114 TECHNOLOGY / STREET & AMENITY LIGHTING
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Specially produced lighting at Meissl’s new Porsche muesum
The spectacular new museum for classic within a special shell-like, convex cavity on
sports car manufacturer, Porsche, designed the column itself.
by architects Delugan Meissl, opened in Each of these special curved recesses had
early 2009 at the Porsche HQ in Stuttgart- to be hand-shaped, using an aluminium
Zuffenhausen, Germany. This highly praised insert set into the stainless steel column.
structure, with its asymmetric, highly The convex cavity allows the lanterns to sit
dynamic volumes, which appear to ‘float’ closer to - and even visually ‘merge’ with
above the site, required an equally unique - the columns when used as horizontal spot-
exterior lighting solution. Turning to Se’lux, lights. At the Porsche Museum, there are
the architects commissioned a special, seven of the specially designed seven-metre
custom-designed version of the best-selling columns, each of which features five Olivio
Olivio luminaire (distributed in the UK by Grande luminaires arrayed around the pole.
Woodhouse), which is now available as a Their wide rotation offers wide distribution
‘special’ on a project-by-project basis. and perfect lighting coverage for horizontal
The special versions of Olivio (called Olivio and vertical surfaces.
Floracion) mounted on seven-metre col- All the columns and fittings at the Porsche
umns, are used to provide ambient lighting Museum are finished in a high-gloss black
to the access route to the Museum and the – but a note of contrast is added by painting
terrace in front of the building – as well as the interior of each curved recess in white.
to provide additional accent lighting to the The new Olivio Floracion products are IP67
exterior walls. In order to make the lines of rated and are available with the Olivio
the lantern-column ensemble sleeker and Grande lantern and with a wide selection of
less obtrusive, the architects, working with beam angles and control accessories.
lighting consultants Delux of Zurich and
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the Se’lux design team, devised a shorter
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hinged connecting arm, which is mounted
FREE PARKING
Solar power street lighting at the Copenhagen Climate talks
Commissioned by the Danish Government
conference with the aim of reaching an
with a mandate from the United Nations,
international agreement on climate change
a project to create emission free light-
that builds on the Kyoto Protocol.
ing proved a talking point at December’s
Scotia’s mast family integrates highly ef-
Copenhagen climate conference.
ficient solar cells into a single, slender form
EwoLED, a manufacturer of high-quality
that can either be topped with a street
lighting systems for public spaces, worked
lamp or used on its own to generate power.
with architectural firm 3XN and lighting
The mast is designed with excellent low-
designer Steven Scott (of newly-launched
light behaviour and, contrary to intution,
Danish company Scotia) to develop a solar-
performs best at northern latitudes. The
powered street light to be place in the
masts - produced by Riegens - generate
carpark outside the Bella Center, the main
between 80 and 400 kWh per year and are
venue for the conference.
available in several heights from 4 - 10m.
Designed to work in low levels of sunlight,
An 8m mast situated in Copenhagen is
the system they developed not only uses
estimated to save 170kg of CO2 a year com-
less energy than it generates, but is also
pared to a conventional street lamp. The
able to feed energy back into the power
masts are fail-safe, do not rely on batteries
network. The product fulfils the EN13201
or weather conditions, and cut maintance
standard for street lighting up to the high-
cost by using stable long lasting technology
est classification of M1.
with no moving parts.
Some 20,000 people, including government
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officials from 170 countries, attended the
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Pics: Adam Mork
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