Citizen West 10
Project Type
Architecture
Location
Denver, CO
Year
2021
Team
Shears Adkins Rockmore
Collaborating with the client and architect, the Clanton team created a visually enriched space by focusing light on the architectural elements of the project while keeping occupants in mind and providing low-glare lighting.
Citizen West 10th is a 17-story luxury residential tower in the heart of Denver's city center. The materiality and texture palettes throughout the spaces are enhanced through hidden, integrated lighting elements. Illuminated niche shelving in the speakeasy bar, backlit baffles at the entrance canopy, aimable accents to highlight apartment numbers accompanied with recessed steplights in the corridors, and art lighting in the main lobby highlight the architectural beauty of the space.
Citizen West 10th’s active fitness rooms use indirect, glare free lighting to maintain visual comfort and visibility. The yoga room was designed with no direct lighting overhead the workout area and indirect cove lighting above the mirror wall and a low brightness curved linear lensed downlight sits around the perimeter of the room to achieve suitable illumination levels. The large fitness area uses indirect cove lighting as the main source of light, supplemented by semi-specular downlights to reduce glare. In order to meet Denver’s strict U0 policy for outdoor lighting, the terrace lighting includes down directed step lights in planters with bollards along the path to achieve minimum lighting criteria. The outdoor pool deck achieves the minimum footcandle requirements by cleverly integrating cylinder downlights to the trellis patio structure and full cut-off quiet bollards amongst the planters.
