i-Vision has supplied and installed a highly atmospheric lighting scheme at the Courtyard Hotel in Leixlip, just outside Dublin.
The 40-room hotel, in a building on the banks of the River Liffey which was Ireland's first and original Guinness Brewery in 1756, contains two top class restaurants and four bars, six conference suites and exterior seating for 1000 people.
The hotel brought in i-Vision's Geoff Jones to advise on the design of the more specialist areas needing illumination, particularly the externals.
The main courtyard entrance is wide, and at the back of the hotel. It contains raised covered 'apres ski' areas for sitting out in the winter, with a touch of Victorian style Dublin 'street' and a large water feature at one end. Jones specified twenty-two 1 Watt LED fittings for each après ski area, which are embedded in the stonework and decking, pointing upwards.
The courtyard walls are lit with i-Vision colour changing Lumos 3 Exterior down-lighters, mounted in the soffits all around the courtyard, illuminating the stone walls below.
For the entry areas into the hotel, bars and restaurant, copper housed up and down-lighters were used on either side of the door, complete with Lumos 3W LED fittings.
The restaurant entrance door is glass fronted, and the glass on the first floor of the entrance area is uplit with a series of Lumos 600 mm strips creating interesting reflections and refractions on the glass. Further 1 Watt LEDs re fitted into the soffits.
The entrance into the courtyard is covered, so Jones recommended brick lights to brighten this up, complete with low energy lamps. The walls are down-washed with Lumos 100 RGB strips.
The river frontage and garden is overlooked by most of the rooms, so it was important to have this looking its best at night. It's here that the two wings - old and new - of the hotel amalgamate, so Jones particularly wanted to integrate and connect both elements via lighting . He used the same fixtures, up-lighting both wings with 150 Watt narrow beam units, complete with amber dichroic filters.
The grassy area of the garden and the riverbank are lit with electric green MBI floods.
To illuminate the hotel's eight-sided tower, Lumos 600 strips were chosen, placed at the base of the 8 sides. Below the tower, for the Bridal Suite balcony, Jones continued the fashion of down-lighters in the soffits, offset with some blue in-grounds in the balcony decking, shining upwards.
All the architectural lighting is controlled via two ESA 512 DMX units with two Lumos Touch remote packs. These each offer eight pre-set scenes and link to a PC for programming.
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