NEW YORK—Lutron Electronics has been a leader in the lighting control industry for almost six decades. Now, as the company celebrates its new Commercial Experience Center in Manhattan, it is once again striving to bring fresh ideas to the lighting and design landscape.

“Experience” is the operative word at the flagship center, located just off Fifth Avenue at 3 E. 28th Street in New York’s lively NoMad neighborhood. At the core of the center is the Lutron HXL approach, a broad philosophy of human centric lighting that deftly employs four elements of lighting design—natural light, quality light, connection to the outdoors, and adaptive and personalized control—to help people be, work, and feel their best.

The new center offers architects, designers, contractors, developers, and building owners an inclusive vision of Lutron lighting and control capabilities.

It is “designed with the customer journey in mind,” says Executive Vice President Scott Hanna.

“The new center provides an immersive experience that reveals how lighting and controls can impact different space types and people’s sense of well-being. It gives them opportunities to enhance and foster the human experience.”

The center is designed to inspire and encourage clients and customers to expand the ways they think about lighting design—not just as illumination, but as an amenity for acquiring and retaining talent, attracting guests, and stimulating students and educators.

Customers are invited to experience Lutron’s recent acquisitions: Ketra – dynamic smart lighting that mimics daylight indoors – and Limelight smart exterior lighting control.

In addition, the center showcases the company’s best-in-class solutions, including a Quantum system with integrated Sivoia QS, as well as contract roller shades, Palladiom keypads, and the myRoom guestroom solution.

Lutron Co-President Ramin Mehrganpour observes that the center puts more of Lutron’s growing portfolio of solutions on display. “We can now highlight more of our comprehensive, innovative product offering,” he says.

The center’s footprint is appropriately spacious: at 5,500 square feet, it’s almost twice the size of Lutron’s original Penn Plaza location. Moreover, being in NoMad, just south of Midtown, puts the company squarely in the middle of New York’s most important tech and design-oriented neighborhood, convenient to a number of architecture, design, and Silicon Alley firms.

Other notable aspects of the center include:

Solutions for a wide variety of building types:

Lutron controls offer distinct benefits to workplace environments, hotels, and educational institutions – all of which are specifically addressed at the new center. Indeed, the space incorporates a complete model hotel suite employing Lutron’s myRoom guestroom control system.

Dedicated meeting and training spaces for Lutron clients and customers:

With New York being a destination city and a hub for international specifiers, Hanna expects a high percentage of visitors to come from outside the United States.

A broad landscape of Lutron products:

Lutron solutions on display include Ketra, Limelight, myRoom, T-Series tunable white, the Quantum lighting control and energy management system, EcoSystem technology, and Vive wireless controls.

WELL certification:

The center is designed to meet the WELL Building Standard supporting occupant health and wellness in the built environment. WELL dovetails with Lutron’s approach to human centric lighting, Lutron HXL, which promotes comfort, enables enhanced well-being, and fosters engagement.

The New York Commercial Experience Center is available to visit by appointment. Other Lutron Experience Centers are located in Coopersburg, Pa.; Plantation, Fla.; Irvine, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; Toronto, Canada; and London, UK. A Residential Experience Center is located in Midtown Manhattan.

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COOPERSBURG, Pa.—In recent years, human centric lighting (a philosophy describing lighting that creates more comfortable, welcoming, and engaging environments for people) has become a widely discussed talking point in the building industry. But differences of opinion regarding its impact and scope have generated discussion among industry specifiers and end users.

Lutron Electronics, the leader in lighting controls and automated shading solutions, believes human centric lighting should promote comfort, enable enhanced well-being, and foster engagement.

To further those goals, Lutron has created a holistic approach to human centric lighting: Lutron HXL.

The Lutron HXL approach combines four elements of lighting design to allow people to be, work, and feel their best: Quality Light, Natural Light, Connection to the Outdoors, and Adaptive and Personalized control.

The approach recognizes the importance of biophilia, a human connection to nature; incorporates the Internet of Things with smart technology; and allows people to manage their environment with a variety of personalized control. Indeed, the four elements of lighting design focus on different aspects of the human experience:

• Quality light. The impact of quality light can’t be understated. For designers, it can mean the difference between delivering their design intent – such as preserving color or highlighting architectural features – or not. For occupants, it may make the difference between feeling engaged or detached. With tunable white control and high-performance dimming, Lutron quality light technology helps create unforgettable experiences.
• Natural light. Sunlight, of course, is the standard by which light is measured. The HXL approach maximizes daylight with dynamic shading solutions, which let light in while mitigating glare, and brings it indoors with solutions from Ketra, whose technology provides light that seamlessly emulates daylight in interior spaces. Together, the seamless combination of daylight and interior light feels balanced at any time of day.
• Connection to the outdoors. The concept of biophilia, which suggests that humans have an inherent desire to connect with nature, has become a central component of architectural design. The Lutron HXL strategy emphasizes window views and uses shades that mitigate glare to promote this relationship.
• Adaptive and personalized control. The Internet of Things, through automation and connection, is helping to create flexible, dynamic environments that interact with people, support efficiency, and help save energy. Lutron’s approach also leverages smart technology to change spaces for the benefit of the occupants and allows people to shape those spaces with personalized control.

The HXL approach also supports sustainability by helping reduce energy costs and embracing elements of the natural world, and it contributes to design supporting WELL and LEED standards.

Lutron HXL specifics reinforce the innovative design choices that are being made in commercial spaces such as offices, hotels, and college campuses.

Founded in 1961, Lutron Electronics is headquartered in Coopersburg, Pa. The company offers more than 15,000 energy-saving products, sold in more than 100 countries.

Visit lutron.com/HXL for more information.

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