Crescent Lighting have supplied fibre optic lighting to the dramatic new water feature in the Howard Street pedestrian area of Sheffield.The Howard Street and Hallam Garden areas are part of a huge regeneration project to link the railway station to the city centre via an attractive pedestrian route. Howard Street has been pedestrianised and landscaped with a new paved surface, lit seating areas, and new street lighting, as well as the new water feature.
The water feature (the design of which is a metaphor for molten steel running down the hill, cooling as it goes, before disappearing down the 'sink'!) comprises a fountain feeding a rill leading down to the collection sink. The water is re circulated passing through a filter system, before being pumped back up to the fountain. The fountain and rill areas are covered in a 'hot metal' mosaic tile design with the colours changing as the rill goes further away from the fountain and towards the sink, and the 'metal' cools.
Lighting designers Sutton Vane Associates worked closely with Sheffield City Council to devise and decided that the fountain and rill feature should be lit with fibre optics.
The fountain used paver fittings with clear glass lenses, whilst the rill used the lightbar linear fibre optic system, which was hard anodised and resin filled to protect it from the elements. There was over 30 metres of Lightbar fitted to one side of the rill powered by eight IP 45 250w HQI CRE4625 projectors.
Thanks go to Sutton Vane and Sheffield City Council.
