1FA (Finsbury Avenue)

Category A Installation

The entire building was lit with the RIDI LINIA system which is a product used for both industrial and commercial buildings. Supplied in black finish, the product looked both modern and technical for what is a completely stripped back exposed services space. The LINIA system was supplied with the MPS low-glare luminaire modules to provide office compliance together with exceptional efficiency and performance. RIDI supplied over 6000 of these luminaires onto its proprietary pre-wired trunking system. The system also fed the centrepiece atrium lighting that consisted of over 200 Spectral FINY’s to create a pixel effect at high level.

Category B – Fitout

LINIA came into its own for the various office Cat B fitouts, including space taken by Product Madness and a leading Cyber Security firm, due to its sheer flexibility – because the luminaire modules are easily demounted and can be repositioned anywhere along the trunking with tool-less simplicity. Clearly feature and decorative lighting was introduced to the various areas of the fit-out contracts, but they all worked around the core LINIA product which proved to be the mainstay lighting for the working zones. LINIA also had the advantage in that it could also be used to power additional feature and decorative products – not just from RIDI Group.

At the heart of the atrium is the rather fun Atoll café facility. The structure is designed to bring the park into the workspace and was designed by Morag Myerscough. Here they were able to take playfully take advantage of the tuneable white FINY products and set the mood according to weather and time of day. The combination is of a dramatic and organic looking atrium.