Morph Rooftop Bar, Kempinski Hangzhou
Responsive lighting installation for Morph Rooftop Bar at Kempinski Hangzhou, using addressable LED control to shape atmosphere across the venue.
Project Details
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Year:2019
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End Client:Kempinski Hangzhou
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Location:Hangzhou, China
Spatial context:Morph Rooftop Bar, Kempinski Hangzhou, ceiling and interior, three zones across a 700 sqm venue
Media layer:Around 2,000 m of addressable LED strip across the ceiling and interior
Software layer:Custom pixel-mapping, content, and control system in TouchDesigner
Refractiv role:Lighting concept, system design, system programming, in collaboration with Deyan Raykov
Operational model:Venue lighting moving between ambient operation and active event conditions
Brief and spatial concept
For Morph Rooftop Bar at Kempinski Hangzhou, the lighting system gave the room a continuous luminous identity across the bar, ceiling, and surrounding interior. The emphasis was on paced movement, soft transitions, and a coherent visual language rather than isolated effects.
Lighting system across ceiling and architecture
Around 2,000 metres of LED strip run through three zones of the 700 sqm venue. Pixel mapping, content, and control were built as one custom system in TouchDesigner, so the lighting behaves as one coordinated composition across the ceiling and the wider interior.
Addressable control at pixel level allows the room to shift in tone, pace, and intensity while keeping one coherent lighting language. The system moves the venue between ambient operation and more active event conditions without breaking the identity of the interior.
Credits
Refractiv in collaboration with Deyan Raykov
Lighting concept, system design, system programming.
Ashley Sutton
Interior design.
Xuan Xu
Project lead.
Photography by Bobie Pando.
