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Hotel Belvoir, Rüschlikon | CH
Client: Heinz P. Meier, Hotel Belvoir, Rüschlikon | CH
Interior design: architektur & designbüro, Zurich | CH
Electrical consultants: enerpeak salzmann ag, Dübendorf | CH
Lighting design: Lichtkompetenz, Zurich | CH
Lighting solution: LUXMATE PROFESSIONAL lighting
management system, ZBOX lighting control systems and
CIRCLE control points, ONDARIA circular luminaire,
ONLITE central battery system, ONLITE escape sign and
emergency luminaires
What do you get when the client comes from a scientific, technical
background, the interior designer likes to be provocative and the
hotel operator is an experienced old hand? A hotel like the Belvoir.
The hotel echoes the shape of a nearby glacier and offers magnifi-
cent views across Lake Zurich.
Technology is meant to help, not hinder
That is the yardstick by which the lighting control system is also
judged. The client and the future hotel operator both assumed dif-
ferent roles several times during the planning phase: the role of
guest in order to test user-friendliness, or the role of operator with
the primary concern being low maintenance costs, energy savings
and simple maintenance.
Lighting control strategies
ZBOX is is a self-contained system that controls one hotel room and
responds fl exibly to requested changes. CIRCLE multifunction switches
make it clear to guests immediately how to operate the system.
Guests can set ready-made lighting scenes at the press of a button.
The horizontal shutters are controlled by a central daylight measur-
ing head but can nevertheless be raised or lowered manually. Auto-
matically closed blinds prevent the build-up of heat when a room is
unoccupied. Inserting a key card automatically opens the blinds and
activates the “welcome” lighting scene. A morning, midday and
evening scene is programmed for the restaurant; their brightness is
easily adjusted by touching the iPod-like CIRIA user interface. The
lighting control systems, emergency lighting system and emergency
luminaires have been provided by a single supplier. The fewer inter-
faces there are, the easier and quicker it is to put a system into service.
Plug & Play system for hotel rooms |
ZBOX
Central daylight-based control and emergency lighting
control | LUXMATE PROFESSIONAL, ONLITE CENTRAL
