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Iris Bar & Restaurant
Iris Bar & Restaurant
Beirut, Lebanon
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Iris Bar & Restaurant
Beirut, Lebanon
In 2011,
legendary open-air Beirut club White has been re-branded and renovated, and the
iconic original location reinvented as cocktail bar and restaurant Iris. The
owners invited .PSLAB to create custom lighting products for the famous rooftop
in central Beirut. In few months, .PSLAB’s product design team created a strong
set of interventions that have given the space a distinctive new mood.
The open air
rooftop bar is unusually narrow and linear, requiring a strong response to
break up the space and respond to the outside environment. The line of the
first area with its major central bar element enhances this linearity, and the
perspective is very specific. On either side of the bar, depth is provided by
the second table third seating areas with their stepped levels. From the
entrance, any lighting solution will be partly concealed as the space recedes
away from the viewer, but a strong insertion into the space will also define
the mood as people enter the bar.
A major
insertion into the first area was made in the form of two lines of black steel
pillars on either side of the bar, which gave a new dynamism to the linearity
of the space and concentrated attention over the bar. A further key definition
was provided by a line of upside-down V-shaped black steel fixtures finished
with white bulbs, suspended over the bar by black cables. The point of the ‘V’
was further defined by the addition of a box to enhance the linear aspect
created by lining up a quantity of these products.
In the second
(table) area, the pillars also defined the space and its different levels.
Projectors were fixed to the pillars to cast a softer light in these areas. The
projector directions were defined by the columns, being fixed on one side so
that they were hidden from the approaching viewer. Dynamism and rhythm was
given as the viewer discovers the projectors slowly as he walks further into
the space.
In the third
(seating) area, the products rose up from the floor in clusters of three on
long black stems, providing intimate down lighting.
These rigid, assertive
insertions are nevertheless sensitive responses to the realities of the space.
The columns give an overall smoothness to the rooftop’s layout, and a sense of
balance. The elegant lines of the products above the bar and the visible bulbs
on all the products also give a warmer aspect to the lighting.
legendary open-air Beirut club White has been re-branded and renovated, and the
iconic original location reinvented as cocktail bar and restaurant Iris. The
owners invited .PSLAB to create custom lighting products for the famous rooftop
in central Beirut. In few months, .PSLAB’s product design team created a strong
set of interventions that have given the space a distinctive new mood.
The open air
rooftop bar is unusually narrow and linear, requiring a strong response to
break up the space and respond to the outside environment. The line of the
first area with its major central bar element enhances this linearity, and the
perspective is very specific. On either side of the bar, depth is provided by
the second table third seating areas with their stepped levels. From the
entrance, any lighting solution will be partly concealed as the space recedes
away from the viewer, but a strong insertion into the space will also define
the mood as people enter the bar.
A major
insertion into the first area was made in the form of two lines of black steel
pillars on either side of the bar, which gave a new dynamism to the linearity
of the space and concentrated attention over the bar. A further key definition
was provided by a line of upside-down V-shaped black steel fixtures finished
with white bulbs, suspended over the bar by black cables. The point of the ‘V’
was further defined by the addition of a box to enhance the linear aspect
created by lining up a quantity of these products.
In the second
(table) area, the pillars also defined the space and its different levels.
Projectors were fixed to the pillars to cast a softer light in these areas. The
projector directions were defined by the columns, being fixed on one side so
that they were hidden from the approaching viewer. Dynamism and rhythm was
given as the viewer discovers the projectors slowly as he walks further into
the space.
In the third
(seating) area, the products rose up from the floor in clusters of three on
long black stems, providing intimate down lighting.
These rigid, assertive
insertions are nevertheless sensitive responses to the realities of the space.
The columns give an overall smoothness to the rooftop’s layout, and a sense of
balance. The elegant lines of the products above the bar and the visible bulbs
on all the products also give a warmer aspect to the lighting.
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