Prize(s) Winners in Other Lighting Designs / Workplace Lighting Design
Company Belzner Holmes Light Design
Lead Designers Thomas Hollubarsch
Other Designer's names Victoria Coval, Sarinya Jentsch
Client University of Freiburg Cluster of Excellence livMatS @ FIT – Freiburg
Photo Credits Conne van d Grachten
Other Credits Roland Halbe
Completion Date 17.07.2023
Project Location Georges-Köhler-Allee 105 D-79110 Freiburg
Entry DescriptionThe livMatS Biomimetic Shell at the Freiburg Centre for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies is a pioneering research building which is investigating an integrative approach for sustainable architecture.
The requirement for the lighting concept was to create atmospheric lighting for the building that could also be used as technical ambient lighting.
An integrated lighting solution was implemented within the individual wooden cassettes. The linear LED profiles were mounted on the long inner sides of the cassette frames. As the building structure consists of cassettes of different sizes, the lighting had to be planned individually for each cassette. A warm light colour of 3,000°K was chosen to create a pleasant indirect room light.
Planning a sophisticated controls and cabling concept was also crucial to ensure smooth communication between the 250 linear LED luminaires. A central control panel gives users the option of adjusting the light intensity individually.
The holistic lighting design with its precise technical specifications served to ensure the smooth implementation of the final man-machine processes. Thus, the initially simplified coding of the luminaires was translated into augmented reality and used as input for the human manual installation of each individual luminaire in each cassette. The result is an absolutely staged success.
Sustainability ApproachThe building orientation and the daylight strategy comprehends a weather responsive shading system that allows solar gains in winter and therefore sufficient natural lighting throughout the year. Although expansive, a resourceful and minimalist artificial lighting scheme has been proposed, which includes energy efficient LED luminaires and a control system that helps reducing the building carbon footprint yet complying with required functional lighting norms. The indirect atmospheric ambience created, supports also the well-being and comfort of the users in the space, which creates a healthier future work environment.
Company DescriptionFor almost 30 years the company has been consulting and creating lighting projects in fields of architecture, urban planning, stage and exhibition design at home in Germany as well as overseas. We look after private and public buildings of all kinds, renowned museums, themed and special exhibitions, theatres, events, stage technology, churches and other sacred buildings. Our office is also dedicated to urban lighting projects of various sizes such as parks, squares, bridges and urban light master plans.
