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WorldClass Fitness Club
World Class Nagorny is a premium fitness centre in Yekaterinburg.
Eliseeff Culinary Café
Site: Zlata Pechka pie cafe at 32 Khokhryakova St.
Project year: 2014/2015
Project author: Transforma design group (Danil Anikin)
In this wonderful and certainly the most delicious project we tried our best to bring the authors' lovely idea to life, which created a very cosy and comfortable atmosphere in the venue. The walls are clad in an unusual material - shingle cladding, also known as dranka or gont. It is made from wooden blocks: planks are split off the block with a special cleaver. Dranka is usually made of larch, as in our case; in the past, dranka roofing was used on houses.
Part of the walls is clad in rustic boards made of solid pine and painted in a special way so as to look old. The shop equipment was built in our furniture workshop and faced with artificial stone. We selected the luminaires and the LED strips for this venue. The interior gains originality from beautifully lit niche elements made of lacquered MDF, decorative 'stove' elements, golden pots and other small touches.
Separately, I want to thank the owner of the venue, Elena Sergeevna, for her wonderful and delicious pies and pastries - and I would like to invite everyone to this very sweet and joyful place for a pastry.
Lighting technology
Lighting technology is an applied field of science and engineering dealing with the generation, spatial redistribution, measurement and practical use of optical radiation. For a long time its role was limited to providing visibility at night, but modern lighting technology has grown into a complex interdisciplinary industry at the intersection of optics, materials science, microelectronics, architecture and neurobiology.
The fundamental turning point in the industry was the solid-state revolution — the transition to semiconductor light sources (LED). LEDs displaced traditional incandescent lamps and gas-discharge tubes thanks to phenomenal energy efficiency, miniature size, longevity (tens of thousands of operating hours) and high resistance to mechanical damage. This made it possible to abandon bulky luminaires in favour of integrated architectural solutions, concealed lighting and ultra-thin optical systems based on secondary optics (lenses, collimators and microprismatic diffusers).
The approach to light quality has changed in parallel. Where luminous efficacy (lumens per watt) used to be the main criterion, the focus has now shifted to colour rendering (CRI and TM-30 indices) and visual comfort. The suppression of parasitic flicker and control of the discomfort glare index (UGR) have become key parameters.
The key trend in modern lighting technology is the Human Centric Lighting (HCL) concept. The discovery of photosensitive retinal ganglion cells proved that the spectral composition and intensity of light directly govern our circadian rhythms. By changing the colour temperature (from a warm, relaxing 2700 K spectrum to a cold, invigorating 6500 K) during the day, modern dynamic lighting systems synchronise the production of melatonin and cortisol, improving concentration during the day and promoting deep sleep at night.
The integration of lighting technology with digital protocols (DALI-2, Zigbee, Bluetooth Mesh) and presence and daylight sensors has turned luminaires into key nodes of smart buildings and cities, where light switches on exactly where and when it is needed.