COSTA SMERALDA

Apr 18, 2023

COSTA SMERALDA

Cruiseship
Artificial Lighting

Architect: Tihany Design, Jeffrey Beers International, Rockwell Group, Dordoni Architetti, Partner Ship Design
Completion year: 2020
Images: Costa

Costa Smeralda is the biggest vessel within the Costa Crociere fleet. Designed by four different interior designers, under the guidance of a Tihany Design masterplan, the ship offers an incredible variety of areas between restaurants, shops and entertainment.

General lighting has been used to bind the various venues together, creating nice transitions from one area to the next. Custom decorative fittings and highlights for architectural features have been introduced to bring out the essence of each area for a greater customer experience. Dim to warm and tuneable white technologies have been widely used to allow for change of atmosphere throughout the day and the night. This brings a strong connection between the inside and the outside, with bright and energetic scenes at daytime and a moodier candlelight effect at nighttime.

Costa Smeralda is the biggest vessel within the Costa Crociere fleet. Designed by four different interior designers, under the guidance of a Tihany Design masterplan, the ship offers an incredible variety of areas between restaurants, shops and entertainment.

General lighting has been used to bind the various venues together, creating nice transitions from one area to the next. Custom decorative fittings and highlights for architectural features have been introduced to bring out the essence of each area for a greater customer experience. Dim to warm and tuneable white technologies have been widely used to allow for change of atmosphere throughout the day and the night. This brings a strong connection between the inside and the outside, with bright and energetic scenes at daytime and a moodier candlelight effect at nighttime.

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BAUHAUS MUSEUM WEIMAR

Apr 16, 2023

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BAUHAUS MUSEUM WEIMAR

Weimar, Germany 
Artificial Lighting

Client: Bauhaus Museum Weimar
Interior Design: Holzer Kobler Architekturen
Completion year: 2019
Images: Radeck Brunecky

This three-storey museum holds the oldest and most unique Bauhaus collection in the world. Over the course of three storeys, this museum takes visitors on a historical journey from the origins of Bauhaus to the present day. The museum emphasizes the cultural heritage of the Bauhaus school and its impact on the present day. The exhibition lighting in this museum has tracks integrated into the ceiling, following its form, and highlights the pieces in the exhibitions with adjustable track heads. This creates a flexible space that can accent different important pieces in various different exhibits over time. The rooms for a sequence of unique and scenic lighting atmospheres.

a view of an exhibition room in the bauhaus museum in weimar. In the foreground is a table with drawings and other paper on it, protected by glass. Behind those, glass exhibition boxes with architectural models of buildings. The room is white with beams across the ceiling. In these beams are tracks with spot track heads in them, aimed at the various pieces being exhibited.

This three-storey museum holds the oldest and most unique Bauhaus collection in the world. Over the course of three storeys, this museum takes visitors on a historical journey from the origins of Bauhaus to the present day. The museum emphasizes the cultural heritage of the Bauhaus school and its impact on the present day. The exhibition lighting in this museum has tracks integrated into the ceiling, following its form, and highlights the pieces in the exhibitions with adjustable track heads. This creates a flexible space that can accent different important pieces in various different exhibits over time. The rooms for a sequence of unique and scenic lighting atmospheres.

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BEETHOVEN HOUSE, BONN

Apr 16, 2023

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BEETHOVEN HOUSE

Bonn, Germany 
Artificial Lighting

Client: Beethoven-Haus Bonn
Architect: Holzer Kobler Architekturen
Completion year: 2019
Images: David Ertl

The Beethoven House in Bonn is the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven in the city center. For the 250th anniversary, the permanent exhibition was reorganized and redesigned. The planning team, consisting of architecture, exhibition design, graphic design, media installations, and lighting design, was selected through a selection process with a holistic approach and implemented the redesign.

The design idea was to perceive the museum as a private house – the house as part of the exhibition and the stories being told. Daylight is reduced using screens, maintaining the view to the outside and anchoring the exhibition in the present. The lighting situation should not be documentary and sober, but rather the room light should complement the exhibition light, creating light islands and zones; making the private visible in the public. The display case lighting system is transferred into room lighting. The fine line in the visible area minimizes the technology and connects room, picture, and graphic lighting.

German Lighting Design Award 2022: shortlisted

The Beethoven House in Bonn is the birthplace of Ludwig van Beethoven in the city center. For the 250th anniversary, the permanent exhibition was reorganized and redesigned. The planning team, consisting of architecture, exhibition design, graphic design, media installations, and lighting design, was selected through a selection process with a holistic approach and implemented the redesign.

The design idea was to perceive the museum as a private house – the house as part of the exhibition and the stories being told. Daylight is reduced using screens, maintaining the view to the outside and anchoring the exhibition in the present. The lighting situation should not be documentary and sober, but rather the room light should complement the exhibition light, creating light islands and zones; making the private visible in the public. The display case lighting system is transferred into room lighting. The fine line in the visible area minimizes the technology and connects room, picture, and graphic lighting.

German Lighting Design Award 2022: shortlisted

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LAKHTA CENTRE

Apr 16, 2023

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LAHKTA CENTRE

St. Petersburg, Russia 
Artificial Lighting

Architect: RMJM
Completion year: 2018
Images: Lakhta Center, press service

The complex’s architectural concept is based on water images: waves, icicles, chopped icebergs, all this is a reminder of the shores of the Baltic. Inspired by the water crystallization process and how ice celebrates light by creating playful effects within its structure, our lighting concept corresponds to the extensive use of glass material throughout the architecture of the Lakhta Center. A holistic lighting approach has been applied by mapping the overall concept and then reducing it to individual elements. Thus, tower, multifunctional complex, entrance arch, podium and landscape area will all narrate one complete story. The volume of the tower is defined by different light intensity tones via combining two main lighting components: frame lighting of interior and edge continuous linear lighting of exterior.

The lighting concept enables the development of different lighting scenes, like every-day scene, mode for evening winter time, special event mode or festival scene, night time scene and others. A special part of the tower lighting was developing detailed concept of aircraft obstruction lights and “bird friendly” lighting and their integration into overall concept.

IES Illumination Awards 2020: Internationale Verdienste
LIT Awards 2020: Gewinner Außenbeleuchtung

The complex’s architectural concept is based on water images: waves, icicles, chopped icebergs, all this is a reminder of the shores of the Baltic. Inspired by the water crystallization process and how ice celebrates light by creating playful effects within its structure, our lighting concept corresponds to the extensive use of glass material throughout the architecture of the Lakhta Center. A holistic lighting approach has been applied by mapping the overall concept and then reducing it to individual elements. Thus, tower, multifunctional complex, entrance arch, podium and landscape area will all narrate one complete story. The volume of the tower is defined by different light intensity tones via combining two main lighting components: frame lighting of interior and edge continuous linear lighting of exterior.

The lighting concept enables the development of different lighting scenes, like every-day scene, mode for evening winter time, special event mode or festival scene, night time scene and others. A special part of the tower lighting was developing detailed concept of aircraft obstruction lights and “bird friendly” lighting and their integration into overall concept.

IES Illumination Awards 2020: Internationale Verdienste
LIT Awards 2020: Gewinner Außenbeleuchtung

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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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