Category: Lighting Design

Light Sculpture for the Schwerin Market Place

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Light Sculpture for the Schwerin Market Place

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The micro light sculpture in Schwerin was the first in a series of light sculptures that architect and artist Ruairí O’ Brien purposefully developed using simple means, simple materials and simple construction as a tribute to the art of architecture, to the effect of light on people, space and time.

Light sculpture for the Schwerin market place, consisting of 3 equal, variably combinable modular parts, which in the present composition form a cube space and a focal point to the light theme with quiet action character. During the day it takes the function of a shadow caster, in the evening that of a light machine. In a subtle way, it reflects the chronology of the daily routine and the dramaturgy of life, ergonomically illustrating the relationship between micro and macro scale.

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.

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.

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

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

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

University Hospital, House 52, Recovery Rooms

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Dresden University Hospital, House 52

Light and color concept for the recovery rooms in the anesthesia area

Ruairí O’Brien developed a lighting and color concept for the design of the recovery rooms in the anesthesia area of the Dresden University Hospital that better meets the requirements of this hospital area. The task was to integrate the lighting into the existing grid ceiling and existing electrical installation. In order to ensure optimal lighting for the patient and the treating specialist staff, different lighting situations can be combined, which are controlled manually or with the help of a program.

Customs port, Mainz

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Lighting Concept Zollhafen, Mainz

Lighting concept as competition entry

Within the framework of a competition for the redesign of the Zollhafen Mainz, this lighting concept was developed, in which the theme of the harbor is expressed metaphorically and thus contributes to an urban-poetic statement. The aim is to emphasize the maritime character of the harbor and also to better orientate passers-by through the different lighting of the outer and inner areas and to make the area is generally more inviting.

Competition entry together with hutterreimann landscape architecture

Memorial Honorary Grove Zeithain

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Memorial Honorary Grove Zeithain

Concept and realization of the permanent exhibition

Architecture, exhibition, lighting

With the literal planting of a new architectural-thematic heart, the “walk-in showcase” as a micro-architectural implantation in the historical RAD barracks preserved from the former prisoner-of-war camp Zeithain, the bridge between (structural) past and present is successfully built.
This glass structure, a microclimatic soundproof object, thematizes not only time but also space in a special way and, as a time capsule in a place with a special auratic effect, it creates a deliberate irritation that sensitizes the visitor to the exhibition theme. In the document house the visitor has the possibility to work on the offered thematic focal points in the operable micro-architectural information sculptures, which are executed in the same exhibition language, whereby new visual axes are offered again and again and an intensive reference to the content material is created with light/ mirrors.