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Teaching:
Architecture and Lighting Design
Over the coming century sustainable building and the economical usage of limited resources will confront and influence us in the development of our built environment. Light is energy!
The masters programme deals with both daylight and artificial light, covering all aspects from the conception and design of lighting proposals through to their technical realisation. With this expertise the architectural lighting designer can play a major role in the further development of intelligent energy saving buildings. Light is an integral component of architecture and interior design and demands both technical expertise and aesthetic awareness on the part of the designer. Light should allow us to experience our environment, establish an appropiate atmosphere in a room/ outdoor space and create comfortable and healthy living and working conditions. The architectral lighting designer is a new profession with a bright future.
Microlightmachine: the idea
For their first design project the students were required to develop and build a mobile exhibition object/ installation with which the masters programme could present itself at trade fairs or cultural events.This object was called the microlightmachine and was concieved as a work in progress through which the students could experiment with lighting in a controlled "micro" architectural environment. This 3 dimensional walk-in installation provides the students with a "live task" were light, conceptual thinking, ergonomics, economics, technology and building construction are brought together in a complex but understandable whole .
Microlightmachine 01 presentations
The microlightmachine has so far been presented twice to the public. The first prototype was exhibited at the trade fair "BauFach" in Leipzig in October 2001. A re-worked version was presentated at the "Luminale", a lighting culture event in Frankfurt am Main in April 2002.
The Cube
The minimalistic task of planning a cube
3mx3mx3m with one door, one window, one skylight and one artificial light source confronts the student with unending possibilities. One has to deal with universal themes such as inside and outside, material or non-material, the wall and the opening and the interelationship between all of these elements in a dialogue with time and light.
The Shop/ Warehouse
In small groups of two or three persons the students created a lighting design concept for a vacant shop and warehouse space on the edge of the city centre of Wismar. The shop was last used to sell Oriental carpets. With its huge windows right on a busy traffic route and its clear warehouse structure the shop created an ideal stage for a creative treatment of light. The idea was to achieve 3 different room types by means of light, the fun room, the religious room and the living room. The work was open to the public.
Students: 2001/2002
Dana Bandau (Germany)
Paulo de Fraga (Brazil)
Andreas Ermisch (Germany)
Peter Gabelin (Germany)
Kai-Uwe Hinz (Germany)
Sabine Kaiser-Klohs (Germany)
Jorge Khaoim Khawam (Venezuela)
Daniela Pawelski de Fraga (Brazil)
Microlightmachine 02
Students: 2002/2003
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