Interior, amenity and facade lighting for high-rise towers across the UAE, designed, supplied and installed by AL SHOLA ALMODEA.
Tower lighting in the UAE
From across the city a tower is an outline. From the approach road it is an elevation with a top and a base. From the pavement it is a door, a lobby and a lift. Most schemes are designed for the first and judged on the third.
What separates high-rise work from every other sector is not height. It is repetition. One apartment type is drawn once and built on every floor it appears on, so a merely acceptable downlight spacing becomes a stack of merely acceptable ceilings. On a tower the mock-up unit is the cheapest decision on the job.
Repetition also decides how fittings are bought. White LEDs vary between production runs, and two apartments on the same corridor lit from different batches will not match. Buy the whole requirement as one batch, and the spares with it.
Access after handover is the other constraint only towers have. Anything above the podium means a permit, a booked service lift and often a rope team, so a lamp change is an event rather than a task. Changes get deferred until several have failed together, which is when a run starts to look neglected. Maintenance access is designed with the scheme, or not at all.
Then the mixed-use stack. A single tower can carry a hotel lobby running twenty-four hours, serviced apartments occupied unpredictably, an amenity floor peaking early and late, and a retail podium on mall hours. Circuiting and scenes that follow the uses rather than the floors keep the running cost sensible, and that is wiring, decided at design stage.
Some tower commissions are the elevation and nothing else; some are the whole interior with the elevation belonging to another contractor.
We work across all seven emirates from a showroom in Industrial Area 7, Sharjah, with most high-rise work in Dubai.
The work
A hotel lobby, a restaurant, an office floor, a kids’ room and a stack of serviced apartments, all served by the same risers.
A film-studio brand in the public rooms and people asleep on the floors above. Lobby, guest rooms and serviced residences.
A residents gym with a mirror wall facing a glass wall, and the one-bedroom unit that repeats up the building.
Arrival, guest rooms and suites, specified around who reaches a fitting once the rooms are sold. The hotel half of the Paramount development.
Continuous warm runs on the vertical corners and the crown. The elevation was the entire brief, so the full story sits under facade lighting.
Every balcony front on the tower is a curve, and linear profile is manufactured straight. The work here was the elevation alone, so the full story sits under facade lighting.
Perforated screens on the podium of a waqf tower in Al Khan. There was no interior package, so the full story sits under facade lighting.
Tower lighting
On a tower the useful first question is not the fitting but the count: how many of each room type, on how many floors, and how they will be reached in five years. Design, supply and installation across all seven emirates, with a 5-year warranty on the fittings we supply. Call +971 6 572 3204 or message us on WhatsApp.