Assiniboine Park Conservatory - The Leaf Lighting Design 🌿✨

With the ambition to celebrate Canada's cultural diversity, "The Leaf" 🍃 is a newly built botanical sanctuary nestled within Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park. This unique garden attraction tells Canada's cultural stories through the plant world, offering visitors a multi-seasonal journey across four distinct worlds or "biomes," where colors, textures, and fragrances blend into a mesmerizing visual feast 🎨🌺. Within these biomes, dynamic lighting designs cleverly mimic nature's diverse sky phenomena—lunar phases, sunsets, and more 🌙🌇. The scheme employs custom-designed reflectors and remotely installed narrow beams encircling a central diagonal grid structure. LED columns illuminate pedestrian pathways between eco-pavilions, guiding visitors like luminous trails 🛤️💡. The lighting philosophy centers on indirect illumination via tailored metal reflectors, redirecting light into the eco-spaces. The quality mimics natural light, with subtle shifts in color and intensity 🌤️. Moments of dramatic contrast between hard and soft lighting create dynamic tension, enhancing spatial depth 🌫️☀️. Reflectors feature specialized textures to diffuse and scatter light widely, projecting beams to the farthest corners of the space 🌟🔦. Project Name: The Leaf - Assiniboine Park Conservatory Location: Winnipeg, Canada 🍁🌍 Lighting Design: Mulvey & Banani Lighting (Canada) 💡🎨 Architects: KPMB Architects + Architecture 49 + Corbett Architecture (Canada) 🏛️🖌️ Client: Assiniboine Park Conservancy + Corbett Architecture 🤝🌿 Lighting Brands: Salex, Anomet 💡✨ Photography: Osvaldo Sepulveda + Richard Seck 📸🎞️ #LightingDesign #BotanicalArt #CulturalNarrative #EcoExperience 🌿💡✨