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Novartis Campus Basel
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During the day lively reflections appear in the fan-fold glazed facade of the laboratory building. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
At night the curtain wall becomes transparent and grants light-filled views of the building's interior. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
All balustrades in the atrium are clad in semi-transparent acrylic panels with a white screen-print. In 80mm x 80mm grids, approx. 10.000 0.4W LEDs are mounted behind these translucent panels and create an absolutely homogenous luminous surface. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
While the sculpture unfolds its stunning impact and physical manifestation by virtue of the LED illumination, the individual floors visually emerge through the surrounding light coves when the balustrades are switched off. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
The space appears to be almost virtual, reminiscent of a computer rendering. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
The imposing atrium contains a recreation area. Sculptural balustrades dominate the spatial impression. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
(Photo: Lukas Roth)
The conference rooms of the representative ground floor are illuminated by large-format, custom-made chandeliers. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
Exposed light sources generate a brilliant sparkle; the directional light component provides atmospheric functional illumination. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
The perforation of the adjacent ceiling panels matches the honey-comb texture of the luminous fields to make a homogenous impression, while the light-active surfaces lend the space visual refreshment. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
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Lighting Designer
Licht Kunst Licht AG Engineers Designers Architects for Illumination Project
Novartis Campus Basel
Basel / Switzerland, 2008 Description
Krischanitz laboratory buildingThe Pharmaceutical Group requested that its new building offers a highquality infrastructure for quotidian research activities yet providing for representative functions. The architect dissolved the paradigm by grouping all spaces around a central atrium. Above the splendid ground floor there are four more storeys with functional laboratories. The lighting designers were also confronted with these conflicting requirements. While the laboratories had to fulfil predominantly technical needs and thus followed standard stipulations the public spaces on the ground floor were to appear exquisite, sumptuous. The interface between the two worlds is the atrium, which is adequately dealt as “art for architecture”. Client
Novartis Pharma AG
Occupant Novartis Pharma AG Architects Architekt Krischanitz Vienna Team leader Licht Kunst Licht: Edwin Smida |