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Anolis ArcSource 4MCs installed at Hildesheim’s Wärmespeicher

Anolis ArcSource 4MCs installed at Hildesheim’s Wärmespeicher
Anolis ArcSource 4MCs installed at Hildesheim’s Wärmespeicher

Eighty Anolis ArcSource 4MC LED fixtures were specified to illuminate the indicator for a new heat storage tank (Wärmespeicher) installed in the Drispenstedt residential district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany.

 

The 17.5 metre high and 4 metre wide structure was designed by Pape + Pape Architekten from Kassel. It contains an internal cylindrical water feature which is illuminated by the ArcSources which are programmed to indicate how much of the energy generated from the nearby natural gas-fired combined heat and power plant (CHP) is currently stored and available for use.

 

The lighting installation was commissioned by energy company Energieversorgung Hildesheim (EVI) and the lighting design was imagined and delivered by locally based architectural lighting specialist SSP Design, with Matthias Schiminski and Henrik Nolte as the project’s lead engineer and designer. When there is a lot of energy stored up and available for use to heat the nearby homes, the 20,000 litre water feature glows red. When there is less available, the colour gradually morphs through to blue.

 

EVI and the city’s planning and development department Gemeinnützige Baugesellschaft Hildesheim (GBG) initiated the plan which also involved the renovation of heating systems in 1600 homes over two and a half years, at a cost of around 3 million Euros. Drispenstedt local council was also a partner in the project, and one of their stipulations was that during the hours of darkness, the illumination should not be any brighter than the surrounding street and ambient lighting levels, and therefore not intrusive or distracting to residents.

 

The ArcSources are positioned back-to-back and vertically orientated on a series of special brackets that run up the height of the tower providing colour transitions. The Anolis ArcPower drivers are connected to a port on the power generator control system, so they can receive the correct capacity and thermal data as related to the storage status, which is converted to DMX and then change the colour of the fixtures. The shifting energy storage levels are an effect that people can watch in real time.

 

(Photos: SSP Design)

 

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Anolis ArcSource 4MCs installed at Hildesheim’s WärmespeicherAnolis ArcSource 4MCs installed at Hildesheim’s Wärmespeicher

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