The main topics this time around were Office & Communication and Presentation & Retail. The Limbic Lighting model was the perfect tool to present the story of Limbic Lighting by demonstrating different lighting scenarios. Peter Kovacs and Peter Keill introduced our retail range, giving guests the chance to touch and feel the new products.
The latest innovations in the office range, including SEQUENCE, AXON and LIGHT FIELDS Evolution TW, were presented by Manfred Petschulat in combination with the results from the recent office study, showing the vital link between application information and new product development.

The jury is made up of a panel of art experts and enthusiasts who judged a varied selection of works. Most pieces have been specially created for the Amsterdam Light Festival and have never previously been exhibited. The city will be awash with light sculptures, projections and installations by contemporary local and international artists. The boat route, “Water Colors”, will take visitors past artworks along the Amstel and the city’s famous network of canals. The walking route, “Illuminade”, winds through the city center. Light will play a central role throughoutthe city during the festival, as museums and institutions organize light-related activities and treat visitors to some of the latest innovations in the world of light art.

The theme for the festival, ‘A Bright City’, challenges artists to create a tribute to modern Amsterdam. The resulting artworks will present a unique take on contemporary urban life in the Dutch capital. The Austrian lighting solutions partner Zumtobel is acting as a key partner for the realization of central artworks at the Amsterdam Light Festival by providing advice and lighting solutions developed specifically for the event. As well as sponsoring the whole festival, Zumtobel is also helping to realize two major installations: INTREPID, The Paper Boat by Katja Galyuk/City+Light and Re(bi)cycle Dome by Vasili Popov.

“By partnering with the Amsterdam Light Festival, we are fostering our strong engagement with light and art,” says Stefan von Terzi, Marketing Director at Zumtobel. “We are looking forward to taking part in one of the largest light festivals in Europe, supporting artists and designers both with our lighting solutions and our experience.”

Zumtobel to open LightLab in Amsterdam
On 16. January 2015, Zumtobel will officially open a brand new creative design center in the city of Amsterdam. The opening will be accompanied by the first ever exhibition of their renowned Masterpieces Collection, containing unique light sculptures by Zahad Hadid, Olafur Eliasson and Daniel Libeskind. The Masterpieces Collection will be then on show to the public at the well-known Amsterdam Center for Architecture (ARCAM) until the middle of March 2015.

More information about the Amsterdam Light Festival: » http://www.amsterdamlightfestival.com/

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800 people work in the building that needs about half the energy usually required for a comparable conventionally designed building. Daylight sensors and presence detectors in the offices make sure that daylight is supplemented with artificial lighting only when required.

Zumtobel's » environmental product declarations (EPD) documenting a product's environmental impact, and the » eco+ label indicating Zumtobel products that provide special benefits for people and the environment, were major criteria for the client to choose the SLOTLIGHT II, MELLOW LIGHT V and PANOS product ranges.

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This technology allows flexible adjustment to any room situation, catering for users' individual needs. At the same time, tunableWhite enables adaptation to changes associated with different times of day and seasons; as required, the luminaire's light colour ranging between 3000 K and 6000 K can be adjusted to the currently prevailing conditions.

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The German Design Award, the premium prize awarded by the German Design Council, is awarded for the fourth time this year. Awards are granted to high-calibre products and projects as well as their manufacturers and designers, who are pioneers in the German and international design scene. “Being honoured with the German Design Award acknowledges our ambitions to develop products and lighting solutions of superior design quality that provide the user with true added value,” says Stefan von Terzi, Zumtobel Marketing Director. “With LIGHT FIELDS we have managed to develop a product range that combines architectural design and cutting-edge technologies in one lighting solution.” The prizes will be awarded in Frankfurt on 13 February 2015.

An overview of the award-winning products:

LIGHT FIELDS evolution: LED luminaire range for sophisticated lighting projects
The » LIGHT FIELDS evolution LED luminaire range designed by British industrial designer Christopher Redfern from Sottsass Associati combines straightforward design with innovation. Thanks to their uniformly slim-line design, narrow mounting height and high-grade materials, the luminaires blend perfectly into contemporary office interiors. However, LIGHT FIELDS evolution is impressive not only in visual terms but also in terms of technical features: innovative technologies have been incorporated in the various luminaire models. For the recessed and surface-mounted luminaires, Zumtobel has developed the 3Dprotect^® reflector. Its 3D structure protects the LED modules during installation, preventing damage from electrostatic discharge. At the same time, the structure's reflection factor ensures an increase in the luminaire efficiency level. The free-standing, wall-mounted and pendant luminaires are fitted with innovative litePrint^® waveguide technology, so that the light source remains concealed despite the luminaire's minimum height and delicate frame. This means that the high luminance of the individual LED lighting points is resolved perfectly. Thanks to the highly effective micro-pyramidal optic (MPO+), all LIGHT FIELDS evolution models feature optimum glare control and maximum lighting quality at all times in a variety of working situations.

CRAFT: efficient and targeted high-bay LED lighting
The » CRAFT high-bay LED luminaire is the result of a joint development project by Zumtobel and Arup. CRAFT provides high luminous flux levels of up to 28,000 lumens for lighting tasks in industrial areas; innovative lens technology allows for high-precision light control. The luminaire features square and narrow-beam lighting characteristics to perform a variety of lighting tasks; the lighting solution's uniformity and efficiency are significantly improved as the luminous fields do not overlap. A special design feature, the rib structure, ensures cooling and cleaning on account of the airflow, which significantly increases the LED's service life.

SEQUENCE: adaptive, pinpoint task area lighting
The » SEQUENCE LED luminaire offers an optimum combination of direct and indirect lighting and boasts modules than can be individually controlled. Thus, the luminaire meets the various requirements of employees with respect to ideal office lighting as well as the need for customisation to the utmost degree. SEQUENCE has been designed as a pendant and surface-mounted luminaire and consists of 8 or 14 module units arranged alongside each other, each with 6 x 3 centrally arranged LED light points. Thanks to an opal cover frame, the 24 outer LEDs provide diffuse ambient light as well as an altogether softer light distribution. Besides this exceptional performance feature, SEQUENCE, thanks to its flat aluminium housing, boasts an especially slim shape that blends perfectly into any interior design. The luminaire's sophisticated design – all its electronic components are almost invisibly enclosed in a slightly raised area on the top of the luminaire unit – ensures a delicate appearance.

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The conference also incorporated some new elements that were specially designed for the Istanbul event such as an afternoon of round table discussions on cutting-edge topics and themes currently affecting the field of professional practice, market structures and lighting applications. This concept encouraged interaction between different market players.

 

The lighting system of the building, which was awarded the ÖGNI Gold environmental certification, essentially consists of customised LED light lines, all of them linked to daylight sensors and presence detectors.

All workstations are positioned along spacious window surfaces and accordingly ensure an optimum combination of daylight and artificial lighting. The luminaires, which in spite of their flush fitting appearance are surface-mounted, provide for uniform, glare-free light at the workstations.

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The consistent further development of Zumtobel products is based on user studies investigating the effects of light and perceived lighting quality. Lighting solutions by Zumtobel create working conditions that make people feel good, thus motivating them and helping them concentrate on doing their job.

By using innovative technologies and control systems, energy and maintenance costs can be reduced. To learn how to do this, please refer to our new application brochure.

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SEQUENCE is available in a warm (3000 K) and intermediate (4000 K) colour temperature. The luminaire is supplied in lengths of 1200 mm (8 LED modules) or 2100 mm (14 LED modules). With up to 100 lm/W at a luminous flux of up to 9000 lm, SEQUENCE facilitates economically efficient working in offices.

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Based on the findings of the study, it is possible for the very first time to define lighting quality in offices with a focus on users, beyond conformity with relevant standards. The first analyses of the study show the office employees' preferences and the factors that enhance their sense of well-being.

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"We are very pleased about the Nobel Prize Committee's decision. In this way, the importance of semiconductor physics for lighting has been honoured appropriately. Only the blue LED has made LED technology relevant for general lighting, for applications beyond display indicators. All LED applications we see in contemporary lighting industry are based on this invention.

Today, LEDs are already widely spread in the market. Within the Zumtobel Group, the LED segment meanwhile accounts for 43% of consolidated revenues, at unbridled dynamic growth. At the lab, LEDs are already achieving efficiency levels of up to 200 lumens per watt – which is twice the efficiency of conventional fluorescent lamps. In terms of energy efficiency, the potential of LEDs in many application areas is far from being exhausted. In aesthetic terms, too, the LED provides huge benefits. It is "every architect's dream": compact, configurable in shape and design as required, durable and sturdy, dimmable and controllable, and it allows to create the most varied lighting scenes," explains Klaus Vamberszky, Executive Vice President Zumtobel Group Technology, on the occasion of the announcement of this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Like every year, the prize awarding ceremony will take place on 10 December. Congratulations from Zumtobel to the winners!

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On 22 September 2014, jury chairman Winy Maas announced the prize-winning projects of the fourth Zumtobel Group Award, which was once again curated by the Berlin Aedes Architecure Forum. The Zumtobel Group had made a call for the Zumtobel Group Award promoting innovation in terms of sustainability and quality of life in the built environment in three categories: Applied Innovations, Buildings, and Urban Developments & Initiatives. From a total of 356 projects submitted, the jury had nominated 15 projects.

“The decision to select the winner was a very close one for all three categories, since we were able to choose from a large number of heterogeneous high-quality projects. This year, an important criterion for the jury was the “innovation” factor, both in terms of technology and with a view to design and participation processes as well as environmental and social challenges,” says Winy Maas, chairman of the jury.

“Buildings” category represented by Zumtobel
In the “Buildings” category sponsored by Zumtobel, the first prize was awarded to the Venice-based architects of Studio Tamassociati, who were chosen from a total of 146 projects submitted. In this category, outstanding building projects completed within the last two years (from 30 November 2011 to 30 November 2013) could be submitted.

Award goes to children's hospital in Sudan
On behalf of the Italian “Emergency” relief organisation that provides free medical treatment to victims of war, land mines and poverty, a children's hospital was built in Sudan. The hospital situated in the strategically important city of Port Sudan is one of the few locations where free medical treatment for children is available. In view of the extreme conditions prevailing on site – in particular as regards the hot desert climate and the country's political instability – what was called for was simplicity in design. The architects combined old and new technologies and developed a system that takes cooling, waste air treatment, recycling, redistribution of local materials, landscape design and energy savings into account. In order to clean the hospital's waste water, a public garden was set out. This garden – the only public garden in the neighbourhood – is an important element in the patients' recovery.

Read more about this project and the award-winning projects in the other categories at  » http://www.zumtobel-group-award.com.

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The flexible lighting solution, suitable for both pleasant ambient lighting and pinpoint accent lighting, incorporates a total of 70 IYON LED spotlights with a uniformly warm white colour temperature. Mounted on tracks, the spotlights were installed inside the display windows, but also below and above the gallery.

What was decisive for choosing this lighting solution, which also includes 16 recessed PANOS infinity LED downlights, was not only the lighting system's high colour rendering (Ra 90), but also its high energy efficiency.

» For more details, please read the project report

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By changing intensity, contrast, colour, colour temperature, direction and uniformity, the light responds to current trends and emotional needs. A perfect lighting solution stimulates the target group. Prolonged time spent in the shop will increase sales prospects. Once a target group-specific concept has been successfully implemented, it can be multiplied for local or global brand rollout on the basis of design guidelines.

“Never before has anybody realised that light is the decisive marketing factor, which I perceive as being of huge potential,” says Dr. Hans-Georg Häusel of Gruppe Nymphenburg. Jointly with Nicole Schweitzer, he has recorded six videos providing information about the Limbic^® Lighting study conducted by Zumtobel in collaboration with Gruppe Nymphenburg.

The findings of this study will help to develop lighting concepts for retail, so that the potential mentioned by Häusel can be used for presenting goods to optimum effect and increasing the customers' sense of well-being, thus making them stay in the shop longer.

» Watch here what experts from Gruppe Nymphenburg have to say on the subject of Limbic^® Lighting

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In his "Riverbed" exhibition, Eliasson forces the power of nature into built environment, turning architecture – in the form of the Louisiana Museum in Denmark – into an arena of the forces of nature: in a huge rock installation, a riverbed runs through the south wing of the museum located at the Öresund.

Thus, Eliasson overrides the definition of art, nature, indoors and outdoors, taking the elements of water, soil and rock to the inside. This makes people loose the safety provided by built environment. Moreover, the boundaries between day and night are dissolved by "Riverbed", as there is always daytime.

In this way, the artificial presentation of nature is not subject to the changes of time. For this play with illusion, Olafur Eliasson has used a lighting solution by Zumtobel.

The » CRAFT high-bay LED luminaire, concealed behind a fixed screen, has been installed like a grid above the phenomenal nature setting. Without creating any shadows, diffuse bright light similar to daylight does away with the temporal dimension of day and night.

» The "Riverbed" exhibition will be on display until 4 January 2015 at the Louisiana Museum.

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Photos: Anders Sune Berg, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

An important component of the system is the innovative liteCarve^® reflector technology. This innovation is based on an oval-shaped freeform reflector, which – in contrast to traditional wallwashers – creates well-balanced rectangular light distribution on the wall. This system spotlight has established a completely new product category – the vertical wallwasher.

» Read more about the modular lighting system, which will be available with effect from November.

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Sara Haddad, Business Development Manager & MENA key account management responsible along with Thomas Wunderlich, Global Key Account Management Automotive, were there to share their offering to the Porsche’s new strategies and concepts.

The products presented during the exhibition were

» OPURA
» IYON
» VIVO range
» PANOS infinity tunable white.

For more information on events in the Middle East please visit the Dubai Light Centre website.

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