Fromeside - Medium Secure Services Water Feature and Decorative Surfaces - Kay Aplin

Final Designs

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Draft Designs

Kay and Jeremy Lord (lighting artist) have been working together to produce designs for a water feature and 2-dimensional sculptures enhanced with integral lighting for 3 of the internal viewing courtyards.

Courtyard 2

This courtyard is overlooked by the café area, and includes a water feature, enhanced with integral lighting as well as some extra lighting pieces, situated around the garden.

Water Feature

This design stands about 1 metre tall and allows water to flow continually, cascading down it in 2 stages into a large bowl at its base. The surface of the fountain is animated with relief shapes in the form of vertical ripples and hemispheres. The colour scheme for the water feature is a range of watery blue glazes. Within the fabric of the bowl, and at its rim, are small LEDs which will illuminate the surface colours and shapes on the bowl from under the water as well as bring out the rippling effects of the water. LEDs will also be fitted into crevices on the main body of the fountain to throw light onto the surface and, once triggered by a time switch, will illuminate the piece after dark.

Combining both rich surface textures, soothing colours, lights and flowing water, this water feature will introduce a vibrant focus to the café area both by day and night.

The water feature will be a concrete structure faced with ceramic sections, sitting on a raised pedestal, which will contain the water reservoir, on a paved area. Service users will be involved in making the relief hemispheres and other pieces from simple plaster press moulds.

Lighting columns

Jeremy Lord has designed a series of light columns, made of cast acrylic polycarbonate, to be dotted around the courtyard amongst the planting to animate the space. The columns contain slowly changing coloured light and will be of various heights. The colour changes are influenced by environmental factors, which may include sound levels in the café and movement in the outdoor area opposite and could also be influenced by a palettes related to the seasons.

Courtyard 3

This small space is opposite the café courtyard and the scheme is to decorate one wall with a series of 5 rectangular ceramic relief pieces, approximately 2 m high and 70 cm wide. The pieces have the same colours, wavy lines and hemispheres as the water feature and visually link the 2 spaces. Within each piece there are cavities housing LEDs so that they will take on a different aspect at night. These lights will be less bright than the waterproof LEDs in the fountain and will be coloured blue and white. As the lights are slightly hidden within the cavity spaces, they will create a feeling of energy radiating outwards. The panels will also be illuminated by low intensity lights from the sides to enhance the different profiles and surface textures without overpowering the more subtle internal lights.

Courtyard 6

This courtyard is a small courtyard overlooked by the Women's Service corridor. The design here will be for a series of panels similar to courtyard 3 with the design worked around the whole space in a continual band so that it can be seen from all sides. The panels will also have lighting incorporated into them so that the area is bright at all times.

Kay and Jeremy are currently working on ideas for designs for this courtyard and they will be available for viewing here in February 2005.

• Entrance glazing
• Room for Reflection
• Courtyard sculptures
• Water feature & decorative surfaces sculpture
• Lighting
• Ash tree project
• Display Cases