Landscape Architect & Specifier News

APR 2013

LASN is a photographically oriented, professional journal featuring topics of concern and state-of-the-art projects designed or influenced by registered Landscape Architects.

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Left The 45-foot tall entry marquee tower (by yesco) at the traffic circle, the east end the Anaheim Convention Center Grand Plaza, puts on a light show throughout the evening with six color-changing LED spot lights (Color Kinetics). The ribbed structure is wrapped by steel mesh to mimic the tower element on the Convention Center (background right, and also seen in adjoining daytime photo right). Right Four steel overhead palm-shaped arbors enclose the three basalt water columns and precast radius benches at the ���Anaheim Fountain,��� and frame the Anaheim Convention Center. light display. A different show can be programmed for presentation every half hour. The design team worked with Targetti/Poulsen to develop modified versions of their Icare and Phoenix DMX controllable RGB in-grade LED luminaires, and also with Electronic Theatre Controls to assemble the over 1,500 channels of control. The result is a landscape of light ���flowing��� organically from one fountain to the other. Themed water features anchor each end of the Grand Plaza ���river,��� with a smaller water feature at the central fountain plaza, creating a visual link between the Hilton and Marriott hotels. These water features are sculptural, focal elements, metaphors for Southern California mountain and beach landscapes. The Grand Plaza ���Ocean Fountain,��� a reflection of the iconic tower on the convention center, is an impressive upward projection of water composed 40 Landscape Architect and Specifier News of three cascading water levels. The fountain, just outside the convention center, has amphitheater seating for concerts, small venue events and just plain people watching. LED light strips under the poured-in-place amphitheater seat walls and at the fountains create a light shadow and soft light glow, emphasizing the form of the fountain and echoing the curvilinear forms of the convention center building. The ���Ocean Fountain��� lighting has a vast color-changing system that also controls the fountain pumps and jets. The ���Mountain Fountain��� represents the Santa Ana peaks that can be viewed in the distance on axis with the Grand Plaza and Anaheim Stadium. The fountain walls that contain different pool levels are finished to represent geologic sedimentary layers. The fountain layout is based upon the Fibonacci mathematical sequence known as the ���Golden

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