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unit. This has created a large light-media carpet providing a wealth of surprising effects based on multiple reflections, lumi- nance levels and movement. A purpose-built optic makes the special LED line appear perfectly uniform. Its body has been designed to exactly match the brick structures. Zumtobel developed, provided and commissioned the entire system and solved the difficult installation procedure, which had to be perfectly synchronised with the installation of the façade and yet allow for safe and easy maintenance. Henning Larsen Architects was responsible for the lighting design in the foyers, the concert hall and the rehearsal halls. The studies of the lighting was an influence on the spatial layout of the building. The foyer has been oriented towards the city to enhance the connection between city and concert hall. In this way the audience and visitors of the building can enjoy views to the sea and to the city and the people of the city are afforded with a fascinating kaleidoscopic play of shadows and the ac- tive festivity when observing the building at night time.
The glass façades capture and break the light in endless variations. This creates experiences both inside and outside the building – depending on the time of the day or season. In the daytime, the foyer space is characterised by the south façade embrac- ing the room in a bombardment of colours, light and shadow. Seen from the outside, the transparency and vibrancy of the glass façades will contra pose the heavier inner volumes of the four halls. Eliasson explains: “In the foyer, kaleido- scopic shadows are projected onto the walls and floor, creating an almost crystalline space. This notion of the crystalline is an evocative yet precise metaphor for Harpa as a house for cultural activities. It will be a space where ideas are crystallised into form, sounds into feelings, feelings into ac- tions, and actions into life.” As the concert hall and rehearsal halls had to meet the most advanced acoustic requirements, all lighting installations fitted in these halls needed approval in acoustic terms, making sure that they produced vir- tually no noise emissions. This problem was eventually solved using a Zumtobel Tecton continuous-row lighting system and the Pa- nos downlight range fitted with fluorescent lamps, which met the requirements by using the best quality ballasts and light sources. The single-lamp overlapping continuous-row luminaire creates a perfect shadow-free effect on the walls. Panos downlights have also been installed underneath the galler- ies. When the doors that cover the entire
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