Selux

The pre­vious path­way ligh­ting in the upper pala­tial garden stem­med from 1961 when the Nati­o­nal Hor­ti­cul­tu­ral Exhi­bi­tion was held there. Spheri­cal lumi­nai­res, in fas­hion all over the world at the time, were instal­led in the park grounds for the occa­sion. Almost 60 years later, the Studio DL team was on the look­out for a suit­able exte­rior lumi­naire that would blend har­mo­niously into the his­to­ri­cal sur­roun­dings. ​“While searching, we came across fea­tu­res of the lands­cape plan­ning such as roun­ded walls that mat­ched the round shape of the spheri­cal lumi­nai­res,” explains pro­ject mana­ger Johan­nes Käp­pler. It was the­re­fore thought it would be a good idea to use spheri­cal ligh­ting once again for the new ligh­ting con­cept. The lightness and transpa­rency of the Aira con­vin­ced the plan­ners, who thus opted to con­ti­nue with the tra­di­tion of spheri­cal ligh­ting.

(Juli­ane Eirich)

(Juli­ane Eirich)

With its transpa­rent, almost imma­te­rial dif­fu­ser Aira demon­stra­tes how natu­rally modern ligh­ting can blend into urban envi­ron­ments such as here in the Schloss­gar­ten. The luminaire’s appe­a­rance is dis­tin­guis­hed by its dual Tritec Optic. The golden reflec­tor has a par­ti­cu­larly war­ming effect, which links to the his­to­ri­cally foun­ded sen­sa­tion of com­for­ta­ble out­door ligh­ting and trans­forms the park grounds into a loca­tion where people can simply relax.

(Juli­ane Eirich)

When plan­ning the ligh­ting, besi­des aspects of well-being and tra­di­tion, the needs of nature con­ser­va­tion were also taken into account. Since the Schloss­gar­ten also acts as a habi­tat for bats and hermit beet­les, cre­a­ting insect-friendly ligh­ting was impor­tant for the ligh­ting con­cept. With its effec­tive upward shiel­ding and pre­cise light guid­ance, light pol­lu­tion can be pre­ven­ted using the Aira Tritec optic.

All light points have been inte­gra­ted into a cen­tral, web-based light mana­ge­ment system that ena­bles remote con­trol of exte­rior ligh­ting. Dimmed light can be increa­sed to full lumi­nous inten­sity for safety rea­sons if requi­red. As a result, the new Aira lumi­nai­res have ensu­red an impro­ved fee­ling of safety while enhan­cing qua­lity of urban life for the citi­zens of Stuttg­art.

(Juli­ane Eirich)