In 2019, Haron Robson was honored with two prestigious Good Design Awards for our groundbreaking projects: the Circadian Rhythm Lighting System and 1 Connell Street. These awards recognise our commitment to innovation and excellence in design. The Circadian Rhythm Lighting System, developed to enhance well-being by aligning with natural body rhythms, and the cutting-edge design of 1 Connell Street both demonstrate our ability to blend creativity, functionality, and impact.
The Circadian Rhythm Lighting system is the result of many years of research that aimed to provide tools to clinicians to trial, track and
use light to improve the health and behaviour of patients in aged care facilities. It comprises lights and programming that deliver varying
light colour and intensities.
The Circadian Rhythm
Design Challenge
In developing light tools that could be used for wellness we analyised the status of current standards and practice in this area and discovered few existed. The system should enable clinicians to tailor lighting conditions in terms of distribution, colour, intensity, time of day and transitions via a system that can be easily configured, is small increment adjustable, reports status and is able to be retro fitted to existing facilities. Settings developed and recorded in trials would be used to measure the effectiveness of lighting as a treatment. Due to number of unknowns a more is more approach was applied. We developed a simple down light and accompanying wall light fitted with addressable controllable high output LEDs and smart drivers. We used proprietary components where possible. The lights would be located to provide very high levels of light on patients, and the upper lights in the wall light provide indirect lighting to the rooms surfaces. Varying the interrelationship of direct and reflected light is a key factor in wellness treatments. We sourced unique light drivers that generate a light spectrum from 1800K to 16500K, 100% variable intensity and colour adjustbake in 100K colour temp steps. A variety of colours and trims. The elements of the circadian rhythm lighting system are: light form / light location / light output ( up to 2000lux can be generated) / light colour ( 1800K to 16500K is a very large colour range) / daylight control interfaces / system recipes and all are developed.