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Pulsar Fixtures Energise Turkish Super-Club
Halikarnas Nightclub, Bodrum, Turkey
The Halikarnas Nightclub in Bodrum, Turkey, was one of the largest on the
Turkish Aegean coast and catered up to 4000 clubbers at the peak of its
summer season. It shaped the area as a nightlife hotspot, a pulsating centre
of entertainment for locals, tourists, and the jet set crowd. Now some thirty
years on from its foundation, it was seen as time to re-fit the club with the
latest, brightest, and loudest equipment. The brief soon changed, however,
as the original club was to be demolished and rebuilt from the ground up.
The designers – and later project managers – Matthew Button and Trent
O’Connor of ArchLite were to become tasked with designing “the best
looking venue in the world”.
dome for the AR111 body, numerous ChromaSpheres with ChromaStrips
at their base, and AR111 AngleFlushes as a standard downlighter picking
out Ionic columns, walls, artwork, and dance podiums. The semi-circular
entrance tunnel is a particularly impressive feature of the club, the walls
uplit by ChromaPowerLines embedded into the floor and set with 256
domed ChromaPoints. Trent explained that although essentially all of the
venue is pixel-mapped together, “the tunnel is running separately from
the rest of the club to make that ‘wow factor’ on entry. It’s one of the best
looking parts too, alongside the VIP Entrance, the UV Geo-Dome, and the
Stage Bar”.
The architectural plans changed on a regular basis as the project took
shape, and the initial equipment list expanded from a single side of A4
to nearly ten sheets by the time the resort was opened – with yet more
pieces materialising in the weeks and months following. Alongside other
manufacturers’ show lighting and sound equipment, Pulsar provided nearly
all of the colour-changing architectural elements, highlighting features and
creating a beautiful ambience across the entire complex. Pulsar’s reliability,
durability, and dynamic colour-changing TriColour LED fixtures were some
of the biggest selling points for a versatile design needing a long lifespan.
Elsewhere in the club are numerous other fixtures contributing to the
overall atmosphere, such as ChromaFlood 100s and 200s, InGround 50 floor
mounted fixtures, ChromaScape AR111s, all of which configurable by Pulsar
Fixture Mangement (PFM) and driven by an array of ChromaZone controllers
and Pulsar data splitters. Graves said that it was “an amazing achievement”
that in three weeks from the placement of the order, Pulsar delivered all of
the “customised TriColour LED fixtures of many different formats along with
custom ChromaZone drivers to go with them” – not to mention the install
time of only two weeks after this delivery.
The project equipment was sourced from LEDsistem, a new Turkish
distributor headed up by Pulsar old-boy Andy Graves, who provided onsite support and specialist consultation for the designers and architects.
LEDsistem provided dual-lingual teams to ease the installation process
and reduce language issues. Over 1000 ChromaRange fixtures were used,
including the first models of a custom designed UV-rated polycarbonate
Overall, however, it was said that the installation looked fantastic. O’Connor
remarked that in underneath the highly polished appearance, “the venue is
still a work in progress. Next season though, we can focus on tidying up and
optimising the programming because we’ll already be installed – there’ll
less pressure to update and create a new look for the venue without the
pressure of the grand opening!”
Based in the heart of Cambridge UK, Pulsar develops and manufactures LED lighting and lighting control solutions for professional architectural and entertainment applications around the world.
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