Designed by CEBRA Architects, StreetDome is an open playground and the biggest skating facility in northern Europe with both indoor and outdoor areas for skateboarding, BMX, bouldering, street ball, parkour, rollerblading, street dance, and more. Serving as a social meeting place for kids of all ages, skill levels and cultures, if street sports are your bag then this is the place for you.
Central to the StreetDome complex, primarily indoor activities like skateboarding, basketball and bouldering, is the 1,500 sq.m StreetDome Igloo. Unheated and lit primarily through sunlight during daylight hours, the dome-shaped roof hovers over a large open floor divided between a flat zone and a bowl zone, a series of skater 'pools' scooped out of the concrete floor.
Look up and the roof is divided into 12 equal triangular sections, 11 of the sections with an Elation SixPar 300 Par colour changer mounted at its apex. Sold and installed by Elation partner Unico Gruppen, each SixPar colour changer houses 18x 12-watt 6-color LED multi-chips for plenty of brightness and an expanded palette of colors.
"The client wanted to colour the ceiling in light but wanted a low power solution as well so we recommended the SixPar," stated Michael Henriksen of Unico Gruppen. "We placed one fixture to colour wash each section of the ceiling for a nice uniform look. They can colour the whole ceiling one colour or shade each section a different colour. The light also reflects down onto the sport areas below. The result is really nice. Besides the low power consumption, reliability and long LED life was also important for the client as the fixtures are hard to access and shouldn't require much service or bulb changes."
StreetDome opened in September with a Grand Opening weekend of events held in October, which Unico also supplied lighting for.
(Jim Evans)
