Location, year: Beyoğlu, İstanbul 2012
Client: Koç Üniversitesi
Scope: Interior Lighting Design
The first periodical exhibitions at AnaMed meet with art lovers under the name of "Josephine: Photographic Views to the Rural Areas of Anatolia in the 20th Century". The exhibit consists of frames selected from the photographs of 30,000 frames left by Josephine Powell to the Vehbi Koç Foundation.
ANAMED, the Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, aims to raise awareness about the contribution and interaction of Anatolian civilizations to other civilizations & to contribute to the understanding of contemporary Turkey's society and culture by examining the archaeological data. Hosting conferences and symposiums since 2005, ANAMED provides access to library resources and now offers a gallery space to share all of these with visitors. The interior decoration of the foyer and gallery area on the ground floor of the historical building reconsidered, and architectural elements capable of enabling variable-flexible designs were brought together with basic display functions. Now it aims to host periodical exhibitions. To be able to exhibit professional collections, the existing space in the existing building has installed with 45 days of intensive work by installing new elements on the ceilings and walls. The existing lighting system has been renewed and professional lighting design has been developed that handled with lighting control that is compatible with all kinds of exhibitions, flexible, long-lasting, economical, and enables scenarios that can achieve different lighting effects.
The venue has a flexible decoration designed by considering that the periodical exhibitions at ANAMED will belong to different subjects and materials. In the lighting system, lighting products and accessories that could allow different effects considered with the capacity to host various exhibitions skillfully. Rail object mounted as a recessed ceiling and professional rail spots fed from this system used for object lighting. Rail spots have features such as 100% color rendering, filtering, and controllability both on their own and on automation. Accessories installed in front of the spotlight makes it possible to achieve light effects at different angles. In cases where general lighting desired, different scenarios aimed to created with the new technology dimmable LED spots with a dark light reflector feature that recessed to the ceiling. The lighting control system, which provides the opportunity to develop and record scenarios suitable for the creation of different light atmospheres at the same time depending on the exhibition identity, gives flexibility to the place by providing different light effects to each exhibition.
ANAMED, a historical building on Istiklal Street in Istanbul with a renewed exhibition hall, hosted the collection of the world-famous American photographer and collector Josephine Powell's photographs taken in Anatolia for 20 years in 2012 for a period of time.