The Re:Lit project isn’t just about picking up the phone, it is about developing working relationships and seeing what happens. Architainment have a great support network which front a huge range of lighting. It’s also great to go and see how people operate and be able to talk openly with manufacturers, rather than rush everything into a demo session or short lunch break. This is exactly what we wanted to achieve with the Re:Lit project, meet the people behind the scenes and talk freely. Architainment have a huge technical knowledge of dynamic controls, RGB systems and making what can be extremely complicated, simple.

In our afternoon at Architainment we saw the construction of one of our latest projects, exciting future products which aren’t yet released and historical technological demonstrations. You can’t ask for more? Pictures are a thousand works, but we’ve added a description to help you along!

Phil Grice, the technical guru at Architainment, has been building us here at Michael Grubb Studio a series of enclosures for a project in Streatham. We are connecting a series of buildings along the high street together via the internet, meaning we can control and animate a whole high street from the web on a daily basis. The scheme is currently being installed and phase 1 will complete in May 2014.

Here is the enclosure in production, the best thing for us using Architainment is the service which combines a series of needs into one deliverable for the end user. Using Architainment means that all this equipment is sealed in one enclosure, rather than arriving in a series of parts which hurriedly get installed in to buildings.

We were then shown some of the items which may be of use to the Re:Lit Project. This should probably be in a museum: LED cove lighting from 2006. This is exactly what the Re:Lit Project is interested in, LED products which are out of date in current specification, but still have a fantastic use.

Lee Shields even managed to find a power supply source for the luminaire, which is becoming harder as technologies develop.

  A quick look around the warehouse and we had a chat about other interesting products and lights.

A massive thank you to Architainment for inviting us around and donating to the Re:Lit project. We’ll update you on what donated and how we will use it in a future post.