ACMI Renewal

Schuler Shook provided specialist lighting design services for all public areas including retail, atrium, foyers, studio and event space. The integration of the lighting with the architecture was carefully devised and coordinated with the architect and wider design team.

The lighting is designed to enhance the visitor’s experience by presenting different atmospheres at different times of the day. Bright, diffuse, and uniform lighting during the busy daytime transforms into a more dramatic, theatrical atmospheric lighting for evening events. The lighting design allows a good balance between natural and electric light in the daylit central atrium. A DALI lighting control system provides smooth transitions and easy programming of the lighting presets.

In the event space, round ceiling coffers include and conceal all the services (lighting, speakers, fire detectors, sprinklers, air grilles) and provide a strong graphic feel to the whole ceiling.

The new lighting scheme provides the ability to introduce subtle color-changing effects. This gives ACMI greater flexibility to create special events in the common areas and reinforce ACMI’s visual presence within the context of the Federation Square precinct. 

The renewed fully-LED scheme greatly reduces power consumption and maintenance requirements. The digital lighting control system also includes a daylight harvesting function to maximize energy savings.