| Projects: Community |
Brecksville Public Library A victim of the torrential rains and subsequent flooding during the summer of 2006, Tec Inc. was contracted to provide lighting design services as part of the extensive renovation of this 15-year-old branch library. The original lighting design struggled to provide adequate illumination for the stacks and general area. The skylights at the top of the gable and the perimeter up lights and soffit down lights did not offer enough punch to provide adequate indirect illumination for the book stacks. Tec’s solution was to suspend linear, direct indirect fluorescent luminaries below the bottom chord of the scissors truss. The small cross sectional area of the luminaries had minimal visual impact on the space, however the high output T5 fluorescent lamps greatly improved the illumination of the ceiling, celebrated the architecture of the space, while increasing the vertical illumination on the book stacks. |
