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PROJECT / TELEKOM BRIDGE, BONN, GERMANY
The lives of the 4,000 employees at Eu- rope’s largest telecommunications company, Deutsche Telekom AG, in Bonn has been made considerably easier now that a new footbridge connects two office blocks across a busy road.
For the employees working on either side of the B9 federal highway, the 72-metre bridge is as much a boon as it is a gift from the company to the inhabitants of Bonn. Before the bridge’s construction pedestrians crossing the Friedrich Ebert Allee (B9) had a 600-metre journey - a distance that many attempted to short-cut by hazardous sprints across four lanes of roadway and two tram tracks.
Pics: Lukas Roth, Cologne
Safety was thus the pivotal motive for bridging the road at seven metres above ground. Comfort was a second motive and consequently less mobile people now have elevators at their disposal on both sides of the bridge. The third intention was to cre- ate a piece of corporate identity. With the sweeping deck of the bridge supported by just five slender steel tubular columns the engineering office of Schlaich, Bergermann and Partner has designed a structure that conveys modernity and technical mastery. Licht Kunst Licht’s lighting concept with in- teractive elements orchestrates the sweep- ing filigree architecture of the bridge and follows the client’s company slogan: staff members and the public can now “Experi- ence the Connection” on the bridge. A particularly clear reference to Telekom AG is made by the lighting concept, since it allows the client recourse to its CI colour. A magenta-coloured luminous band spans
CONNECTING PEOPLE
In order to retain the functional dominance of the elevator shafts within the urban context during the hours of darkness, LED channels have been mounted behind the opal glass façades. The flexibly adjustable Philips luminaires are located at the upper and lower edges of the towers and backlight their glass panels with neutral white grazing light. Good visibility on the bridge’s circulation areas is provided by neutral white light from INSTA linear LED profiles. This lighting component is incorporated in all handrails and is therefore – similar to the media screens – an integral part of the construction.
Licht Kunst Licht’s first exclusively LED lighting scheme is encorporated into the Telekom Bridge’s architecture and helps create a corporate message
the Friedrich Ebert Allee day and night. On both longitudinal flanks a 65-metre-long media display has been integrated into the bridge construction. These LED video dis- play panels have a resolution of 32 x 6500 pixels and a colour saturation of 16 bit. They consist of a seamless array of display modules that were especially developed for this project.
From the outset the media strips were incorporated into the architects’ design pro- cess. As a result the LED modules and their control electronics, mains units and cabling
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