Lighting for Educational Institution.
Tam Minh works with XAL to offer innovative and highly efficient architectural lighting for schools and universities.
Open-Plan Learning
When it comes to setting the mood of interior spaces in schools, tasserball architects see the decisive factor - beyond just room acoustics - as the interaction of the lighting with the mix of materials and colours of the design concept. Buildings for young children, in particular, should make it easy for the pupils to find their way around and give them a sense of privacy so that they feel at home. Furthermore, modern approaches to education require open-plan learning areas and a degree of transparency between the classrooms.
The Moving School
As a pedagogical concept, this is summed up in the title: The Moving School. It is based on the principle of “everywhere is a learning space”. This means that pupils receive introductory teaching in the group and are then allowed to find their own place to study or work. For this reason, the areas between the classrooms have been designed with generous proportions and equipped with flexible furniture. The task of the architect was to ensure that good lighting is available everywhere. At the same time, the school principal wanted to have a lighting scheme that conveys warmth and “feels like home”.
Feel Good Factor
The approach therefore taken by the architects and lighting planners, to respond to the various spatial situations and requirements, was to use a uniform product family. Special points of focus, such as seating groups, are accentuated by the novel pendant luminaire NOD, which can be tilted and rotated, while integrated recessed luminaires in the wooden ceilings are unobtrusive and restrained in terms of size and shape. The majority of the LITO profiles installed produce both direct and indirect lighting and thus generate an almost intangible feel good factor.
Light and Wood in Harmony
The ability of lighting to do so much more than just ensure the required illuminance has been clearly expressed by the architects, in particular through the skilful combination with the dominant wood surfaces, where the lighting has a significant impact on creating a positive environment.
"We built this school using both light and wood as raw materials - based on our conviction that the light in a school must be really treated as something very special. The indirect light reflected by the wood surfaces is encoded by the natural timber that has been sourced from the local valley, which is probably the precise reason why it generates the feel good factor that is characteristic of this school."
Josef Watschinger, Principal Grundschule St. Martin
tasserball architekten
How do you envision the advanced school of the future?
A school, like every other building, should always reflect the zeitgeist and be matched to contemporary needs, both in terms of building construction and interior equipment. On the other hand, a building must arouse emotions - all the more so when it is animated by children - through the configuration of the rooms, the views inside and out, the material surfaces, the furnishings and both pleasant acoustics and good lighting. The fundamental needs of the pupils, to feel both comfortable and good, as well as have a stimulating environment, will always be crucially important.
XAL
One of the best manufacturers in the lighting world. XAL creates tailor made best-of-the-kind lighting solutions.
The brand have some unique lighting products such as the renown UNICO or the trend setter MOVE IT system, at the same time if offers a wide range of choices for most lighting problems designers encounter for interior spaces.
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