Marcus Mariota Sports Performance Center at the University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon
United States

Recognizing a limited connection to the outdoors, the design draws a virtual connection using tunable white LED technology and coordinated networked controls to discreetly shift the color temperature within the space to follow cues taken from the ever-changing sky. Starting with warm tones in the morning, color shifts throughout the facility automatically to cooler tones in the day and cycles back to warm tones in the evening hours. Fitting within an existing building and driven by an immovable construction schedule, the majority of light fixtures implement DMX communication protocol allowing them to be quickly connected in the field and controlled individually independent of final control intent.