HAMILTON CITY HALL
Renovation & Restoration
Project Overview
Originally designed in 1968 by the late Stanley Roscoe (City Architect 1951-1960) and designated a heritage structure in 2005. We worked closely with the heritage consultant to ensure the lighting design respected the original character of the building and landscape. To accommodate the needs of the visually impaired, care was taken to control brightness and allow for the eye to adapt when transitioning from bright to dark spaces and vice versa.
The second floor luminous ceiling was refurbished and re-designed to allow for increased service ability and daylight harvesting. A network control system was designed with automatic time of day switching, daylight harvesting and manual override by City staff from any computer connected to their local network.
The site lighting was designed to allow for the detection of danger at a safe distance and the façade lighting was carefully planned so that an elegant glow could be seen from several vantage point: Street level, the neighbouring high-rise buildings and as far away as the top of the Hamilton escarpment.
Dawn Brown contributed to this project as an employee of EXP Services Inc
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The luminous ceiling spans the entire length of the second floor. The panels were retrofit with long-life energy-saver T8 lamps and drivers. Daylight sensors were carefully integrated into the acrylic panels to dim the fluorescent lamps in response to natural light.
The security desk located below the heritage staircase was illuminated with side-emitting led tape behind frosted acrylic panels. Task lighting was also provided below the transaction top using standard front-emitting led tape light.
Detailed construction drawings were prepared to ensure the lights, power supplies and cables were neatly tucked away out of view.
The television lights suspended along the inside perimeter of the domed skylight were retrofit with new tungsten halogen lamps. The original sconces were salvaged, and the lamps were replaced with new compact fluorescent Edison based A19s for energy savings. The remainder of the lighting was replaced with linear fluorescent fixtures. This design approach was clean and timeless.
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