light-reflecting materials. In order to meet up with the demand of temporary exhibition in a large-size space, we specially designed remote-control lamps and lanterns for the project to make point arrangement by accurate analog computation. As for details, the seemingly even and unified technique of illuminating line grooves in fact lights up space entrances to stress the guidance of the entrances.  East entrance of the art center, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Main entrance of the art center, Image Courtesy © Shu He Following humanized measure and the philosophy of being hidden in nature, Shekou Sea World Culture and Arts Center is presented to the world by an overall stance of harmonized order. The team of GD, by strict yet restrained lighting techniques, endows the culture landmark building with linear echoing inside and outside to acquire the biggest visual surprise by the ultimate restraint of lighting.  Main entrence of the art gallery, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Seashore square 2, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Main exhibition hall, Image Courtesy © Zhang Chao  Cultural square, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Entrance of the art gallery on the 1F, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Display and sales area2, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Small exhibition hall, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Entrance of the small exhibition hall, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Auditorium, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Exhibited works in main exhibition hall, Image Courtesy © Zhang Chao  Exhibited works in main exhibition hall, Image Courtesy © Zhang Chao  Exhibited works of the opening exhibition in main exhibition hall2, Image Courtesy © Shu He  Exhibited works in main exhibition hall, Image Courtesy © Zhang Chao  Wang Yenchin, Image Courtesy © GD-Lighting Design  Image Courtesy © GD-Lighting Design
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