Lighting concept Duisburg-Marxloh

Lighting design for the redesign of August-Bebel-Platz, Weseler Straße

Competition entry 2024

Our robust luminaires, from a range of pole-mounted luminaires with an urban character developed for the location, can be individually configured and ensure optimum illumination of the square, street and micro-spaces. Light directed exclusively at the ground from above minimises glare and spill light and reduces light pollution.

The height, alignment and lighting technology of the individually curved poles with flexible spotlights can be adapted to the spatial conditions and enable optimum light distribution. The high-quality illumination of August-Bebel-Platz, starting from its peripheral areas, is made possible. All areas of the square are clearly visible. The perception of safety is supported.

Differentiated light colour temperatures structure the urban space and support orientation. Selected light distributions ensure uniform illumination of the traffic areas and accentuation of the peripheral areas. On August-Bebel-Platz, the large number of small light points and overlays create an exciting lighting experience.

The lighting concept supports communication and encounters. Small micro-spaces that invite people to linger are given a warm lighting atmosphere. On the square, colourful gobo projections provide temporary playful accents. Children are fascinated by the spray of water and light, which creates small rainbows from different perspectives. This liveliness also has a positive effect on the feeling of safety.

Individual lighting scenarios fulfil the respective requirements of the time of day or night. In the late hours of the night, the lighting can be set to ultra-warm white light and reduced luminous flux. Insect-friendliness and the protection of darkness are increased, while uniform illumination / safety remains guaranteed.

On festive occasions, special lighting moods can be created on August-Bebel-Platz, e.g. with increased colour intensity and individual motif projection.

Competition entry with QUERFELDEINS Landschaft | Städtebau | Architektur, Dresden

Visualisierung Ruairí O’Brien . Lichtdesign 2024

Transformation 1.535°

Dresden International Airport – Lighting concept for the departure terminal

Our lighting concept for Terminal 1 at Dresden International Airport aims to build a bridge to the future. In addition to technical lighting to ensure traffic safety, precise light differentiation of individual areas, levels and elements helps travellers find their way around.

The architectural lighting design emphasises the spatial quality and the unmistakable industrial architecture of the terminal and underlines the uniqueness of Dresden Airport. It supports the positioning of the airport as a modern, open and future-orientated location of international stature.

The lighting concept combines technical lighting and light art to visually depict themes such as flying, the sky and mobility and to create a symbolic link between the past, present and future. This concept gives the previously anonymous hall a narrative dimension that offers a special experience for air travellers from all over the world.

The “flying carpet“,(a carpet of light) consisting of numerous curved downlights under the hall roof, creatively provides adequate illumination of the floor and creates a unique aesthetic. A “cloud of light“ immerses the entrance hall in dynamically changing lighting moods and uses reflective moving elements to create a constantly changing interplay of light and shadow, which has a fascinating effect both in natural daylight and with artificial lighting.

A light and glass sculpture, made of holographic and dichroic elements, enables visitors to be symbolically “beamed“ into the universe.

Client: Flughafen Dresden GmbH

Services provided: Terminal 2017 lighting concept

Architectural Lighting Design concept for the Brandenburg Theatre, Germany (2024)

Development of a lighting guideline

Lighting concept Sonotec, Halle (Saale)

Eternal Light

“Eternity”- Ruairí O’Brien competition entry for the Frechen Central Memorial

Ruairí O’Brien’s work of art “Eternity”, with its striking and at the same time simple elements in a material and metaphorical sense, forms a dignified space for remembering all victims of the National Socialist tyranny. The two vertical masts and the line of light floating horizontally between them mark and house the real Fre¬chen green space; At the same time, through the immaterial spaces in between, they inspire an unlimited mental wandering between times, spaces and events. A line crosses the sky and illuminates the ground below. At the same time, reference is made to the spatial and temporal significance of the topic. The meta-level created in this way, which can be perceived haptically / visually / with the senses, forms an expansion space and yet an ensemble with the information board designed for concrete, authoritative verbal information about the history.
“Simplicity gives complexity” – Simplicity allows and harbors great complexity here.
The work of art brings public attention to the central memorial site. It marks this central square as a central memorial day and night and symbolically refers to the places where the events took place. The work encourages you to linger, to pause, and offers flexible space for mediation work by institutions, groups and individual actors.
The line of light (bridge) that invites you to look, think and remember, it remains, it is always there.
The work of art has a noticeable day and night effect. Depending on the viewer’s location, depending on the time of year and day, depending on the weather, lighting conditions, environment and individual visitor’s condition, it develops its effect – sometimes more delicate, sometimes more intense, always with a long-distance and close-up effect.
Anyone who approaches the work of art opens up different perspectives and perceptions. Viewers are reflected in the masts, their gaze connecting their own self with the surroundings and the subject matter. The environment is reflected in it, light is reflected and directed.

German Embassy Dublin

Lighting concept for the design for the outdoor areas of the German Embassy in Ireland

We are excited to post our final design proposal for the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ireland
In this project, architecture, light and spatial art complement each other to provide the client with a solution to repair and enhance the courtyard areas of the German embassy in Dublin.
After successive and ongoing renovations of the embassy’s unique architecture with its six sided cluster concept, the courtyard areas required an architectural intervention to enhance the garden and courtyard areas for the staff to use on an everyday basis but also for formal and informal events.
The chosen design solution provides the embassy with a sculptural modular system that allows daylight interaction with dynamic reflective glass and stainless steel elements, provides seating and artificial lighting in different scenarios at night.
The nighttime scenarios can be controlled to create quiet peaceful scenes or spectacular light and sound immersive spatial experiences for the guests.

Client: Federal Office of Foreign Affairs Germany

Illumination of the main avenue of the university hospital

The lighting concept for the main avenue developed by Ruairí O’Brien is the first part of the associated development of the lighting master plan for the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden. The new lighting creates a uniform and contemporary appearance with high-quality light that takes into account the individual requirements of the individual sections of the approximately 500m long main avenue of the clinic and the immediately adjacent areas. In conjunction with the redesign of the listed avenue, an attractive and forward-looking appearance is created.