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Lost Worlds Exhibition - Doha
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| Point Source Productions recently completed work on a
ground-breaking temporary exhibition held in the city of Doha, Qatar. The
exhibits consisted of stunning fossil dinosaurs, ancient birds, sea
creatures and related artifacts. These were displayed in a carefully
designed museum environment, built specifically for the project within the
great Al Majlis Ballroom at the Doha Sheraton. The lighting, power, set
and showcases were all built or sourced in the UK and shipped to Doha in
over a dozen forty foot containers that had to be loaded over a month
prior to the start of the fit-up. Attended by over 114,000
visitors in its six week run, the exhibition was the first of its kind and
received much acclaim from both public and press alike. |
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PSLX (for Reed Engineering) worked in close conjunction with the
lighting designer David Atkinson (DALD), Fraser Randall Productions, the
Natural History Museum, Scena, Vertigo and Universal Fibre Optics to
provide technical coordination in pre-production stages. PSLX provided
all the conventional fixtures, mains distribution and control equipment,
plus a range of specialist display luminaires. The main over-head rig
consisted of around 120 fixtures, mostly ETC Source Four profiles and
pars plus some Selecon Acclaim PC's. The rig was hung (courtesy of Vertigo Rigging) on exhibition
grade black Thomas Superlite truss in a
combination of circles and straights and raised with twenty three 500kg
CM Lodestar motors. |
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Dimming was provided by a sixty channel system of
Light Processor ParaDim-E Patch Racks situated in the roof void, linked to the trusses with over a kilometer
of 2.5mm Socapex distributed around the convoluted grid. The ParaDim's
advanced monitoring functions allowed rack temperatures to be closely
followed, but their thermal- sensing fans kept things well inside the
limits and performed flawlessly. Stuart Parker had the unenviable task
of staying on site for the full duration of the run, just having to
replace two HPL lamps in this time!
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Truss rigging and floor protection layer |
Joists for false floor installed |
The 29m Diplodicus towers at over 8m high |
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Despite the considerable quantity of fixtures, light levels had to be
carefully controlled due to the sensitive nature of many exhibits.
Levels for these were around just 40 Lux, so careful balancing between
overhead and fibre-optic sources was nescesary. |
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