SGM and DAS equips Yafour Hotel
Published: MEA
SYRIA: SGM production and architectural lighting have been used throughout the new Yafour Hotel and Resort in Syria. Its banquet room has also received a DAS Audio sound system.
The audio side of the installation was handled by Hawa Audio Design, installing the banquet room with eight DAS DS-115A active speakers alongside two DS-115 boxes, four DS-112 passive speakers and two Sub-18As for low-end. Power for the passive speakers comes from two H-1500 amplifiers plus an H-2200.
Aside from DAS, Hawa used a pair of Yamaha C 215V club speakers, an MG 166CX-USB mixing desk and two of the manufacturer’s Q 2031B processors. Ceiling speakers and a PA/VA system came from TOA, while Wharfedale provided the equaliser. A range of microphones and headphones from Beyerdynamic were also supplied, plus projectors from Sony.
Jano For Lighting was used to supply the lighting side of the hotel after winning a competitive tender fiercely contested between many distributors in Syria and Lebanon. The company’s owner and lighting designer, Ammar Jano, knew that the white marble façade of the six-storey building would be a perfect projection surface for SGM’s IP55-rated Palco 5 architectural LED fixture – and that if positioned correctly, it would provide a wash which could be seen from the nearby Damascus-Beirut highway.
In total 18 Palco 5s were mounted – either on the ground, or positioned at roof level – to deliver a crossfade colour wash. The Palco 5 RGB has been fitted with the new K2 LED which features 12 4.5W (Blue), 24 4.5W (Green) and 13 4.5W (Red) LEDs.
Mr Jano, who has been working with SGM products for almost a decade, then turned his attention to the banquet room, set up to host 500 people for various formal occasions, such as wedding receptions, conferences and special meetings.
Mr Jano specified 12 fully-featured Idea Spot 575 conventional spots and 10 Idea LED 300 moving heads, containing 108 3W high power LEDs, with 100,000 hours lamp life. These were balanced with 18 ceiling-mounted Palco 3 (fitted with 25-degree lenses) colour-changing fixtures.
The designer also used SGM Powerlight 1212D 12-channel dimmer control, Flasher DMX 1.5 strobe and Varismoke II DMX smoke machine to deliver the high-power dancefloor impact.
With the lighting scene sets carefully programmed to make it operable by non-technical staff, the resort operators were reportedly delighted, commending both the impact of delivery and the way in which the fixtures blend into the general aesthetic of the hotel resort.
Owned by Hamsho Group International, the four star hotel, located in the nature reserve region of Yafour, outside Damascus, has been built to a high standard offering a large number of upmarket family facilities and corporate spaces.