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PUBLIC REALM PROJECTS / HAFENCITY-UNIVERSITY U-BAHN, HAMBURG, GERMANY
PROJECT DETAILS
Hafencity-University Subway Station, Hamburg, Germany Client: Hafencity
Architects: Raupach Architects, Stauss Pedrazzini Industrial Design
Lighting Design: Pfarré Lighting Design
LIGHTING SPECIFIED ERCO Lightcast 35W
Alexander Weckmer Licht LED RGB nodes.
made of matt-white glass.
The units have been designed to change colour en masse and signal the arrival or imminent departure of a train and the colours can be coordinated and controlled in individual sections to synchronise with the seasons.
The lights change at a relaxed rate and are engineered so as not to be bombastic and resemble entertainment lighting, yet both the atmosphere and the spatial experience created by the colours is extremely powerful.
All the entrance areas to the station and the ticket halls are illuminated with fluorescent cove lighting systems in order to sharpen
their architectural concept and the recessed metal halide downlights in the ticket halls are ERCO Lightcast 35W luminaires. The containers, created by Alexander Weckmer Licht, are custom-made and equipped with 280 LED RGB nodes per container equaling 1100W. “The shipping container perfectly matches the busy harbour above,” says Gerd Pfarré of Pfarré Lighting Design who won a competition to take part in the project. “The architect’s idea to clad all the walls and ceilings with steel also matched the typical material used in the construction of ships and cranes. We wanted to design a station in correspondence to the site,
not another ‘add-on design’ to a subway station.”
Initially Pfarré wanted to design the containers so it was possible, via a catwalk style passage, for commuters to walk through them and experience the light inside.
“The colour changing system was from the beginning a key feature of the lighting design concept,” says Pfarré. “We wanted to create smooth magical reflections of coloured light on the steel surfaces.” The plan was not to devise a lighting design that entertained, but the intention of the chosen colours was to create a calm, relaxed atmosphere, a space for
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