NanoLumens provides 22 Screens Led to Spokane Airport

To update the terminal, NanoLumens has designed, developed and installed two Led display solutions, one of which is a welcome wall covering a curved wall of 6 metre, with two columns on each side, and the other is a Led spider of 8 pieces hanging from the ceiling of the Rotunda.

Getting inspired by nature, NanoLumens has installed 22 Led screens at an intersection located at Spokane International Airport, including a 'chandelier' of 3.437 square meters suspended above the roundabout.

the Spokane International Airport, the second largest in Washington state, is the gateway to the Inland Northwest, a region that includes the city of Spokane, Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Its Board of Directors considered modernizing the space to offer better service to the more than four million passengers they serve annually.

One of these places that needed to be updated was the Rotunda, a dome erected in the decade of 1960 which functions as an intersection between terminals A and B.

This open space offers a bustling atmosphere for travelers, but it lacked a true centerpiece linking the room. Knowing that they needed to introduce an injection of energy into their most prominent space, Spokane Airport Board of Directors Turned to NanoLumens Led Technology.

The Rotunda

The Rotunda is a vaulted hall of 3.437 meters linking Terminal A and B of the airport. Built in the years 60 and impregnated with the aesthetics of the time, the space is supported by 24 exposed concrete beams that rise from the edge of the room to meet in its center, naturally guiding the eyes of travelers to that place.

Although the 'welcome wall' was a specific area that the Board wanted to rejuvenate, so was this empty space in the center of the room., a place of great pressure given the attention that the architecture of the Rotunda directs to that place. With so much space to fill and so many eyes to attract, any suspended element of this place would have to be really huge or able to eclipse its size.

Another concern was that the element was light enough to hang from the ceiling safely.. The Board wanted to complement the original architecture of the space rather than compromise it., a difficult requirement that required a solution that will provide a striking dynamism without distracting from the surrounding style. last, airports are always packed with passengers and staff, and this installation was to be done in the midst of that bustle.

After consulting with the local integrator Evco Sound and Electronics, Spokane Airport Board of Directors determined that large-format LED was the best material for its modernization effort, given its lightweight construction and brightness levels. The manufacturer chosen was NanoLumens.

“The airport has always tried to combine modern design elements with original architecture, maintaining what makes this Rotunda special . So, instead of placing a flat panel rectangle in a messy way, we were looking for an organic solution that would allow the design team to create something unique”, Explains Dan Rossborough, Director of the NanoLumens Special Projects Group.

Designed, developed and installed two Led display solutions, one of which is a welcome wall covering a curved wall of 6 meters propped up by two Led columns on each side, and the other is a Led spider of 8 pieces hanging from the ceiling of the Rotunda.

Travelers passing through Spokane International Airport today encounter a welcome wall with 'rock cubes', that seem to have grown from the architecture itself, and with an authentic chandelier hanging from the top of the Rotunda. Both elements contain more than a dozen Led surfaces but, despite its complexity, the team was able to overcome all obstacles.

“The goal was to provide a high-quality videowall solution that would serve as an aesthetically pleasing form of advertising for all inbound and outbound airport customers.”, comments Bobby Pruitt, Evco Regional Director of Operations. “Nanolumens helped with on-site technical support, which allowed the project team to overcome and deliver the final product”.

As well as the shapes and styles of the Led screens themselves, the content they display is inspired by nature, with mighty streams in the middle of misty forest scenes.

This installation includes two large screens, each of which employs a pixel pitch of 2,5 Mm. The welcome wall contains three different screens, the largest is the curved system of the Nixel series of 1,83 meters wide by 0,5 meters high, located in the center of the installation and which is bordered on both sides by two three-sided Led 'rock cubes'.

Adding the width of the three sides, the screens of the outermost columns measure 2,5 metre, while one of the columns rises 1,5 meters high and the other is slightly higher, with 1,5 metre.

Interior columns measure 0,65 meters wide, but they rise instead to 0,59 meters high. The chandelier contains four curved panels from the Nixel series, that measure 0,36 meters wide and 1,2 meters high. It also contains four four-sided columns, each of which measures almost one meter in circumference and 0,8 meters high.

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