Custom Solution at Holland’s Toversluis

In early 2002 interior designer Cor Lokker of the Dutch firm Set Design contacted Martin’s Dutch distributor, Fairlight, regarding an interesting indoor architectural project in the southern part of the country. Set Design are specialists in interior design for medium-sized projects, designing unique interiors for Dutch television including Holland’s largest television/entertainment production company Endemol.

Cor was asked by customer Lovago BV, a company engaged in several casino-like gambling projects in southwestern Holland, to create a breathtaking new concept for one of their new facilities, Toversluis.

Toversluis is a top rate gambling and amusement palace, a large facility complete with bowling alley, indoor kids playground and restaurant/bar area. Situated in the southwest corner of Holland, Toversluis is a popular getaway venue for Belgians and Germans in addition to the Dutch.

On the Toversluis project Cor worked together with Dutch LD and Martin lighting user Janno Houtman. Janno, Cor and Walter Jaegermann of Fairlight readied a draft for the interior lighting and design that was ultimately approved by Lovago BV.

Color and fiber optic solution
The interior lighting concept called for shades of color from Martin RoboColor Pro 400 and Exterior 200 color changers and includes a unique fiber optic solution.
Some 15 Martin CMY 150 FiberSources are used to illuminate both sidelight and endlight fiber optic in several locations. At the amusement palace entrance, endlight fiber points emerge from the ceiling into 5 cm crystal endings (Svarowsky crystals), which have the effect of dispersing the light. Sidelight fiber was also installed as lining illumination on the steps of the stairs and is used in various other places.

Exterior 200 with lens options
Martin Exterior 200 color changers lay an even wash of color on large projection areas throughout the venue, mainly on the ceiling. The 20 Exteriors are equipped with various lens options; 11 fixtures with 70-90 degree beam shaper lenses; 2 with standard lenses; and 7 with 36-degree Fresnel lenses.

RoboColor Pro 400 alteration
Fairlight altered some of the RoboColor Pro 400 color changers, removing the 33-degree lens and adding two diffusion filters, which gives a very wide beam spread. Thirteen were placed in large "hanging lamps" that serve as color changing decorations around the room.

LightJockey control
The lighting system is controlled via a LightJockey PC-based control package in combination with a Martin 2532 controller. Start up is an easy push of a button and scenes and sequence selection is straightforward.  René van Loon, Fairlight’s LightJockey expert, completed LightJockey programming, together with LD Janno Houtman.

Prior to installing some of the lights, Fairlight had to create special rigging equipment in order to mount the fixtures exactly at the required heights. Fairlight’s Walter Jeagerman comments, “The roof construction of the building gave us quite a bit of problem. Piet Oostendorp and Bjorn Franszmann, two electrical/mechanical engineers here in Fairlight’s technical department did their job so well they were even mentioned in the grand opening speech.”