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“An intelligent, resource-saving combination of façade lighting meets functional and aesthetic requirements, creates new urban spaces and lends a unique quality to architecture at night. Prince-Elector Carl Theodor acknowledged the merits of façade lighting when Duesseldorf drew up a lighting master plan to mark his visit to the town in 1742. The DUS-Illuminated Civic Foundation is now tapping into this master plan in order to create added value for the town of Duesseldorf thanks to its nocturnal illuminations.”

Dr. Ing. Edmund Spohr
Architect | Edmund Spohr architecture firm

• Harmonious accents and centre-stage settings upgrade public space
• Lighting master plans defi ne a town’s personality
• Designs that enjoy high levels of public acceptance take environmental conditions into account

• Exceptional townscapes attract tourists
• Commercial enterprises are infl uenced by townscapes when deciding where to locate their business
• Visually appealing towns are more attractive places to live

Dr. Thomas Posch
International Dark Sky Association

“Only a few lighting designers exploit the possibility of providing aesthetically elegant, resource-saving lighting that costs relatively little. Poorly planned façade lighting is becoming an increasingly serious problem that affects the aesthetic appearance of nocturnal landscapes as well as creatures that are active at night, such as insects and migrating birds. Large portions of the deployed light often miss the façade in question and the luminance levels used are often considerably higher than necessary.”

• LED luminaires consume little energy and are mounted in the façade or in the immediate vicinity of the surface that is to be illuminated
• Directing light in a targeted manner minimises stray light
• Intelligent lighting control achieves maximum effect with minimum energy consumption

• An illuminated building makes passers-by feel more secure and discourages vandalism
• Brightening vertical surfaces makes spatial orientation easier
• Vertical façade lighting is subjectively perceived as brighter than plain horizontal lighting

Stefan Hofmann
Lighting designer | Lichtwerke

“The revolutionary development of LEDs has opened up fresh design approaches for façade lighting. The controllability of the brightness and light colour of LED light sources, together with their diverse optical characteristics, are making innovative technical lighting solutions possible. For example, façade lighting can be realised from inside a building thanks to the compact dimensions of LEDs. Rather than flooding façades with light, it is now possible to integrate light sources into the architecture. Finally, the low energy consumption of LED light sources chimes with the widely discussed topic of how to save energy.”

• The right colour temperature underscores materials and character
• Uniform, vertical lighting emphasises the surfaces of a façade without altering the architecture
• Precise accent lighting picks out distinctive architectural features

• Light lines defi ne structure and allow easier orientation
• The architecture and contours of a building are visible, even when it is dark
• Different luminance levels on various surfaces differentiate the foreground from the background

James Turrell
Lighting artist

“Light is intangible, but real – it can only be seen when it is emitted or reflected by an object. Light itself has a spatial aspect and fills space. The visibility of light is bound up in an object which itself only becomes visible thanks to the light that impinges on it. Tactility and visibility are linked together in a bewildering way, so that the medium of vision itself remains largely invisible, usually functioning like an extension of the sense of sight, the eye – like a sense of touch operating at a distance.”

• Coloured light arouses people’s emotions
• Dynamic lighting changes have a long-distance effect and lure passers-by nearer
• Emotional lighting concepts bring architecture to life

• Lighting structures transform neutral architecture into an attractive façade´
• Light can transform architecture
• Lighting structures with colour form patterns that can become a work of art

Dipl.-Ing. Lighting-Design Sylwia Schafranietz
Lighting designer | co:licht, Berlin

“Media façades provide an opportunity to underscore the existing identity of a town and its unique appearance as well as to project it effectively and consistently. Innovative media façades, used as an element that reflects identity, reference a place and the people who live there – thereby making it stand out from the crowd. The lighting designer’s task is to critically integrate this sensitive interrelationship into a lighting concept. Operators, inhabitants and the town itself will reap equal benefit from this in the long term.”

• Light gives the corporate design of a brand a greater longreach effect
• Colour, direction and intensity of light make the character and positioning of a brand visible, even at night
• Façade lighting brings added prestige

• Pixelangesteuerte Fassaden vermitteln Informationen über Texte und Bilder
• Interaktive Fassaden reagieren auf Passanten und das Umfeld
• Medienfassaden verändern das Stadtbild und erfordern hohe planerische Sensibilität