| Client | Mount Faber Leisure Group |
|---|---|
| Site | Faber Peak, Mount Faber station of the Singapore Cable Car |
| Product | Grid Series transparent LED screen |
| Size | 4 m wide × 2 m high (eight 1 m × 1 m cabinets) |
| Pixel pitch | P3.91 × 7.82, about 1024 × 256 pixels |
| Placement | Indoors, backing onto the outdoor view |
| Installed | 2024 |
About the site
Mount Faber rises 105 m above sea level. It was first called Telok Blangah Hill and was renamed in 1845 after Charles Edward Faber of the Madras Engineers, who built the first road to its summit. The Singapore Cable Car opened on 15 February 1974, linking Mount Faber with Sentosa. Its Mount Faber station, home to Faber Peak, is the highest station on the line, about 93 m above sea level, with one of Singapore's best-known views over the harbour and Sentosa.
What the client needed
Mount Faber Leisure Group wanted a large, bright display inside Faber Peak that would not block the view visitors come up the hill for. A Grid Series transparent LED screen shows content while keeping the harbour and Sentosa in sight behind it. It shows Faber Peak's promotions, events and cable car information.
The challenge: an old cable car station
Faber Peak is not an ordinary building. It was built as a cable car station, and the floor at screen level is not solid ground. Between the screen position and the ground floor below sits a wooden floor that could not be removed, and that could not take the weight of a support structure.
How we installed it
We punched a small hole through the wooden floor, down to the solid floor below. There we drilled a second hole, sized for the support posts. We filled it with chemical anchor resin, the part that looks like magic, set the posts into it and let it cure. Once the posts were firm, we fixed the structure to the wall as well. The finished structure carries the 4 m × 2 m screen, about 200 kg, and the wooden floor carries none of it.
The result
A 4 m × 2 m transparent screen at the highest station of the Singapore Cable Car, installed without touching the existing wooden floor. Visitors see the content and the view at the same time.
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