| Lyna Mohamad |
HAJI Ahmad Nizam bin PD Haji Abd Wahab, Principal Architect at OWMP International Architects and Planners at a press conference recently announced their collaboration with Singapore-based lighting design firm, Socialight Creative Lighting Studio.
Also present at the event was Socialight regional manager Clarence Lim.
Following four months of discussions, OWMP and Socialight agreed to go into a collaboration to coincide with and commemorate OWMP International’s 10th anniversary, further embedding its drive to branch out in providing the best services to its clients, by associating itself with other highly-qualified consultants through joint ventures.
Socialight Director Rohan Abdullah noted that Brunei is home to a number of beautiful buildings and parks, but amenities can be made more aesthetically enticing at night to draw more people out from their homes and spend time in public during the evenings.
“This is partly down to lighting, for example the Eco Corridor Park has this most beautiful ambience, but unfortunately people are not frequenting it too much at night due to the lighting,” he said.
He added that based on the company’s observations, Brunei Darussalam can be considered to be one of the more affluent countries in Southeast Asia, however good lighting design and practices in architecture have not really gained traction here.
Socialight’s methods and ideologies centre on design lighting which evokes human emotions and supports the human visual needs.
The firm has extensive experience in designing lighting for projects of various types and scale within Asia, and also has a diverse client profile.
“Most of the lighting works in Brunei at this point seems to be based on three or four high-powered lights shining on a particular building, to show that there is a building there,” said Rohan.
“Lighting is also an important communication tool which can communicate with the inhabitants of the cities,” OWMP International principal architect Haji Ahmad Nizam added.
“This is why we have gone into this collaboration with Socialight.
“We have a lot of landmark buildings such as the PMO office, and we welcome their expertise in bringing out the beauty of such buildings. During the day the architecture looks good, but from the lighting aspect, if it was equipped with sophisticated lighting and design, the building will draw so much more attention,” Haji Ahmad Nizam said.
“We are embarking on this new journey and we would like to implement this in all our projects, to educate and make people understand about good lighting and how it can benefit the country, end users and owners of buildings, among others.”
He added that one of the first projects which Socialight will be working on Brunei is the AMBD project, a landmark collaboration paving the way for more of the company’s involvement in future developments.
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