Projects

Stadion Center, Vienna/AT
Lighting the shopping arena

To make shopping a special experience Ledon developed six innovative LED lighting solutions which feature impressive designs and a rich variety of lighting options.

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Stadion Center, Vienna/AT

Application:	Ceiling luminaire
	Cove luminaire
	High power- and Accentuation illumination
	Icefall backlighting
LED Lighting solutions:	Surface luminaire
	Cove luminaire
	Icefall surface backlight
	Icefall high power line
	Media luminaire
	Media line
	Light line
Architect:	Loistl & Loistl, Wiener Neustadt/AT
Design:	Christian Mikunda, Vienna/AT
Lighting design:	Jürgen Hassler, Make it Real, Hamburg/DE
Controls:	DMX 512
	ArtnetDMX (Video)
Photos:	Bruno Klomfar, Vienna/AT

Vienna has a new shopping mall: it's located between two sports stadiums - the Ernst Happel Stadium and the "Radstadion im Prater" - both of which have a long tradition of staging impressive and exciting events and has 21,000 sqm of floor space, enough for around 70 shops.To make shopping at the mall a special experience, lighting designer Jürgen Hassler created an impressive LED lighting installation. The lighting can create seasonal settings and event-related atmospheres for shoppers.

Customised lighting solutions

Slender LED light strips transform the canopy above the doors into a red sky over the heads of the shoppers, guiding them into the foyer, where they experience the mall's main attraction - a block of ice 23 metres high and one metre thick, through which visitors can ride in a glass-walled lift. Built into the giant icefall are 112 special LED light tiles, each measuring 60 by 60 centimetres, to provide the backlighting. To create dynamic lighting effects and delicate colour sequences that make the ice shimmer in all different colours, the light tiles are divided into four sections, each of which can be separately controlled. In addition, LED light and media chains and concealed LED roof lighting with a total length of more than one kilometre add a sense of dynamic motion to the circulation paths and make the ceiling almost seem to hover.

324 square LED media luminaires distributed over nine sections of the ceiling form the main attraction in terms of lighting technology. Each media luminaire features 144 RGB LEDs, set 50 mm apart and all individually controllable, so that along with light shows, text, images and videos can also be displayed. That makes the ceiling a hive of activity: one minute, swimmers dive across the video tiles from one end of the Stadion Center to the other. The next, the swimmers have given way to flowers in full bloom.