New Four-Star Yafour Hotel Comes Alive With SGM

Owned by Hamsho Group International, the four star Yafour Hotel and Resort, located in the nature reserve region of Yafour, outside Damascus, Syria, offers ring a large number of upmarket family facilities and corporate spaces -- with Jano For Lighting supplying a technical infrastructure to match.

The company's owner (and lighting designer), Ammar Jano decided knew that the white marble façade of the six-story building would be a perfect projection surface for SGM's IP55-rated Palco 5 architectural LED fixture.

The Palco 5 RGB has been fitted with the new K2 LED, which, the company says, is able to maintain remarkably even luminosity from twelve 4.5W (Blue), twenty-four 4.5W (Green) and thirteen 4.5W (Red) LEDs -- with low energy consumption and interchangeable lens.

In total, 18 Palco 5s were mounted -- either on the ground, or positioned at roof level -- to deliver a stunning crossfade color wash.

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.

Jano specified 12 SGM IDEA Spot 575 conventional spots and ten Idea LED 300 moving heads, containing one hundred eight 3W LEDs. The company says these units offer excellent color mixing and optional choice of lenses (with a standard 39.5° beam angle).

These were balanced with 18 ceiling-mounted Palco 3 (fitted with 25° lens) color-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. "This combination of amazing SGM fixtures produced optimum effect," he says.