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Novartis Campus Basel
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Exterior view of the office building, which glows from within like a luminous volume. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
Exterior front façade with view towards the main entrance. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
For the lobby area on the ground floor, the key idea was to create seamless linear lighting slots which have been recessed between the wooden disks in an alternating rhythm. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
Within the concept of spatial flow, since the beginning the main objective was to highlight the sloped ceiling by indirect lighting whilst retaining the ceiling untouched. Hence, a special tasklight has been designed for the workstations and sideboards. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
Detailed view of the tasklight, which generates the overall ambient illumination by indirect light and additionally provides an individually controlled direct LED lighting component for the task area. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
The LEDs within the tasklight are arranged in slightly different positions and angles to achieve the optimum of light distribution on the working plane. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
Small meeting rooms are designed as single oval shaped closed-off spaces within the centre part of the office floor. The lighting idea was to design the canopy of the ´Private Rooms´ as a glowing luminaire. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
Custom designed pendant luminaires fill the two-storey high conference space with indirect light, while dimmable halogen light sources provide direct light for the table. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
The pendant luminaire as a sculptural element serves as mediator between the very high double height space and the human level and hence has been significantly lowered for a comfortable illumination of the conference zone. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
The staircases received flush mounted linear lighting slots with opal diffusers in order to emphasise the walls at each end of the stairway. (Photo: Lukas Roth)
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Lighting Designer
Licht Kunst Licht AG Engineers Designers Architects for Illumination Project
Novartis Campus Basel
Basel / Switzerland, 2009 Description
Maki office buildingThe concept of transparency and spatial flow was the main idea of Maki & Associates for the new office building on the Novartis Campus in Basel. A continuous, flexible working space has been created where all ceilings are sloped at different angles and all office floors are interlinked by double height spaces. To stress the open and flowing character, the main lighting objective was to indirectly highlight the ceiling surfaces and to illuminate the building whilst retaining the ceiling untouched. Specially designed luminaires for the open office have been designed to achieve the target of a softly uplit space. |