EvenLED™ “Dynamic Wallpaper” Decorates Lebanon’s Future TV Studio

EvenLED™, Martin Professional’s bright system of LED panels for extremely uniform projection, has been utilized to great effect in several TV studios around the world.

One of those studios, Future TV in Lebanon, has implemented the modular system in its newsroom where two vertical columns of five EvenLED panels rise around a video wall to form a unique decorative background.

“Originally, the client wanted simply to change the set of the daily news show from a studio-based set into a newsroom environment set,” says Ali Wazani, Managing Director of Wazani & Associates, an architectural firm responsible for some of the region’s top television studio designs.

Electronic dynamic wallpaper
“Most of today’s TV stations, international events and productions base their design on a branding and identity brief. It is the exceptional image that we are all striving to achieve,” Wazani explains.

“EvenLED can easily brand large surfaces with dynamic moving backgrounds or generate geometric and non-geometric wall covering patterns - let’s call it electronic dynamic wallpaper.”

EvenLED
DMX controllable and capable of extremely smooth dimming, each EvenLED module consists of evenly spaced and individually controlled 6-watt RGB LEDs. Positioned behind translucent glass in the Future TV newsroom, the EvenLED panels create two decorative pillars of flicker free, color changing light that help to visually stretch the space vertically.

“EvenLED is a member of the new world of LED,” Wazani comments. “It is a very bright, low resolution screen that can easily be installed to cover super large surfaces. The panels are light, easy to install and ship, and 100 panels can easily cover 100 m2 of architecture. In fact, it should really be used on large surfaces in order to reveal its beauty.

“Dynamic graphic designs can only be interpreted for the set on super large self luminous surfaces via LED matrix technology. The 1 x 1 meter size of the EvenLED panel is unique and forms the basic module for such a transformation of information.”

Design evolution
For the Future TV studio Wazani introduced a three-level atrium structure within the closed metal box structure. The ground level housed the main activities: studio and newsroom. The other two levels accommodated ancillary functions such as edit suits, archives and current affairs departments.

“Such a spatial organization made the internal space feel like a small technological village,” Wazani comments. “The materials used were basically steel and glass in different shades and textures. This choice of contemporary materials, coupled with precise LED light technology, enhanced our slick transparent design.”

Wazani & Associates not only design television studios (they have done work for Middle East Broadcasting Center, Arabiya News Channel, and others) but are also involved in the building design industry. “We consider TV sets an experimental design platform for our original architectural work,” Wazani says. “Our experiments evolve according to the evolution of new materials, design strategies and the lighting industry. Whenever there are new technologies in lighting, designers get the chance to produce innovative and creative new designs.”

Supplier of the Martin EvenLED panels to Future TV was Martin Middle East. Ali Wazani has also incorporated the EvenLED panels into a studio design at Al Arabiya News Channel in Dubai.