The ADAC shines yellow, the concept is green
The ADAC shines yellow, the concept is green.
After a large reconstruction the ADAC service centre South Bavaria at the Sendlinger Tor in the centre of Munich celebrated its reopening.
The modernization of the facade was no simple task, because the 1955 built complex is under protection and every modification had to have permission by the authorities of the city of Munich and the state Bavaria.
Against this background it appears courageous to include an innovative hi-tech illumination concept in the planning.
This discreet and environmentally compatible facade illumination was developed and built by Korona Leuchten GmbH, Augsburg, and OEC AG, Munich.
Both companies als participated together in a research project supported by DBU (German Federal Environmental Foundation). The project on energy efficient architectural lighting was presented at the LICHT 2010 congress in Vienna, Austria.
These luminaries light up only the reveals of the ADAC facade.
The light state-of-the-art LEDs, in this case Philips LUMILEDS, is directed by means of precisely calculated free form mirrors at the surfaces to be illuminated. Nearly all emitted light is used and nothing is wasted.
Commonly used facade illuminations produce a lot of light and send this through apertures or Gobos (masks) on the object, with the effect that the masked out light destroyed. In contrast, we guide all the light by means of precise calculation to the desired areas without having to destroy any light.
The free form mirrors calculated by OEC were fitted by Korona with the necessary electronics and housing and integrated and installed into an outdoor luminaire. These luminaires with their small footprints are installed nearly invisible on the ADAC building with no need to use other, such as opposite buildings.
Now 90 luminaires illuminate the reveals the ADAC windows. Each luminaire runs with 2 LEDs, each of which consumes approx. 2 Watts of electrical power. That means that with approx. 400 Watts the entire external facade is lit up.
This extremely low energy consuming lighting system is almost pollution free and produces marginal CO2. Beyond that it produces no disturbing scattered light (e.g. into windows) and contribute hardly the illumination of the city sky of Munich. We - Korona (www.korona-licht.de) and OEC AG (www.oec.net) - are very proud of it.
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OEC AG is a leading service provider for optical design. We focus on the field of illumination optics, in which we have unique experience and mathematical tools. At the moment our team consists of eight physicists and engineers, who design optical systems until the start of production in close collaboration with the customers. Because our work is rooted in scientific research, we incorporate the most recent findings into our work, and therefore are able to offer novel solutions. Then again we support our customers in product development until serial production, hence understand how to provide the outcome of our work in accordance with industrial standards.
The Korona Leuchten GmbH is a very innovative enterprise of the light industry with emphasis light solutions and special lights for the architecture lighting. On the basis of the project-specific lighting tasks we know our customer whether owner, architect, light planner or manufacturer, of planning over the development of special lights and series lights, whose production up to the assembly serves. 20 years project experience, national and internationally, form the basis for our alive light know-how. Light, in the technical and creative-emotional sense, is our challenge. By co-operation with the OEC AG we connect our formative requirement for light with highest technical expert's assessment, we speak here of „custom-made light “. Precise light tools, with high energetic efficiency and minimum scattered light, become thus also all requirements of the environmental compatibility fair. Of the vision light to the Hightech product light.
