For three days, visitors to Zumtobel's trade fair stand had the opportunity to let themselves be inspired by innovative lighting solutions which gently yet impressively show entire museums as well as individual exhibits in the right light. Curators, technical directors and conservators as well as gallery owners, architects and designers were impressed by products such as ARCOS Tunable White, MICROTOOLS and SUPERSYSTEM.
Energy-efficient LED solutions and new products for patient rooms and clean rooms were among the product highlights presented at the trade-fair stand: the new IMWS medical wall system as well as a number of LED products added to existing luminaire ranges for patient rooms and public spaces were shown for the first time.
The three-floor installation comprises three lighting spaces positioned exactly on top of each other. These rooms are linked with each other by glazed walk-over sight openings illuminated by Zumtobel LED light lines in variable colours.
The ground floor features a black granite slab dotted with STARFLEX light outlets by Zumtobel. Looking down from the first floor, the light points form the starry sky of the antipodes to the Kunsthalle – the sky at the opposite point of the Earth. Looking upwards through an opening in the elliptical chamber on the second floor, visitors can see the (starry) sky above Bremen.
Thus, visitors seem to be standing right in the centre of the Earth between two sections of the sky.
Photos: Harald Rehling
If you have installed free QR reading software on your smart phone, all you need to do is focus your cell phone's camera onto this black-and-white square; you will then be automatically directed to the respective product in Zumtobel's online catalogue.
All information available on the product, such as installation instructions, data sheets and product details, can be conveniently retrieved from the product catalogue. In order to make it really easy to navigate the catalogue using a cell phone as well, the whole online catalogue has been optimised for mobile devices.
Revit data also in the catalogue
3D CAD data are now also available in the online product catalogue. In addition to other CAD data in DWG format (2D/3D), you find the Revit files for a product – if already available for this product range – in the product's downloading section.
» Here you find the Revit CAD data that are presently available and regularly updated.
In 2007, the pavilion, which was already on display in Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York, had been designed by Zaha Hadid for the CHANEL fashion brand. Now CHANEL donated the structure boasting a formal language of continuous fluidity to the Institut du Monde Arabe. In future, the pavilion set up in front of the Institut will be used to host exhibitions by talented artists from Arab countries.
“Zaha Hadid, une architecture” until autumn
The current exhibition of the Pritzker award winning architect will be on show until autumn. “Zaha Hadid, une architecture” displays a variety of projects and research agendas covered by Zaha Hadid Architects in the past years. Zumtobel has designed and provided a lighting solution matching the pavilion's organic look.
Sophisticated illumination
The colour temperature of the DALI-controllable ARCOS LED spotlights installed by Zumtobel can be continuously adjusted within the range between 2700 K and 6500 K, which ensures sophisticated accent lighting of the exhibits.
The lighting concept, which is focussed on individual points emphasising the special qualities of the pavilion's architectural structure, is enhanced by minimalist SUPERSYSTEM LED spots.
Photos: Francois Lacour
• Interviews
According to this issue’s title “How much tradition does the future need?”, architect Odile Decq extensively explains her views on the link between traditional and modern architecture. Roman Delugan and Christian Schrepfer of Delugan Meissl Associated Architects take the IYON spotlight as a basis to inform readers on changes in product design and on the challenges of shop lighting.
• Product highlights
The new LIGHTLIFE also includes product innovations and additions launched in spring 2011,
» which you can also separately download here.
Read LIGHTLIFE 6
Like all other issues, LIGHTLIFE 6 is available
» for download here or can be ordered hereas a print version.
The exhibition, which was divided into several chronological and thematic sections, for the first time presented these rare works, which can usually only be seen by visitors of the famous Paris museums.
In order to illuminate the masterpieces to optimum effect, the Tretyakov Gallery relied on luminaires from the ARCOS range by Zumtobel. Accommodating some 140,000 exhibits, the gallery in Moscow is one of Russia’s largest and most important art collections.
Photos: TRINOVA
Dr. Harald Sommerer, CEO Zumtobel Group, will open the evening with a short welcome address, followed by Kirstin Feireiss from the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, who, as the curator of the Zumtobel Group Award, will in particular highlight the importance of the award for the architectural culture. Stefan Behnisch, renowned architect and chairman of the Group Award jury, will then present the prize-winning projects in detail.
The variety of project approaches presented will make the exhibition a fascinating dialogue on the subjects of efficiency and sustainability, providing exciting perspectives and ideas on urban development and architecture. In addition to the prize-winning projects, eight other distinguished projects will be shown at the Light Forum.
The prize winner in the "Built Environment" category is the project by the TRIPTYQUE architecture firm in São Paulo. Their HARMONIA 57 project presents an environmentally and architecturally trendsetting office and gallery building. The nonprofit Terreform ONE + Terrefuge group of designers from New York City could not fail to impress the jury with its New York City Resource and Mobility project in the "Research & Initiative" category.
If you would like to visit the exhibition, please register in advance by contacting Cornelia Netzer on
phone no. +43 5572-390-1293,
or by e-mail: [email protected]
Duration of exhibition:
4 February - 1 March 2011
Address:
Zumtobel Light Forum
Schweizer Strasse 30
A-6851 Dornbirn
Images: Publication is free if due acknowledgement is made: Zumtobel