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[Fukuoka Prefecture] Lighting of "Soyokaze Hall", Tanushimaru Town Cultural-Arts Complex
Fig.1 Lighting for the library.
Brief summary
Fig.2 Lighting for Citizens' Gallery.
Fig.3 Lighting for the hall auditorium.
Fig.4 Lighting for the multipurpose study room.
Fig.5 Light-up of the hall exterior.
Tanushimaru-machi, located about 30 minutes by train from the Japan Railways' Kurume Station , is well known as a town of the legendary Kappa water sprite, and it is said that there are more than 1,500 statues of Kappa throughout the town. The Soyokaze Hall ("Breeze Hall" in English), a Complex Cultural Facility for Tanushimaru-machi, was completed based on the idea of developing a town with a cultured atmosphere.
The facility is composed of the “hall zone”, which provides a place for various kinds of cultural activities, the “library zone”, the “life-long learning zone”, and so on.
Lighting facilities
In regard to the library, the passage from the information corner near the front room to the reading room has a high ceiling. Down lights with 42 W compact fluorescent lamps were placed in the ceiling and spot lights with 35 W ceramic metal halide lamp were imbedded in the side walls to illuminate the ceiling surface to create with lighting a relaxing atmosphere with good color. (Fig. 1)
* The name of the facility was determined to be the Kurume City Tanushimaru Complex Cultural Facility, nick name “Soyokaze Hall”, after Tanushimaru-machi was merged with Kurume City effective February 15, 2005.
- Location: Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture
- Gross floor area: 6281.69 m2
- Structure and size: Reinforced concrete structure, steel structure, steel-reinforced concrete, three stories above the ground
- Design and supervision: NTT Facilities, Inc.
- Construction: Electricity/Nippon Densetu Kogyo Co., Ltd.
- Completion of construction: March 2004
- Materials provided by: Takashi Mimura (Toshiba Lightec Inc.)
Photographs for Fig. 1 through Fig. 5: ©Toshiba Lightec Inc.
*This text is quoted from “Data Sheets of Illumination ” in the journal of IEI-J Vol.89 NO.9 September 2005. This journal article contains an explanation of the lighting facilities as shown in Fig. 2 through Fig. 5.