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Shading The Arts

As part of the £12 million Heritage Lottery funded revamp of Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Levolux was appointed to provide its External Skyvane 675 system for a large number of roof lights over gallery spaces where valuable paintings required a high level of protection from sunlight.

a high level of dim-out in addition to light control

In all, 17 separate Skyvane sections, with sizes up to 4.8m x 1.7m, were employed externally above the two refurbished Tee Galleries. The 675 system was chosen for the project as it incorporates interlocking extruded aluminium louvres that are designed to provide a high level of dim-out in addition to light control. This was essential since, in the gallery environment, critical control of lux levels and ultraviolet is required to avoid damage to the exhibits.

the right ambience for public events.

The system has lux sensors strategically placed within the gallery areas which are linked to a Levolux control system that automatically moves the slats so the light entering the galleries is precisely regulated. A manual override allows the slats to be set to any required position, which means that they may be closed at night or regulated to create the right ambience for public events.

An added consideration was the age of the roof lights which, although not historically old, meant the standard of the system bracketry had to be redesigned to suit. Internally the system is screened by feature panels of stained glass beneath the roof lights at ceiling level.

"Went like clockwork"

Mario Rackham, construction manager for building contractor R G Carter, comments: “Levolux was a good company to work with and things were on site when they should have been so it went like clockwork with no problems at all. It seems to be a good product and works well.”

 

Architect:	Purcell Miller Tritton Architects
Products used:	Skyvane