Swiss RE, Munich, Germany

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Architectural LED lighting art.

Swiss Re AG, the world´s second biggest reinsurer, has built a new administrative building in Unterföhring Park in Munich. The gross floor area (GFA) is about 54,000 sq m, and in 2002 Swiss Re moved into the building that was planned by architects Bothe, Richter, Teherani, Hamburg.

 

 

"Blue Cube"
High-tech glass facades dominate the architectural concept. In the entrance areas of the building complex several art objects represent the cultural ambitions of this global player.
The light object “blue cube” was created in cooperation between the “Mayer´sche Hofkunstanstalt München” and OSRAM. It incorporates 36 blue cubes, which include the architectural aspect of glass and focus on an avant-garde light concept, the effect being most impressive at night.

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Lighting installation
In the process the light planners of OSRAM were confronted with two problems:
firstly, blue glass does not spread the light to the observer to the required extent and secondly, it does not correspond to or harmonize with the range of lamps normally used in general lighting.
Therefore blue blacklight-modules were chosen, because the blue color of these LEDs show the clear glass of the cubes in its best light.
Additionally, because of their technical characteristics LEDs are suitable for outdoors and display a long life-time.
The blue cubes prove that you can achieve brilliant successes with very low use of energy and the thermal influence on the glasses is nominal.

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