AAMI Park LED Lighting

It was with great pride that Rachel and I stood beside the Premier of Victoria John Brumby, Minister for Major Projects Tim Pallas and Sue Nattrass AO for the launch of the LED lighting scheme for AAMI Park, designed by Electrolight.

The project represents the culmination of more than 2 year’s work from the time that Electrolight won the competition to design an artistic feature lighting scheme for the stadium.  Such a scheme has not been realised in Australia before – we believe it is actually a world first in stadium design.

About the scheme: there are 1544 LED fixtures, one attached to each of the ‘nodes’ that comprise the facade design.  Each fixture contains red, green and blue LED lamps which are themselves individually controlled by a central system in a similar manner to that of a TV screen.  The thing that makes this project so special is that it is infinitely adaptable, a blank canvas for whatever content can be dreamed.

For the opening, the content (the actual light show programmed onto the LEDs) was designed by Alexander Knox (with input from Bruce Ramus).  The content will regularly change – for example a specifically designed light show will play when Melbourne Victory are playing, another for the Storm etc.

And does it look any good?  We think so – check it out…

So many people to thank – the wonderful, talented team at Electrolight led by Rachel Burke, John Ford, MPV, Bruce Ramus, Cox,  Joe Casamento from Lightmoves, Grocon, Bruce Myles, MOPT and Sue Nattrass for having the vision to choose our scheme at competition stage.