TECHNOLOGY / IALD AWARDS, LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL, PHILADELPHIA, USA
SUBTERRANEAN TONES AND HUES
For the sixth year in a row a European practice walked away with the highest accolade at the IALD International Lighting Design Awards, recognised at a presentation held during LFI in Philadelphia. Gerd Pfarré of Munich based practice pfarré lighting design accepted the Radiance Award for this highly innovative underground scheme to criticial acclaim.
TECHNOLOGY / LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL, PHILADELPHIA, USA
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RADIANCE AWARD PROJECT: HAFENCITY-UNIVERSITY SUBWAY STATION, HAMBURG, GERMANY LIGHTING DESIGN: PFARRÉ LIGHTING DESIGN
The highest point score winner across all categories, in addition to receiving an Award of Excellence for their project, received the IALD Radiance Award for Excellence in Lighting Design. Pfarré Lighting Design received this honour for the first time, accepted by principal Gerd Pfarré, FIALD, for this vibrant project.
Suspended high above the HafenCity-University U4 subway platform are twelve ‘shipping containers’ designed to the exact dimensions of those used in the HafenCity district’s former life as a global shipping centre. Instead of tangible goods, these containers designed by pfarré lighting design, contain light.
“There are so many elements I love about this project,” one IALD International Lighting Design Awards judge praised of the project. “Art as functional light, elegant programming, seamless integration and expression of transportation.” The design of Hamburg’s Hafencity-University station was inspired by the iridescent colors sunlight creates on brick façades in the HafenCity development project over the course of a day, as well as the steel ship hulls filled with ocean freight containers you could find in the port in its heyday. Each container developed for the HafenCity-University station weighs six tons and incorporates 260 RGB LEDs. Preset scenes can be used for day and night, when a train is approaching, or simply to create a visual sensation while waiting. The scenes can be static or dynamic, depending on the needs of the moment.
“This project teaches a lesson in how to use light to make a space functional, safe, fun and just plain awesome,” another judge commented on the project.
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