GARDEN CONSERVATORY

Aug 17, 2023

GARDEN CONSERVATORY

Seoul, South Korea
Artificial Lighting

Client: Hyundai Department Store
Architect: Casper Mueller Kneer
Completion year: 2021
Images: Roh Space

The architects designed this indoor garden room on the top floor of the Hyundai Mokdong Department Store as a contemporary interpretation of the traditional green house, extending the external roof garden into the indoors. It is a space without fixed programme inviting customers and local residents to relax while bearing flexibility for potential future events. A series of green islands with lush planting are scattered around the space providing a calming and immersive experience. The feeling of sitting inside a greenhouse is enhanced by the back-lit pitched roof. Light levels and light quality for the green islands were carefully considered and selected to apply a biophilic design idea with additional focussed plant-friendly LED lights above the planting.

LIT Award 2021: Winner in Horticultural Lighting

The architects designed this indoor garden room on the top floor of the Hyundai Mokdong Department Store as a contemporary interpretation of the traditional green house, extending the external roof garden into the indoors. It is a space without fixed programme inviting customers and local residents to relax while bearing flexibility for potential future events. A series of green islands with lush planting are scattered around the space providing a calming and immersive experience. The feeling of sitting inside a greenhouse is enhanced by the back-lit pitched roof. Light levels and light quality for the green islands were carefully considered and selected to apply a biophilic design idea with additional focussed plant-friendly LED lights above the planting.

LIT Award 2021: Winner in Horticultural Lighting

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CHANGZHOU CULTURE PLAZA

Apr 18, 2023

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CHANGZHOU CULTURE PLAZA

Changzhou, China
Exterior & Landscape Lighting

Client: Changzhou Jinling Investment and
Construction Co., Ltd.
Architect: gmp International
Landscape architect: WES
Completion year: 2020
Images: Schran images

The Changzhou Culture Plaza comprises various museums, a library and service facilities. In addition, numerous shops and restaurants in the on the lower level are directly connected to the cultural spaces above. The six pavilions cantilever in large arcs and open upon covered public space on the ground floor. A water course running diagonally through the site links all the modules and acts as a source of natural lighting for the basement facilities.

The pavilions’ functions vary significantly but they form a visual whole from the outside. This is underlined by the façade lighting realized from high poles surrounding the complex. Along the riverside promenade the lighting of the water features as well as of trees, sculptures, benches and handrails aims for a high-level integration. General lighting of streets and pedestrian areas is implemented with poles again, emphasizing spatial axes with higher poles and entrance areas with lower ones.

LIT Awards 2021: Winners in Exterior Architectural Illumination
IES Illumination Awards 2021: Merit Award
FX Award 2021: shortlisted

Front view of the Changzhou Culture Plaza at night, with striking linear façade lighting that emphasizes the building's symmetrical, geometric design

Night view of the Changzhou Culture Plaza, featuring illuminated geometric architecture with lit pathways and a modern water feature

Night view, featuring striking horizontal façade lighting that highlights the building's unique geometric design, reflected in the nearby water

erial view of the Changzhou Culture Plaza at dusk, showcasing its illuminated geometric design and surrounding public spaces

The Changzhou Culture Plaza comprises various museums, a library and service facilities. In addition, numerous shops and restaurants in the on the lower level are directly connected to the cultural spaces above. The six pavilions cantilever in large arcs and open upon covered public space on the ground floor. A water course running diagonally through the site links all the modules and acts as a source of natural lighting for the basement facilities.

The pavilions’ functions vary significantly but they form a visual whole from the outside. This is underlined by the façade lighting realized from high poles surrounding the complex. Along the riverside promenade the lighting of the water features as well as of trees, sculptures, benches and handrails aims for a high-level integration. General lighting of streets and pedestrian areas is implemented with poles again, emphasizing spatial axes with higher poles and entrance areas with lower ones.

LIT Awards 2021: Winners in Exterior Architectural Illumination
IES Illumination Awards 2021: Merit Award
FX Award 2021: shortlisted

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BAUHAUS MUSEUM DESSAU

Apr 16, 2023

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BAUHAUS MUSEUM DESSAU

Dessau, Germany
Artificial Lighting

Client: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 
Architect: addenda architects
Completion year: 2019 
Images: Zumtobel, Faruk Pinjo 

The lighting design creates a serial, industrial, flexible linear basic structure in the area of the ceiling with a classic lighting strip system, which allows for intake of a wide variety of lighting components as well as electrical components. The minimization of the stylistic devices of lighting technology puts emphasis on the space and forms the stage for the manifold use of the newly created Bauhaus space. The general light works with the democratic-diffused light. The exhibition design in the collection area works in the staged light-directed light.

The ground floor with the temporary exhibition aims at opening up technically and spatially. The staging of art gives the viewer space to classify the object in a local context. The visual relationship with the city and the park is integrated into the presentation. The Bauhaus is not just building and art history but is calibrated in the now.

LIT Awards 2021: Honorable Mention

The lighting design creates a serial, industrial, flexible linear basic structure in the area of the ceiling with a classic lighting strip system, which allows for intake of a wide variety of lighting components as well as electrical components. The minimization of the stylistic devices of lighting technology puts emphasis on the space and forms the stage for the manifold use of the newly created Bauhaus space. The general light works with the democratic-diffused light. The exhibition design in the collection area works in the staged light-directed light.

The ground floor with the temporary exhibition aims at opening up technically and spatially. The staging of art gives the viewer space to classify the object in a local context. The visual relationship with the city and the park is integrated into the presentation. The Bauhaus is not just building and art history but is calibrated in the now.

LIT Awards 2021: Honorable Mention

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