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Modern Working Worlds – Lighting Concept for Office / Office Area

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Modern Working Environments – Lighting Concept for Office / Office Area IT-Department

Office areas, meeting rooms

In accordance with our client’s high demands for an attractive working environment for the company’s employees, our lighting concept combines great functionality with attractive design. For each area of the open-plan office floor, an individual lighting concept was developed, which optimally supports the individual use of the rooms, from computer workstations, meeting rooms, informal areas, to individual offices.

The lighting of the entire company area changes depending on the amount of daylight, i.e. the luminous flux of the luminaires is coupled with the daylight through sensors and the color temperature transforms depending on the time of day (Human Centric Lighting).

The visualization of the planning shows a light scene in darkness. Light lines indicate the course of the corridor and elegantly “floating” office luminaires mark the individual work groups. With their indirect light and the large-area illumination of the ceiling, the room is visually widened and the biological lighting effect is supported.

Slaughterhouse Five

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Slaughterhouse-Five, Messe Dresden

Memorial wall and information light sculpture

The artistically designed information light sculpture / memorial wall “Slaughterhouse Five” is visited annually by tourists from all over the world.
In the basement of the former slaughterhouse, the American author Kurt Vonnegut – like his protagonist Billy Pilgrim – survived the Allied forces bombing of Dresden on February 13, 1945 as a prisoner of war. The multimedia literary sculpture allows the viewer to experience the metamorphosis of the city of Dresden.
Through the artful superimposition of drawings, paintings, photographs, and city map excerpts, embedded in a complex grid of wood and Plexiglas, various temporal levels of the city’s history and at the same time the collage-like nature of the novel become visible. Lit from behind, the structure appears sculptural incorporating light and shadow as part of a larger picture.

Frankfurt Riedberg 2

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Housing Estate Containing 18 Single-family Houses

In Frankfurt’s Riedberg district, a lively, urban neighborhood is being developed with a university, schools / kindergartens and very good transport links to the city center of Frankfurt am Main.

For an investor, we planned 12 single-family houses as semi-detached houses and 6 detached single-family houses using the design-and-build method.

The house type has 2.5 floors, a staggered roof with an attractive sun terrace on the upper floor, a basement and is built from sand-lime bricks in a solid construction. Due to the floor-to-ceiling windows, all rooms are flooded with light. Inside, the house type offers clear simple floor plans with an optimal division of the premises. The modern urban single-family house type is tailored to the market of modern urban residential architecture.

Lighting Concept Bahnhofstrasse Lichtenrade, Berlin

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Lighting Concept Bahnhofstraße Lichtenrade, Berlin

Lighting masterplan for the active center, the district center, the shopping street

The planning of the public lighting for the traffic areas (street) and secondary areas (pedestrian and recreational areas) is an essential part of our lighting concept for Bahnhofstraße Lichtenrade. The street and sidewalk lighting is coordinated with the superordinate lighting concept of the city of Berlin.

In addition to the use of light as a design tool to improve the appearance of public spaces and to increase the quality of stay in Bahnhofstraße, the lighting always serves first to ensure traffic safety. By providing uniform illuminance, emphasizing conflict zones and avoiding disturbing light (glare), safety for road users is increased and the quality of stay in the urban space is supported. The subspaces (microspaces) defined in the lighting master plan can optimally fulfill their function of structuring the public space, increasing attraction and dwell time even in the dark half of the day or year. Consideration was also given to the future redesign of the commercial street and the lowest possible maintenance and energy costs while optimally fulfilling the lighting task.

House-Evolucio, The architect house for everyone

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House-Evolucio, The Architect House for Everyone

Innovative living concept in modular construction

  • Flexible: minimal tiny house or spacious Loft house character and pre-planned interfaces for easy architecture changes according to individual needs;
  • Environmentally friendly: minimal ecological footprint
  • Cost-effective: modular construction and architectural-grade materials for cost-effective construction
  • Flood-proof: elevation for safety in flood-prone areas

House EVOLUCIO is a flexible, growth-capable and intergenerational housing concept that combines living and working in the city.

The distinctive architecture is able to structurally adapt to the changing needs of its residents without changing the basic architectural concept. Flexibility in floor plan design and planning of the individually separable apartments as well as barrier-free accessibility are planning principles that create the conditions that allow for the house to be able to adapt equally to the individual requirements and needs of different generations and life situations. The consistent architectural concept enables a cost-effective realization without compromising quality.

Services: HOAI LP 1-9

Client: private

The Erich Kaestner House of Literature, Conversion of Museum Rooms

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The Erich Kaestner House for Literature, Dresden

Conversion of the museum room

The structural changes made it possible to maintain the distance regulations for visitors to Dresden’s popular literature museum required during the Corona pandemic, so that museum operations could be safeguarded in times of pandemic.

The previously highly structured premises of the Erich Kaestner Museum, consisting of a checkroom, hallway and exhibition room, were converted into a spacious museum room using our opening room concept. Entrance and exit of the museum were separated from each other in the new concept.

In addition, the museum rooms were redesigned according to Ruairí O’Brien’s color concept.

Services:

  • Structural engineering (overall planning, incl. statics)
  • individual color concept
  • Redesign of the museum rooms

Planning / execution 2020 / 2021

Now -and -Here

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Now-and-Here

Architectural design for new Luxury restaurant and hotel building, Postplatz Dresden

The purpose planned here is a special inspiration for architectural creation. To create a house for a real day and night cycle is tantamount to a homage to the self. A house which includes a bistro with a lively morning café and “nightlife” that celebrates everyday life, that can benefit from the street flair of a sunny piazza and has the special magic of a sophisticated evening restaurant, possibly world-class, is a building that captures the rhythms of life and “talks” to the sun and the moon. Food and the preparation and transformation of food with simple ingredients into unforgettable moments of pleasure have parallels with high quality architecture, also created with imagination and attention to detail.

Moreover, the 360-degree concept makes it possible to face, at eye level, all the neighboring buildings and squares – to the theater opposite, to the piazza on the south side, to the façade side facing the Zwinger (with the large eye positioned in the center and the roof terrace with gallery) or to the entrance facing the Postplatz. The building acts outwardly with a generous gesture of openness and friendly invitation.

Color and Light Concept Villa Regerstrasse

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Color and Lighting Concept Villa Regerstrasse

Psychotherapy Institute for Children and Adolescents

German Society for Behavior Therapy in Saxony, Germany. Institute for Children and Adolescents in Dresden (2021-2022)

The institute’s new location is a newly renovated, landmarked villa in Dresden-Blasewitz, Germany.

Light, color, and material choices play an important role in creating the right atmosphere for all age groups and the various scenarios of discussions, presentations, and meetings that take place at the institute. As those responsible for the interior design, it was of utmost importance for us to balance the heaviness of the old, charming building with bright, friendly, appealing and even thought-provoking interiors. The choice and use of different colors, lighting fixtures, mirrors, materials and decorative elements tell stories that give the reception, offices and therapy rooms their own identity. The impressive staircase is celebrated as a special space that connects the floors. The dark basement needed special attention so that it could be used for seminars and educational purposes. At the Psychotherapeutic Institute in Dresden, child and adolescent psychotherapists and psychological psychotherapists are trained with a strong practical orientation. In addition, outpatient psychotherapeutic treatments are offered in the institute’s outpatient clinic.

Requirements for the current use are as follows:

  • Work office / administration
  • Treatment of patients / therapy rooms
  • Training / seminar rooms
  • Flexible uses – adaptation / change between seminar and group therapy uses

Photos: Peter Fischer

Meetingpoint Music Messiaen Zgorzelec-en

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Meetingpoint Music Messiaen Zgorzelec

Winning design in the competition for an international meeting centre as a memorial on the site of the former prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 1a

The design of the “European Centre for Education and Culture – Meetingpoint Music Messiaen” in Zgorzelec, Poland won 1st prize in the competition for the architectural-urban planning concept in 2009.

Services: HOAI LP 1-3, basic evaluation, preliminary design, draft (2009-2012)
Client: Meetingpoint Music Messiaen e.V., Görlitz
Client: Fundacja Centrum Wspierania Przedsiębiorczości w Zgorzelec

Pedestrian zone Baeckerstrasse Torgau

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Baker Street Torgau

Lighting for the pedestrian zone

Ruairí O’Brien planned new lighting for the historic market square and pedestrian zone in the listed old town area. Conceptually, the focus was on the integration into the urban environment and an optimal use of the public space.
An identity-creating, contemporary and resource-saving lighting for the Renaissance town of Torgau was created, which integrates itself urbanistically into the existing ensemble, increasing the quality of stay of the public space and highlights the function of the Baeckerstrasse as the main shopping street in Torgau.

Client: City of Torgau
Services: Lighting concept