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Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main / Extension
Frankfurt am Main

  • client Jewish Museum, Frankfurt am Main
  • architect Staab Architects, Berlin
  • lighting designer Licht Kunst Licht, Berlin
  • photographer Marc Winkel-Blackmore , KOY + WINKEL Fotografie

In Octo­ber 2020, a modern annex for Jewish his­tory and cul­ture was opened along­side the his­tor­i­cal Roth­schild Palais, which has housed the Jewish Museum in Frank­furt since 1988. At the con­nect­ing point between the old and new build­ings, a spa­cious fore­court has been built.

For this, Israeli artist Ariel Schlesinger has designed an 11-metre high tree sculp­ture called Unti­tled” con­sist­ing of two trees cast in alu­minium – one planted in the ground, the other upside down with its roots pro­trud­ing into the sky. The slim, cylin­dri­cal Lif light column blends har­mo­niously into the spec­tac­u­lar sur­round­ings with­out dom­i­nat­ing the fore­court. This system lumi­naire has been con­fig­ured to handle dif­fer­ent light­ing tasks, with the top ele­ment fitted with a quadru­ple Tritec optic, the light of which ensures pleas­ant gen­eral light­ing. This is sup­ple­mented by a Twinspot module, which accen­tu­ates the façade of the new build­ing by means of pre­cise spot­light­ing. As well as the basic light­ing func­tion, a smart func­tion has been inte­grated into the Lif: four adjustable sur­veil­lance cam­eras blend into the mod­u­lar system, pro­vid­ing secu­rity and safety for cit­i­zens.

  • Cities are lively, vibrant places that are always in motion. Changes in use within communal spaces or multi-functional concepts are transforming urban spaces and with it, the requirements for lighting. As a modular system luminaire in the shape of a slim, cylindrical light column, Lif provides full freedom for the creation of light settings in urban spaces and the smart implementation of these using networked functions. More flexible than any other luminaire, it adapts itself to the widest variety of urban lighting tasks. By day, Lif occupies a reserved role in the cityscape but it is during darkness that it demonstrates its true versatility – depending on the configuration, it can be transformed into a luminaire for squares or pathways, an accent light, or even all of these at once, while at all times remaining a minimalist light column. Lighting tools like the pathway module or the Gobo projector for eyecatching projection effects expand and enhance the scope of planning. New spacer elements in four heights perfectly complement the versatile configuration options of Lif, while smart components like a loudspeaker module, camera, or WiFi element make this light column a key element in smart cities.

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