Christie covers Kuwait 360 Mall family entertainment centre
Published: MEA
KUWAIT: Electrosonic designed, supplied, installed and programmed the lighting, digital signage, projection, special effects, audio and show control for the family entertainment centre at the Kuwait 360 Mall.
The ‘Infunity Zone’ features an assortment of rides and a Christie DS+750, 7500 ANSI lumens single-chip DLP SXGA+ projector. Working in combination with GestureTek gesture-controlled tracking technology this fires vertically down onto the floor to enable children to interact with the content of popping balloons and swimming fish.
Elsewhere, the Freeze Club (with its North Pole motif) is aimed at teens with arcades, video games and simulators. An interactive video wall at the entrance features two flexible Christie DHD700 single-chip DLP HD projectors — again working with GestureTek cameras and tracking systems, and outputting 6500 ANSI lumens — allowing young guests to interact with the content, while low-lying fog is generated underneath the video wall itself.
Creating further impact in Infunity, 67 LED fixtures wash the games area, while an entire wall of 18 displays forms an art installation in the middle of the zone’s large atrium. Infunity also features what is believed to be the largest LED wall in Kuwait — a 10mm, 7.68m x 4.8m LED video wall.
Electrosonic has equipped the Freeze Club with 15 LCD digital signage systems to display advertising and information, while a lo-res wall, boasting over 2,000m of LEDs, wraps around the entire room and displays fire, rain, graphics and abstract patterns. A laser system, installed by Electrosonic, recreates the Aurora Borealis on the domed ceiling and is enhanced by smoke effects.
The complex also incorporates a 20 lane Bowl Room (plus separate VIP lanes), which includes 3,500 individual strands of colour-changing fibre in a nine-chandelier array, while the overall installation incorporates an advanced audio solution, with central and local control racks, while centrally-located Medialon servers control digital signage throughout the complex.
Electrosonic’s scope of work in the complex spanned a total of 18 months. Local labour and support was provided by aDawliah.