Penn Station

Simply Illuminating Transit Spaces.

This collaborative vision the between Apogee and IPS includes the redesign of the 32nd Street Penn Station entrance, with a focus on creating a luminous ceiling to be installed over the escalators. IPS played a crucial role in this project by providing Engineering & Design resources to develop and optimize this unique ceiling concept for one-off production. Our involvement included reviewing technical documentation, understanding manufacturing preferences, and conducting site reviews. IPS was able to brainstorm an architectural enclosure that aligns with the design intent, review the electronic stack, and generate detailed CAD drawings for submission. This project's primary goal was to achieve a clear understanding of constraints and deliverables, ultimately realizing the envisioned illuminated ceiling from prototype to final install.

client

Apogee Lighting

Link

apogeelighting.com/transit-infrastructure

Industry

Government-DOD

Expertise

Collaborative Partners

Industrial Design

Multidisciplinary

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Key Challenges

Architecture Meets Design.

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Great effort was taken to capture both the desired architectural design details and exceed the structural safety factors, ingress requirements and deliver a detailed design that was easy to assemble and maintain. The linear "orthogon" fixtures were required to have visually seamless diffusers. With a structure of this size, thermal and humidity expansion necessitates seems so we developed a proprietary method of hiding the overlapping diffuser seems to prevent shadowing or light leak.

The triangular diffuser panels for the "light scape" fixtures are so large that they exceed both the specified roll width for Alanod Mirro 20 as set by the architects and the manufacturer's laser cutter bed size. They were formed from custom finished stainless steel to match the surrounding Alanod finishes. All internal structures of the 'Light scape" fixtures were specifically designed to prevent cast shadows and allow for maintenance access after installation. All components were optimized for manufacturing the complete assembly is composed of geometric patterns of 18 antique subassemblies and 70 custom parts forming a structure of over 12,000 parts.

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Our Process

Our process involved systematic ideation, creative brainstorming, and numerous CAD configurations in order to successfully align with the vision of the architects and client to produce solutions that met both safety and structural industry standards.

Each component was scrutinized for structural robustness with attention to assembly approach from the very start. Multiple assembly approach revisions, detailed CAD drawings, and specification documents helped to streamline this lighting concept framework in order to allow first prototype sample section to be built for testing and validation.