• location:
    Tbilisi, Georgia
  • Architecture:
    UNStudio
  • Facade consultant:
    Priedemann
  • In collaboration with:
    Domus Aluminium
  • In collaboration with:
    Lighting Design Collective

TBC Forum

TBC Forum by UNStudio is a financial centre under construction in the hills above Tbilisi, Georgia, that aims to be a more positive working environment than traditional bank headquarters.

One of the features of the media light on this facade is the connection with online Big Data. Thanks to a finely tuned system, the colors can change depending on the data received, for example, the results of sports matches, or, because it is a bank, financial data from currency exchanges.

The facade of the building is very technological and complex. Even the ceramic exterior sunscreen panels are made in Germany individually for our luminaires. The technical specifications with the grooves for our lamps, cables, fasteners, and taps were worked out to the smallest detail. An additional difficulty is that most of the sun protection panels are radial and of three different radii.

All lighting equipment for our projects is from our Expolight brand. We develop them specifically for the project, taking into account all possible requirements. And even with partners around the world, we do all the most important things in Ukraine, namely engineering, assembly, and testing in our laboratory. Only after many stages of checks and tests do we send our products for installation in different parts of the world.

 

For this project, we have developed luminaires that have no analogues in the world. They are designed specifically for the project, starting with boards and LEDs, profiles and connectors. They are based on a new control protocol, with new video cards, firmware, which gives an incredible data transfer rate and a frame rate of 60 fps. 

The facade of the building is very technologically advanced and complex, so even the ceramic exterior sun protection panels are made in Germany individually for our lamps. For them, we have thought through and prescribed a technical specification with grooves for our lamps, cables, fasteners, and taps to the smallest detail.

We had to make rigid radial media strips with a huge resolution. No one had ever made such strips before - all such media luminaires do not have clear pixel and pitch parameters. We have thought through and developed the types of diodes, their pitch, chips, and even the software to the last detail! 

We made unique radial lamps of three different radii, worked out everything for them: connectors, fixing method, thought through all the elements to the last detail. By the way, these lamps are magnetized, so they can be easily attached to a special niche on the facade, so if necessary, they can be removed without any special tools. At the same time, even a very strong wind will not be able to tear these lamps off.