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108 TECHNOLOGY / CASE STUDY


HISTORY IN A NEW LIGHT


The Vorarlberg Museum aims to give visitors a better understanding of Austrian history. Zumtobel implemented a new control concept to suit the building’s innovative design.


Lighting is a significant design element in the new look Vorarlberg Museum in Austria, which aims to tell the story of the Vorarlberg area.


An important aspect in the building’s redesign was to find a perfect lighting system for the various areas of the museum that could also be adjusted flexibly and quickly. In collaboration with lighting designer Manfred Draxl and with structural and technical requirements in mind, Zumtobel developed a customised lighting concept for the museum that combines efficient and gentle lighting with high lighting quality and perfect colour rendering. Moreover, all areas of the museum are uniformly lit with a warm white colour temperature of 3000K, this creates perfect lighting conditions for the exhibits as well as a pleasant atmosphere


for both visitors and staff members. About 90 percent of the lighting comprises custom solutions, including more than 1400 special luminaires. Furthermore, Zumtobel developed so-called multi-functional mono-points (MMP) for the exhibition areas and the foyer, which allowed unobtrusive homogeneous installation despite the building’s slightly conical layout. MMPs are concrete casting boxes with a diameter of 90 millimetres. Recessed into the ceiling along a grid, they allow flexible integration of luminaires, loudspeakers or heavy-duty elements. The MMP automatically detects when a luminaire is installed and connects it to the central Luxmate Litenet lighting management system. Using Luxmate, the museum’s entire lighting solution can easily be controlled with high precision.


The system combines complex qualities to form a central unit that can be operated and configured thanks to especially developed graphic user interfaces via smartphones and tablets. In addition, Zumtobel has developed a special addressing concept for the illumination of exhibition spaces, which allows for luminaires installed in retrospect to be integrated into the existing lighting solution immediately.


For uniform vertical illumination of walls, with the light centre at eye level, Zumtobel used wallwashers as suspended pendant luminaires with a length of 470 millimetres. Moreover, two pivoting LED luminaires,a simple recessed spotlight and a suspended version with five integrated spots ,enable accent lighting of the exhibits. www.zumtobel.com


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