Winter lighting concept Leipzig

At the invitation of the City of Leipzig, Ruairí O’Brien developed a winter or Christmas lighting concept in a workshop process. The concept follows the title “inside-outside” and, under the motto “Zeitgeist mit Herz”, pursues the goal of contrasting a “city ring frozen in light” with the warmly illuminated city centre. The aim is to create a fairytale experience. This is achieved through “onion-like thermodynamic lighting”, which bathes the ring in a cold white neutral light and the city centre within it in a warm and homey light. This urban gradation is proposed not only as a Christmas lighting concept, but as “winter lighting” as a whole, corresponding to the temporal dynamics of the winter and Advent season. The concept was recommended for further development for realization, especially due to its urban planning approach with a special appreciation.

Client: City of Leipzig, Urban Planning Office

Services: Lighting concept

Leipzig, Information Sculpture “89

20 Years of Peaceful Revolution – Information Sculpture / Exhibition

This spatial information sculpture was created to mark the anniversary of the peaceful revolution. Panels inform about the historical event in autumn 1989, about the Leipzig Light Festival and the artists participating in it. The sculpture thus forms a connecting element to the current installations taking place in public space and informs visitors about the historical events of 1989.

Client: City of Leipzig / Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH

University Dresden, Administration Building House 62

Redesign of the corridor areas, lighting and colour concept

On behalf of the University Hospital Dresden, we developed and implemented a redesign of the corridor area in accordance with current usage requirements in parallel with the planning of structural fire protection measures. The false ceiling and the floor were renewed, and some of the interior walls were changed. An attractive colour and lighting concept was developed according to the corporate design. The positioning of the luminaires visually expands the corridor and also illuminates the exhibition design in the wall area.

Lighting master plan

Light staging in Kurort Rathen

Our lighting master plan for the spa town of Rathen is a design-functional model for an optimal staging of the town with light. The forward-looking concept identifies the need for action and makes recommendations for the process-oriented development of public lighting. In addition to street lighting, the focus is on the staging of buildings as well as natural features and characteristics. The lighting master plan forms the basis for the process-oriented and coherent implementation of holistic lighting in the spa town. It also serves as a coordinated inclusion of many individual measures and participants, e.g. authorities, institutions, companies, investors and citizens. The targeted development of the town’s lighting is intended to increase the attractiveness of the town and the quality of stay in the public space in an energy- and cost-efficient way.

Client: Kurort Rathen, Mayor

Services: Lighting concept, lighting master plan: Urban development, paths, natural space, attractions / Seasonal lighting concept

Light storyteller

Concept for the memorial area in the north of Dresden

The LICHTERTÄHLER concept is an expression of an immersive culture of remembrance. The light/shadow sculptures, which can be executed at different heights, dimensions and angles, intertwine the historical past with the sensual present, mark relationship interdependencies between the places of memory and involve visitors in a direct, low-threshold way through interaction with solar geometry. The urban planning dimensioning takes into account the importance of the topic and the scale of the area/the respective location. The aesthetic language expresses the existential harshness and force of historical events, making the perpetrator’s attitude and victim feeling palpable. The light counter objects form a roof, are flexible anchor points, create microclimatic, sensually and cognitively stimulating spaces for a variety of individual and collective, analog, media and digital interventions, reflections and activities. A variety of light guidance and control variants can be played using a light-shadow plan with narrative dramaturgy.

AMD Dresden

Concept for light and color

For the new premises Dresden branch of AMD.
5G antennas are developed at the Dresden site.

The planning included laboratory and development rooms as well as offices and social areas, and a work café area.
Lighting concept for modern working environments of today, tailored to the individual requirements of each area.
Combination of standard-compliant lighting in accordance with DIN and ASR requirements and discreetly designed lighting to ensure a sense of well-being at the workplace.
The requirements were light for flexible uses (work-café – meetings during the day, group work and ceremonial gatherings in the company, but easy to control).
Our goal was to provide the workplace with different requirements, where people like to spend time and ideal working conditions.