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PROJECT / BOULEVARD BERLIN, BERLIN, GERMANY
Schloßstraße has long served as the main shopping strip in Steglitz, a Berlin district to the southwest of the city’s centre. Though the street already provided a concentration of retail outlets, management company Multi Development saw an opportunity to introduce a high-end shopping environment, one that placed the emphasis on providing a quality experience, alongside a strong variety of outlets.
In 2012, their plan came to fruition with the launch of Boulevard Berlin, a new mall comprising over 160 rental units offering a combined 76,000 square metres of retail space. Licht Kunst Licht were drafted in as lighting designers, working alongside architects Ortner & Ortner in the creation of a strong interior design. Their key focus was to produce a scheme that went beyond the usual shopping mall fare, one that served the ambience of the architectural space and so produce a memorable spatial experience for visitors. As it’s start point, the 390 million euro pro- ject adopted Treischkestraße, an existing road adjoining Schloßstraße, and enveloped it within a new single structure. Existing shops along the street were replaced and the entire boulevard was enclosed by a
glass roof and end walls. At the far end of the street, dubbed the ‘Promonade’, a main entrance was created to face Harry-Bress- lau-Park, a newly formed public space. Off to one side of the main Treischkerstraße thoroughfare, a series of additional hall- ways connect to an internal courtyard and, at the underground levels, to the U-Bahn entrance.
Throughout the mall, Licht Kunst Licht have used cove lighting to create a cohesive scheme, one which aims to make the space comprehensible to visitors while engender- ing a spacious ambience and avoiding what the team considered “the usual over-de- signed luminaires.”
Compared to the main shopping areas, where the illuminated ceilings unfold in almost sculptural fashion, the connecting passageways were deliberately given a more introverted lightings scheme of concealed downlights. Consequently, visitors are drawn back to the main areas,
Promenade Because of the Promenade’s previous status as a public highway, city planners specified that it remain accessible as a thoroughfare for pedestrians throughout the day and night. Consequently, this section of the mall
Top In contrast with crisp white surfaces in most of Boulevard Berlin’s public spaces, the connecting halls feature black stone cladding. Opposite top The former Treischkestraße has been transformed into an enclosed space with glass ceiling and end walls. The inclusion of olive trees necessitated the use of 150W HIT directable projectors.
Above and opposite below The mall’s internal courtyard is topped by a skylight carrying 70W HIT spotliights
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