• SAMSUNG pavilion 1 (Olimpic park, Sydney) •
Lighting designer: Tony Davies
Lighting Supplier: Chameleon Touring System
Equipment: 24 CityColors
Located in Sydney Olympic Park near the main stadium,
Stadium Australia, Olympic Rendezvous @ Samsung (OR@S) was a fun interactive high-tech
meeting centre for athletes, the general public and the media from September 15 to October
1, 2000. A secure centre covering an area of 4,000m2, the OR@S was purpose built for
hospitality, entertainment, information, communication and events.
Olympic Rendezvous @ Samsung consisted of an Athletes Centre, Spectator Centre,
Olympic Rendezvous Plaza and Digital Interlude. The unusual design and lighting of OR@S
ensured that it was highly visible within and outside of the Olympic Park. If you didn't
know better, you could think an alien space craft had landed!
The lighting of OR@S was designed by Tony Davies and installed by Chameleon Touring
Systems. Martin Rudder of Chameleon looked after the site for the seventeen day operation.
"Samsung wanted their site to be lit with major colour washes," explained
Tony Davies. "The fixture also had to be very bright because of the ambient light
levels in the area. It also had to have a wide beam angle because of the size of the area
that had to be lit and the distance we could get away from it."
Consequently Chameleon installed 24 Studio Due CityColors to wash the building,
mainly the forecourt performance area and two sides of the car park. Later it was decided
to light another side of the car park with 1200W cyc lights with gel on them.
Six Martin PAL's were also used to project glass gobos. Control was via a MA
Scancommander.
"This project was very different to what we normally do because it was like
working on a building site," said Tony. "It all came together fairly late and
had to happen fairly quickly. There were no major problems but there was more involved
than just doing a normal job. That was partly because of the Olympic restrictions such as
getting accreditation for staff. There were long hours but it came together
smoothly."
Tony reports that during the period there were virtually no problems at all with
the installation
