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BÜRO UND VERWALTUNG • OFFICE BUILDINGS TECHNISCHER AUSBAU • TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

Visualisierung des Eingangsbereichs: Mal umschlängelt die Lichtlinie den Mauersturz, mal durchdringt sie ihn. • Sometimes the luminous line meanders around the wall lintel, sometimes it penetrates it.

Visualisierung: ACC Ziviltechniker GmbH

Befreit von den Veränderungen der 1950er und 1980er Jahre • Freed from the changes of the 1950s and 1980s Visualisierung des Lichtkonzepts innerhalb der Bürolofts • Visualisation of the lighting concept inside the office

H aving got to know each other during a restaurant project in 2018, Peter Klein from diffuse light that, in its colourfulness and intensity, creates a cosy atmosphere. Together
A.C.C. Architects contacted me one year later and invited me to collaborate on the
with the Bjarke Ingels Group, Artemide developed this flexible Alphabet of light system
new Fabricatur project: the commercial building in Vienna, built by Max Fabiani during – its interdisciplinary origins are noticeable during installation: few feed points are nee-
the Belle Époque for the furniture company Portois & Fix, looks back on a past steeped ded and the connectors are magnetic. The dream of every lighting designer!
in history. Like his later works, the office building represents functionalist modernism.
Behind the main building is the former factory wing, with depot and workshops, which Custom-made designs for industrial factory character
should now be carefully freed from subsequent changes made in the past century in
order to return to its original appearance. The comprehensive renovation by A.C.C. Archi- In addition, round special luminaires in various diameters were manufactured for the
tects was to create spacious areas for 18 offices ranging from 95 to 338 square metres, staircase walls to match the factory atmosphere. The office lofts feature an open-plan
with high-quality furnishings and flexibility to suit the future tenant structure. The al- room-in-room concept. As the future tenants were not known at the time, I developed
ready existing lighting concept competed too strongly with the historical building. My a flexible lighting concept: for the task lighting, I chose the INK system from Linea Light.
lighting concept was to become a teammate, because the architects’ colour and material It works like the cable systems used in the past and is stretched from wall to wall, thus
concept was also based on the given “factory architecture”. For me, the dialogue between allowing enormous flexibility. The LED CRI value (describes the colour rendering of ar-
concrete and brick, further enhanced by exposing and treating the surfaces, was particu- tificial lighting) of the office lighting was 80 Ra by default – by making a few phone
larly exciting. My intent was to let the building continue to speak for itself and to create calls to Linea Light’s export manager, I was able to negotiate an increase to close to
an incentive to explore it in its entirety, starting in the entrance area: The literal highlight 100 Ra (the colour rendering of artificial lighting would resemble sunlight). In the end,
is more than just a prelude – dynamically, the curved optoelectronic lighting system runs we achieved 93 Ra, which was a great success given the state of lens technology at the
along the ceiling through all corridors and the entire staircase, thus guiding visitors from time. The workplace lighting is 500 lux. For the indirect illumination with LED strips, I
room to room. At times the luminous line meanders around the wall lintel, at other times planned 2700 Kelvin and for the lighting at the desk 3000 Kelvin; these can be swit-
it penetrates it so that the ribbon traverses the building as a single entity. The presence ched separately to create various room moods. Getting involved in an ongoing project
of the light – independent and yet harmonious – does not make the raw old building ap- of this scale was a completely new experience for me and proved to be challenging –
pear any less essential. In addition, the linear design vocabulary creates a continuous an exciting experience with a coherent result.

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