• Marunouchi Tokio Marine

      Project

      Building type
      Of­fice, Cul­ture
      Location
      Asia, Japan, Tokio
      Project time frame
      2021 — 2025
    • German Health Ministry

      Project

      For the Federal Ministry of Health we designed wall lights made of massive glass blocks. Some of the glass blocks are backed with dichroic color filters and change the perceived color of light depending on the angle of vision. We used blue tones towards the window facade and orange and yellow filters towards the inner back wall.

      Building type
      Mon­u­ment, Cul­ture, Of­fice, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2019 — 2023
    • Dusseldorf Konigsallee

      Project

      A new boulevard running parallel to the famous KÖ is being developed for shops and offices.

      Building type
      Re­tail, Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Düsseldorf
      Project time frame
      2023
    • House of Brandenburg´s History

      Project

      A museum in a former depot. We illuminated the exhibit with only two light channels. Recessed luminaires light the ceilings and show off the cross vaults. Spotlights set the scene for the exhibited objects. As a result of the close cooperation with the exhibit's designer, Prof. Detlef Saalfeld, it was possible to design a top-quality exhibit on a low budget.

      Building type
      Mu­se­um, Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Potsdam
      Project time frame
      2019 — 2023
    • House Haller

      Project

      A world-ranking educational institution came into being in Hamburg. In eight buildings near the Außenalster internationally renowned scientists will do research on current topics and continue to learn together. Their findings will be shared with the public in an auditorium.
      Haller House was the first of these buildings to be completed and already houses scientists and researchers. We illuminated this heritage building with great restraint yet strong accentuation of its architectural structure. One special feature is the staircase lighting. It consists of an arrangement of simple balls of light that are fitted with special LED boards to deliver long-term, high-quality light. Close cooperation with the aspiring and detail-oriented interior designer, Ms. Klatten, made this degree of quality possible.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mon­u­ment
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Hamburg
      Project time frame
      2020 — 2023
    • Montblanc House

      Project

      The facade has 450 DMX-controlled lighting fixtures that offer endless possibilities for setting the scene. Additional spotlights have been positioned in the landscape in invisible niches to illuminate the dark areas of the facade. For special events, there are places to position temporary projectors which can be easily integrated into the control system. The lighting in the museum and its shop is designed to optimally present the writing implements, given their small formats.

      Building type
      Re­tail, Mu­se­um, Cul­ture, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Hamburg
      Project time frame
      2016 — 2022
    • Qatar Pavilion EXPO 2020

      Project

      The lighting design brings out the size and form of the architects' building. To do this, curved linear RGBW luminaires were positioned in parallel about 3.5 meters in front of the facade to spotlight the surfaces. Since pools of water are directly adjacent to these facade areas, underwater lights had to be used. To enable uniform lighting, the curved luminaires at the entrance were also used in a linear floor channel with a glass cover.
      The rooftop surfaces tilting toward the visitors were illuminated with RGBW spots that are mounted on a special tower structure on top of the pavilion.
      This 18-meter-high tower with an open lamellar structure is illuminated by recessed ground luminaires that brighten the inner surfaces and make the structure's silhouette visible from a distance.
      For the interior, the architects designed a curved ceiling into which linear RGBW profiles have been integrated. It was designed so that the luminaires could be mounted in a concealed manner, and the V-shaped structure appears to shine from inside itself, indirectly illuminating the space.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Asia, United Arab Emirates, Dubai
      Project time frame
      2021 — 2022
    • Palace of Berlin – Humboldtforum

      Project

      The lighting design firm Lichtvision was commissioned to develop a concept to illuminate the facades of the Humboldt Forum. The result was an intentional lighting of the facades in terms of intensities of illumination and their distribution.
      The lighting design bathes the building in a uniform light. It accentuates the mighty presence of the Royal Palace in the heart of Berlin. The flat evenness of the light without much shadowing places priority on the building's three-dimensionality over its details so that it appears imposing and grand, especially from a distance. The height of the light points is necessary to avoid casting hard shadows and to create a uniform lighting.
      The designers' lighting specifications were based on standard luminaires. Their design then needed to be integrated into the light columns that also illuminated the exterior areas. KARDORFF was commissioned with achieving these two tasks by using one type of light column.
      First, the positions for the light columns were chosen by Kardorff Ingenieure to ensure that the entrances and views of the palace remained unobstructed. The desired light distribution at the defined positions had to be recalculated for the luminaires that can be used in Selux's LIF light column. The LIF light column was custom designed by Kardorff Ingenieure and has highly complex facade modules which can precisely aim individual LED using many separately adjustable deflective mirrors.
      This made it possible to achieve the same lighting effect even with another product and at other positions than Lichtvision had originally designed.
      As a result, the illumination of the square and the facade have been integrated into one luminaire.

      Building type
      Mon­u­ment, Cul­ture, Mu­se­um, Ur­ban Space, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2018 — 2022
    • Cafe Fossil

      Project

      A restaurant in the Museum of Natural History with a nod to footprints on the ceilings. Most young visitors immediately recognize its symbolism.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Stuttgart
      Project time frame
      2019 — 2021
    • EXPO 2020 German Campus

      Project

      The German pavilion is one of the few that very generously lets in natural light into the interior. We defined and fine-tuned the design for the upper lighting in terms of number of fixtures, distribution and the transmittance of the glass in multiple simulations. The passage of light through clear glass and the breakthrough of direct sunbeams are desired and intentionally made possible. We used films to show how the cones of lights will move through the interior space. Only the center stage is shaded from the spots of sunlight.

      No other pavilion at the EXPO 2020 was given such an intense natural lighting design. It was a statement about the sustainable use of natural light.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Asia, United Arab Emirates, Dubai
      Project time frame
      2019 — 2021
    • House of One

      Project

      On the foundations of the old Petri Church in Berlin, a new sacred building is being built that will unite the three monotheistic world religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam under one roof. It will be a house of encounter, for people of different religions to get to know each other and exchange ideas. Three sacred rooms are arranged around a central domed room. Above this, the building opens up to the city with a loggia and offers views over Berlin.

      For the imposing dome room in the centre of the building, we developed a discreet wall luminaire with several lighting components. This allows us to illuminate the entire room as well as the dome in a balanced way with just a few luminaires. A universal luminaire in the same aesthetics, also developed by us, provides uniform illumination of the circulation areas throughout the building. In the sacred rooms, skylights optimised by us with different characteristics create an appropriate room atmosphere with daylight. At night, this is taken over by the precisely planned room lighting consisting of simple pendant and surface-mounted luminaires.

      Building type
      Mon­u­ment, Cul­ture, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2019 — 2021
    • UAE Pavilion EXPO 2020

      Project

      As the host, the UAE's pavilion is one of the main buildings at the EXPO and one of great significance.
      The design is inspired by a falcon with upward soaring wings, which are fitted with photovoltaics. During the day they are closed and the solar cells tilt toward the sky and at night they open up and display illuminated inner surfaces.
      The entire pavilion is monochrome white and is given structure through light. The free-form ceiling of the vast interior is made legible by the double-curved lines of light and captures the iconographic character of the interior space.
      The adjoining rooms are very complex ranging from underground parking garages, VVIP rooms and underground entrances to a tunnel connecting the pavilion directly with the Royal Pavilion. Not only did the lighting designers illuminate the interior spaces, but also the building's exterior, the gardens and all of the adjacent areas. The details for the installation were extraordinarily intricate and the highest priority was placed on the invisibility of the luminaires.
      Santiago Calatrava wanted only light and structure without any lighting fixtures whatsoever.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Asia, United Arab Emirates, Dubai
      Project time frame
      2016 — 2021
    • Bucerius Artforum

      Project

      Next to Hamburg's City Hall is a special kind of art museum: The Bucerius Kunst Forum does not have its own collection. It hosts temporary exhibits of loaned artworks and thus requires completely flexible lighting. The museum was advised for many years by Harry Mayer on all aspects involving light. He wished that the special spotlights be retained in the new rooms. So we integrated spots into recessed light channels alongside the luminous ceiling panels. We designed the light channels to have full access to the spotlights so that they can be optimally adjusted. A specially designed extruded aluminum sheath integrates the mounting positions for the luminous ceiling panels making it possible to achieve very fine and precise details. A 3-D spatial analysis has found that it is possible to perfectly illuminate every artform and arrangement.

      Building type
      Mu­se­um, Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Hamburg
      Project time frame
      2020
    • Renovation Opera House and Theatre Cologne

      Project

      The historically listed building ensemble consisting of the opera house, theater, and opera terraces, built between 1954 and 1962 according to designs by the architect Wilhelm Riphahn, is slated for general renovation. The project is still in the planning stage. Completion (including the new children`s opera): 2015

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mon­u­ment, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Cologne
      Project time frame
      2015 — 2019
    • Masterplan Autostadt

      Project

      We designed numerous projects in the Autostadt Wolfsburg. The attractions are being updated and redone

      Building type
      In­dus­try, Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Wolfsburg
      Project time frame
      2018
    • Swedish Nationalmuseum

      Project

      With the motto: „Nationalmuseum in a New Light“, the Swedish National Museum reopened its doors in October 2018 after an extensive renovation. The museum, originally built by August Stüler, has been a landmark in Sweden since its opening in 1866 and is the largest art museum in the Nordic region. The combination of daylight and artificial light interfering with the historically inspired colour concept for the interior walls provides a unique museum experience.

      Building type
      Mon­u­ment, Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Sweden, Stockholm
      Project time frame
      2018
    • Apassionata Showpalace

      Project

      The Apassionata Show Palace in Munich is the first element of the new leisure attraction, the Apassionata Park. The Show Palace distinguishes itself with its forceful architectural language that impressively translates the theme of equine adventure into built structures. Light serves as a central component of architectural expression. We were responsible for the facade lighting and the illumination of the foyer with a dynamic lighting installation. 

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Recre­ation, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Munich
      Project time frame
      2017
    • Hall 12 Frankfurt Fair

      Project

      Hall 12 is a new building and the Frankfurt Fair's most modern exhibition hall. It is surrounded by restaurants and a corridor connecting all of the halls. The lighting combines the different atmospheres that need to make an impact, even during the day.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Frankfurt am Main
      Project time frame
      2015 — 2017
    • ZeitHaus – Design Icons

      Project

      The exhibit of the automobile icons has been updated. We used color-changing luminaires that have been calibrated to each automotive paint and its color. As a result, the icons gleam even more impressively.

      Building type
      Mu­se­um, Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Wolfsburg
      Project time frame
      2017
    • Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

      Project

      With only 16 instead of 32 headlights, the facade of the Berlin city-West's historical landmark is illuminated. Thanks to the energy-efficient LED technology, the old tower ruin is set up with an upwards diminishing light intensity. Thus, detrimental scattered light is avoided and the blue windows of the buildings keep their original effect.

      Building type
      Mon­u­ment, Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2016
    • Bugatti Engine

      Project

      An engine as a sculpted work of art: this is how Bugatti presents its W 16 engine in the Premium Clubhouse in Wolfsburg. A central platform with a reflective black surface serves as a pedestal. The engine appears to be almost levitating in the light designed by Kardorff Ingenieure with small recessed luminaires.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Wolfsburg
      Project time frame
      2014
    • Hessen State Museum

      Project

      Reopening following
      general refurbishment of one of the largest museums in Germany. Drawing on state-of-the-art LED technology, the exhibit lighting highlights the diversity of this historic and universal museum by Alfred Messel.

      Building type
      Mon­u­ment, Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Darmstadt
      Project time frame
      2014
    • Ring of Light

      Project

      For the 2014 state garden show in Giessen, artist Monika Goetz placed a lighted ring above a 150 year-old oak. Kardorff Ingenieure assisted the artist in realizing the lighting.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Giessen
      Project time frame
      2014
    • Humboldt Palais

      Project

      With the Humboldt Palais on Hegelplatz in Berlin Mitte, the property developer BUWOG has realized a new construction project offering exclusive residential space. The upscale commercial area on the ground floor will house a complex temporary light/space installation until the tenant has moved in.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2013
    • KunstHalle Deutsche Bank

      Project

      The art gallery in the Deutsche Bank’s Berlin headquarters is an established platform for international contemporary art. Kardorff Ingenieure Lichtplanung designed the new KunstHalle entrance, which with its walls of LED light is visible from far away.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2013
    • Museum for Architectural Drawing

      Project

      The 2015 German Prize for Lighting Design in the category Museum was awarded to Kardorff Ingenieure Lichtplanung.
      This private museum for architectural drawing located in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg not only displays the collection of the Tchoban Foundation, but also the collections of internationally leading cultural institutions.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2013
    • Museum Wiesbaden

      Project

      Since May 2013, the Wiesbaden Museum has displayed its collection of old masters in the remodeled and newly organized south wing. The lighting concept designed by us for the exhibit has been implemented, including the illumination of the individual exhibits.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Wiesbaden
      Project time frame
      2013
    • Lumières – Frederick II

      Project

      A word-light installation for the 300th birthday anniversary of Frederick the Great. Using lasers, the poems of the Prussian king were projected on to the facades of the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Altes Palais. Artistic direction:  Gabriele von Kardorff

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2012
    • Porsche Pavilion

      Project

      With its extraordinary design, the Porsche Pavilion adds to the urban character of the automotive theme park in the car-manufacturing city of Wolfsburg. The sculptural form of the pavilion has been discretely illuminated and integrates itself harmoniously into the landscape of the park and lagoon.
      Honored with the Engineering Award by the German Steelwork Association, 2013 as well as the designation "best architects 14". The ambitious structural design was made by Schlaich Bergermann und Partner from Berlin.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Wolfsburg
      Project time frame
      2012
    • Museum Kunstpalast

      Project

      The innovative lighting concept with LED technology was newly designed and implemented for the foyer and two wings of the museum in Düsseldorf. The glass mosaic window by J.T. Prikker in the foyer has been lit from outside with a projection technique
      using glass filters. Regardless of the sunlight, the window can display its special effect.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Düsseldorf
      Project time frame
      2011
    • AUDI Urban Future Award 2010

      Project

      Within the scope of the architectural biennale, the participants in the first Audi Urban Future Awards in 2010 were exhibited in the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Italy, Venedig
      Project time frame
      2010
    • ZeitHaus

      Project

      An innovative lighting concept was developed for the ZeitHaus in this car-manufacturing city. Mirrored ceilings allow for new angles of perspective for viewing the exhibits and also make the vehicles visible from the outside. LED lamps provide for an optimal and bright illumination of the vehicles. Their placement creates a uniform pattern of light.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Wolfsburg
      Project time frame
      2010
    • The New Museum

      Project

      Another milestone for our team: the lighting of a world heritage site and a large, internationally famous collection. In 2009, after ten years of intensive planning, we were able to handover the realized lighting concept in the restored Neues Museum. The discreet light atmosphere and the soft, yet precise
      illumination of the objects – particularly Nefertiti – are highly admired by museum specialists and visitors. For the overall architecture, David Chipperfield received the 2011 German Architecture Prize, among other recognitions.
       

      Building type
      Mon­u­ment, Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2009
    • Schloss Elmau

      Project

      Steeped in tradition, Schloss Elmau was built in 1916 as a cultural meeting place for friends and artists, and following a fire, redeveloped into a five-star cultural hideaway and several luxury spas. The mood of the light at this special place is influenced by warm gold reflections which are reminiscent of sun and moonlight when walking through the rooms, the four restaurants and the three luxury spas. The likewise warm-toned guestrooms allow for variations in mood with custom-designed
      and easy to use luminaires.

      Building type
      Hos­pi­tal­i­ty, Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Elmau
      Project time frame
      2007
    • Castle Ziesar

      Project

      The old fortress structure is a modern center for culture and administration with the museum for medieval church and cultural history in Brandenburg, the chapel, the Bergfried tower, the local historical museum, the tourist information, the library, and the Ziesar government office.

      Building type
      Mon­u­ment, Cul­ture, Mu­se­um, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Ziesar
      Project time frame
      2006
    • AutoUni Mobile Life Campus

      Project

      With the “Mobile Life Campus”, the Volkswagen AutoUni developed a new type of university. The master plan by HENN Architekten intended for five main buildings, a boarding house, and a communications forum on the 15 hectare-large area. Kardorff Ingenieure designed the artificial and natural lighting.

      Building type
      Of­fice, Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Wolfsburg
      Project time frame
      2005
    • Globushouse Gottorf

      Project

      With its new globe of Gottorf, the new Globe House on the grounds of Gottorf Palace has become a noted international attraction since its opening in 2005.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Gottdorf
      Project time frame
      2005
    • CarDesign Studio Wolfsburg

      Project

      The Future Lab at the Konzernforum in the car-manufacturing city of Wolfsburg thematizes the process of automotive design. Along with current design studies, visitors can gather insights into the multi-facetted work of designers and have the possibility of creating their own car designs using CarDesigner.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Wolfsburg
      Project time frame
      2004
    • Museum for Prehistory and Early History

      Project

      In 2004 the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte was restored and completely rearranged. We designed the lighting for the areas open to the public, including the vitrine lighting.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2004
    • Berlin Picture Gallery

      Project

      The lighting was adapted for a sculpture exhibit in the hall of the Gemäldegalerie.  The light fixture designed by Christoph Sattler and Thomas Albrecht was completed by us in terms of lighting technology. Targeted illumination of the sculptures made the desired three-dimensional presentation of the individual exhibits possible.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um, Lu­mi­naire
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2002
    • St. Canisius’ Church

      Project

      The new church building includes the surrounding urban areas in its spatial design concept. The structure consists of an open and closed cube. The interior design of the church is conceived of as circular.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      2002
    • Pforzheim City Library

      Project

      The center of the city library is formed by the foyer with its “reading eye”. This double ring of luminous ceiling and skylight combines daylight with an artificial light source. The different library levels are oriented around this open central hall.

      Building type
      Cul­ture
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Pforzheim
      Project time frame
      2002
    • Sculpture by Frank Stella

      Project

      The sculpture by Frank Stella was examined using extensive light tests while still in storage at the art dealer’s in order to determine its range of effects. The empirically established light positions were geometrically transferred to the foyer and the lighting fixtures installed before the piece of art was mounted.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Munich
      Project time frame
      2001
    • Pergamon Museum

      Project

      In 1997, a daylight and artificial lighting concept was developed for all the rooms with skylights in the Pergamon Museum. For the first time, a computer simulation of the daylight, including even the falling of shadows on the exhibits, was conducted.

      Building type
      Cul­ture, Mu­se­um
      Location
      Europe, Germany, Berlin
      Project time frame
      1998
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