BEIRUT, Lebanon — Installers didn’t need squeegees or paste to decorate the studio for Lebanon’s Future TV. Like several other TV studios around the world, the studio has been equipped with Martin’s EvenLED panels to create a dynamic wallpaper effect. Ali Wazani, architect/designer, used a modular system where two vertical columns of five EvenLED panels rise around a video wall. “Originally, the client wanted simply to change the set of the daily news show from a studio-based set into a newsroom environment set,” said Wazani, managing director of Wazani & Associates. “Most of today’s TV stations, international events and productions base their design on a branding and identity brief. It is the exceptional image that we are all striving to achieve.
“EvenLED can easily brand large surfaces with dynamic moving backgrounds or generate geometric and non-geometric wall covering patterns,” Wazani added. Each EvenLED module consists of evenly spaced and individually controlled 6-watt RGB LEDs, which can be controlled and dimmed via DMX.
Positioned behind translucent glass, the EvenLED panels in the Future TV newsroom help to visually stretch the space vertically with two color-changing pillars.
Wazani said the EvenLED panels worked as a “very bright, low resolution screen that can cover super large surfaces.” He added that the panels are light, easy to install and ship, and that 100 panels can cover 100 square meters of architecture.
“Dynamic graphic designs can only be interpreted for the set on super large self luminous surfaces via LED matrix technology. The 1 x 1 meter size of the EvenLED panel is unique and forms the basic module for such a transformation of information.”
For the Future TV studio Wazani introduced a three-level atrium structure within the closed metal box structure. The ground level houses the main activities: studio and newsroom. The other two levels accommodate rooms for news editing, archives and other departments. The spacial organization makes “the internal space feel like a small technological village,” Wazani said.
Wazani has also incorporated the EvenLED panels into a studio design at Al Arabiya News Channel in Dubai. The newsroom projects serve as an “experimental design platform” for the firm’s other architectural work, incorporating advances in “materials, design strategies and the lighting industry” as the available technology evolves.
Martin Middle East supplied the EvenLED panels to Future TV.
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